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what version of safari is the iphone os using? (as of 12/14/2009)

Answer 1

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point your iPhone here to see the browser tag:

http://www.iwebtool.com/browser%5Fdetails

Neil N 2009-12-14 18:27:37

Answer 2

+1 A:

Point your iPhone here, the link provided by Neil doesn't seem to be working for me. Link

Update. I accessed the website with my itouch and this is the response:

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (ipod: U;CPU iPhone OS 2_2 like Mac OS X: es_es) AppleWebKit/525.18.1
Browser Name/Version: M_webkit/3.1.1

So I'm assuming it's safari 3.1.1

johnnyArt 2009-12-14 18:35:20

Are you sure your iPod Touch is running the very latest OS version?

sventech 2009-12-14 18:46:14

Nope, I'm not sure It's running the very latest OS version.But it was purchased just a few months ago and it's the best and most informative answer I can give him.

johnnyArt 2009-12-14 18:57:53

From here: http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/OptimizingforSafarioniPhone/OptimizingforSafarioniPhone.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006517-SW3 , that user agent string would seem to indicate iPhone OS 2.x (also, the iPhone OS 2_2 should be a clue). My iPhone running OS 3.1.2 responds with AppleWebKit/528.18 Version/4.0 Mobile/7D11 Safari/528.16.

Brad Larson 2009-12-14 21:45:53

There are subtle differences, but iPhone OS 3.0 shares much in common with Snow Leopard. We were told that iPhone OS 3.0's mobile Safari was based around Safari 4.0, although there are a few elements that are slightly different.

Brad Larson 2009-12-14 21:53:06

So based on these last comments here, it looks like it is "Safari 4 Mobile" or, in other words, a mobile version of Safari 4. It'd be nice if it had full support of the canvas tag's text rendering capabilities.

Neo42 2009-12-16 14:46:23

Answer 3

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You should test your project with the iPhone simulator and on the actual devices you are preparing to deploy to.

As you mentioned, testing on a different platform is a guaranteed headache.

Niels Castle 2009-12-14 18:46:01

I'm effectively trying to find out if the Safari on mac or pc is acceptable to develop against (for the most part) because I can't seem to find a webkit dom reference that is for the mobile version of Safari, specifically. Also, I don't always have a mac at my finger tips when I have a little bit of coding time.

Neo42 2009-12-16 14:49:26

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