I want to have Safari 1.3, 2.0 and 3.0 all installed on the same (Intel)
Mac Mini. Does anyone else successfully have such a configuration?
Here's what I've done so far.
Firstly, the Mac Mini came with 2.0 already installed (Safari/419.3).
That's what it shows when I do About -> Safari and is also what shows up
when I alert navigator.userAgent from the address bar.
What I did to get Safari 1.3, is I got access to an old Mac, made a zip
archive of the Safari app folder, then downloaded it to my new Mac
desktop. When I ran the app (from the desktop), OSX seemed to
automatically realize it's a PPC app and do the right thing. When I do
About -> Safari, it shows up properly as v1.3.2 (312.6). BUT, when I
alert the userAgent string from the address bar, it shows 419.3 (from
Safari 2).
It seems like both apps are sharing the same userAgent string. If I
installed 3.0 now, then I imagine all 3 of them would show the same
userAgent.
I'm not sufficiently proficient on the Mac to figure out if there's
anything I can do about this. There doesn't seem to be profiles like
there is with Firefox, and if there were then I don't know if it would
solve the problem anyway.
Any ideas? Other than having a bunch of batch files on my desktop which
change the (global) Safari user agent string ? I could run the 1.3 batch
file before I run the 1.3 app. Run the 2.0 batch file before I run the
2.0 Safari, etc etc. It's not ideal, but it's the only solution I can
think of right now.
If it helps, I only use this Mac for testing web pages. I don't need it
to behave nicely as a default browser or anything like that.
~dd
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