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I'm always surprised when I read comments about how the Firefox devtools offer the best developer experience. Every single one of these new features (except se

I'm always surprised when I read comments about how the Firefox devtools offer the best developer experience. Every single one of these new features (except searching the dom via CSS selectors or regex) have been available in Safari's Web Inspector for OS X for at least a year. Plus, I think the UI is more thought out and easy to use in Safari. Can someone explain what Safari's Web Inspector is lacking?

acomjean 12y ago
publicity. I've met quite a few developers that really like the safari dev tools. If your not developing on mac though I don't know how good your experience is (and linux is a non starter)
rhizome 12y ago
Can someone explain what Safari's Web Inspector is lacking? It has a platform limitation.
_puk 12y ago
Now that Chrome and Safari inspectors have started to diverge significantly I find the Chrome inspector far superior. It just feels like more time has been invested in it. Only issue I have is the fact it changes more or less every release, leading to a day or so of re-learning how to do certain tasks. Does Safari support source-maps yet?
- mmuro 12y ago
  Yes, Safari supports source maps (has for a while).
darkhorn 12y ago
It doesn't run on PCs.
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
  Which is a shame. Apple should bring back Windows Safari.
  - darkhorn 12y ago
    Would be good to bring it back to Windows, so that we can test our web sites. However last time when I was using it on Windows it was making my hard drive to make strange noises. I think that it was using my hard disk constantly.
iSnow 12y ago
Even as a Mac user, Safari completely has vanished from my radar. Apple seems too slow to adopt the latest web technologies and Safari to me is a completely lackluster browser. It has neither the market share of IE nor the raw speed of Chrome nor the versatility and configurability of Firefox. Safari does not work on anything but MacOS and iOS, so developing for it requires additional testing.

acomjean 12y ago

publicity. I've met quite a few developers that really like the safari dev tools. If your not developing on mac though I don't know how good your experience is (and linux is a non starter)

rhizome 12y ago

Can someone explain what Safari's Web Inspector is lacking? It has a platform limitation.

_puk 12y ago

Now that Chrome and Safari inspectors have started to diverge significantly I find the Chrome inspector far superior. It just feels like more time has been invested in it. Only issue I have is the fact it changes more or less every release, leading to a day or so of re-learning how to do certain tasks. Does Safari support source-maps yet?

mmuro 12y ago
Yes, Safari supports source maps (has for a while).

darkhorn 12y ago

It doesn't run on PCs.

TazeTSchnitzel 12y ago
Which is a shame. Apple should bring back Windows Safari.
- darkhorn 12y ago
  Would be good to bring it back to Windows, so that we can test our web sites. However last time when I was using it on Windows it was making my hard drive to make strange noises. I think that it was using my hard disk constantly.

iSnow 12y ago

Even as a Mac user, Safari completely has vanished from my radar. Apple seems too slow to adopt the latest web technologies and Safari to me is a completely lackluster browser. It has neither the market share of IE nor the raw speed of Chrome nor the versatility and configurability of Firefox. Safari does not work on anything but MacOS and iOS, so developing for it requires additional testing.