[BjornW]

I'm happy that Microsoft provides these VM's and I hope other vendors (Hi Apple!) would provide VM's as well. So we can make sure the web is accessible for anyone regardless the browser they use.

[pierrec]

Wishful thinking. They actually make an effort to make sure OSX is not virtualizable onto other platforms. We recently had a pretty long-winded discussion about this very problem:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9644773

[cptskippy]

That would totally go against Apple's business model. If Apple provided VMs for developers to test with they would lose 92.76%* of their Enterprise market.

* I made that number up.

[lucianmarin]

That's not a problem. You can find WebKit powered browsers on any platform. It's the same WebKit used in Safari on OS X and iOS.

[aikah]

> You can find WebKit powered browsers on any platform

lol what? The latest Safari version on Windows is 5.x and isn't even distributed officially by Apple anymore. And Safari is a bit more than just Webkit.

> That's not a problem

Yes it is.Without a mac, one can't test websites on Safari.

[lucianmarin]

http://midori-browser.org/

[ChrisLTD]

Now that Chrome is using Blink, what's the best WebKit option on Windows?

[dankohn1]

PhantomJS for headless testing? http://phantomjs.org/

[serve_yay]

Yeah, I'm not sure what lucianmarin is talking about.