You might have to refresh the page, esp if you have anything that depends on script that executes on page load. To get the emulator: and select the device that you want to emulate. The best part is if you like the browser's developer tools (Chrome, Firefox), you can use them while emulating. They aren't perfect but are good enough that can get you almost all of the way before testing on an actual device. Testing with real hardware is part of the price of doing business.īoth Chrome and Firefox now have built-in emulators.
If you are writing a website and you need to verify that it looks proper on a given device, then you need to test your website on that actual device. But since it is a simulator, it is possible that not every single bit of functionality will be exactly the same as using a real iOS device. This may work for general layout testing. If you run Safari in the simulator, you can view your website and it should appear the same as it would on a real device. The iPhone/iPad simulator that comes with Xcode includes Safari.
