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Asked: 2026-05-19T22:10:20+00:00

I have a client that I am doing a very small project for. His

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I have a client that I am doing a very small project for. His company uses Macs exclusively. I rarely use Mac and don’t have one for testing.

If I use jQuery and test it with FireFox on Windows, can I assume it will also work for FireFox for Mac? How about other Mac browsers?

I am considering just not using much JS/Ajax, but don’t want to shoot myself in the foot. Has anyone got a lot of jQuery / Mac compatibility experience?

Edit: A quick note:

Yes, I am aware that JavaScript (and thus jQuery) is a browser-based language.

However, while I haven’t done much JavaScript lately (hence the question) I do remember having any number of problems back in the day with browser versions on the same OS, and even more problems across multiple OS.

Don’t want to date myself too much, but think back in the day, debugging complex JavaScript in multiple versions of IE and (shudder) Netscape across multiple OS.

Anyway, after some testing, it appears to work just fine =o)

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  1. Editorial Team

    A browser’s JavaScript engine is expected to behave the same on whatever platform the browser is run on, because the JS engine doesn’t really interact much with the OS; it just lives in the browser process. So no, you shouldn’t encounter Mac-specific problems with your scripts.

    Safari 5.1.7 is still available for Windows if you need to test in that. For any new visitors to this post: Safari 6 is not available for Windows.

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