Safari Developer Menu

Something that is worth posting anyway:

As a mac user its really really REALLY annoying when you come across some random website on Safari which says something along these lines:

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"'Your web browser is out of date/not supported/etc." 

You need to be running the latest version of Internet explorer/Firefox blah blah blah

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One can note that Safari, which uses Webkit as a layout engine, is more or less WC3 compliant. 

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compared to Trident(the MSIE one)which actually doesnt really care about WC3

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Gecko(Firefox) is relatively okay and most webpages are designed for both Trident and Gecko layouts.

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anyway after trying this hack you can "pretend" to be MSIE or Firefox (so the websites dont make noise)

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1. Quit safari (Cmd +Q)

2. Run Terminal(use spotlight to find it, or navigate to /Applications/Utilities/ )

3. Type this code:

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

4. Press enter, Restart Safari

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you should See a nice new menu called 'Develop'

has a lot of nice features:

but this one in particular is handy:

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now you don't have to switch to another browser just because some website doesn't like Safari

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simply fool the site into thinking Safari is Firefox(I dont recommend fooling the site to think Safari is MSIE, you'll end up with a lot of problems, like ActiveX controls and other nonsense)

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and it should do the trick

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*note that some sites still will not work with Webkit... unfortunately... 

in that case the "open page with:" command works quite well, just use some other browser like Camino.