I have a developed an Applet which works fine on Chrome/IE/FF on Windows. I am not expecting any users for Safari on Windows but there might be the odd user who may be on a Mac.
As of now, I don’t have a Mac to test my applet on.
I was wondering how similar is the behaviour of Safari on Windows is as compared to Safari on a Mac as far as Java Applets go. I was wondering if testing on Safari on Windows would be good enough or do I need to buy a Mac. I know that I can never be sure without actually testing on Mac, but I am on a tight budget for this and am willing to take a risk if it’s not too big.
UPDATE: The applet accesses local devices.
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Since the Safari browser for Windows is horribly outdated (the latest download is from May 9, 2012), it is not a reliable browser to use as test and compare with the Mac version. On a project I am working on, we found there where to many differences between the Mac / iPad version of safari and the Windows version, so we decided it was worth to buy a Mac (also for debugging).
I don’t think this is the right place for this question, but I am not sure.
However, you can use BrowserStack. It gives you a VM of your desired OS/Browser to work with.
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