Chromium as a fake Safari on iPhone
To test iPhone WebApp on Linux we don’t have Safari…
We can use Safari for Windows with Wine, or Safari in a Windows virtual machine with VMWare Server or VirtualBox…
But we can also simply use a browser with the same core engine than Safari ie Webkit : Epiphany ou Chromium. Then we have just to change the user-agent to forge a fake Safari on iPhone. If you search on Google, you’ll find very exotic solution : someone uses hexadecimal editor to modify the Chromium binary files… like using an atomic bomb against a fly) : the solution is much easier, you have just to pass through the –user-agent parameter to chromium like this :
chromium-browser --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_2 like Mac OS X; fr-fr) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7D11 Safari/528.16"