Sweet! Finally I can debug in OS X

Category: Technology - Inventions & Innovation Tags: browser wars , statistics , vmware , artician , osx

Wednesday February 11th, 2009

I'm constantly on the look out for new ways in which I can debug web design better. These days it's getting harder and harder to do that since the browser war and the operating system war has started to expand. Today it looks like we will never again see the days of the single browser dominating the Internet. Artician in particular sees one fifth of it's traffic come from the OS X platform, 2% from Linux, and the rest from various flavors of Windows. When we look at browsers the stats get even more colorful. Firefox dominates with 64% of the Artician market share. Internet Explorer comes in at a shrinking 16% and Safari continues to expand it's growing 9%.

When we combine the OS and the Browser into pairs all of a sudden all majorities are lost. Firefox on Windows come in at just under 50% followed by IE on Windows with 16% and then Firefox and Safari split the OS X share at 13% and 8%.

So having to be able to support OS X when the buy in for the operating system includes the hardware is a deal breaker for us since we are a startup. Luckily the VMWare community comes through with a way to run OS X in VMWare.

So here it is, Artician on OS X 10.5.5. :)