Accessing iOS Safari Web Inspector from Windows Machine
It appears to require Safari 6, which has not been released for Windows. Regarding the unavailability of Safari 6 on Windows, Apple has stated "Safari 6 is available for Mountain Lion and Lion. Safari 5 continues to be available for Windows."
I regularly use weinre. It basically runs a webserver that in turn acts as an inspector-enhanced proxy to browse webpages and websites. The inspector can be started by adding a script to your page or running a bookmarklet.
weinre is a debugger for web pages, like FireBug (for FireFox) and Web Inspector (for WebKit-based browsers), except it's designed to work remotely, and in particular, to allow you debug web pages on a mobile device such as a phone.
To install it, you will need NodeJS and NPM (included with NodeJS). You will also need a WebKit-based browser on the desktop/receiver end (Safari, Google Chrome, or Chromium). It should work on Windows, OSX, and Linux.
- Official page: https://people.apache.org/~pmuellr/weinre/
- Documentation & Getting Started: https://people.apache.org/~pmuellr/weinre/docs/latest/
- NPM Package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/weinre
If you already have NodeJS and NPM installed, you can install and run it with:
npm i -g weinre
weinre
# Go to the URL that it outputs for instructions to use it
UPDATE:
@EvAlex has pointed out another tool very similar to Weinre called Vorlon.js. It is pluggable and supports viewing/switching between the inspector of multiple devices simultaneously.
Setup Vorlon on Windows
npm i -g vorlon
vorlon
Verify Vorlon is Running
Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:1337
Setup Ngrok
- Download Ngrok: https://ngrok.com/download
- Unzip it
- Open a command prompt:
Start -> Search -> cmd - Navigate to ngrok.exe:
cd <ngrok_path_where_ngrok.exe is stored>/ - Run it:
ngrok.exe http <port>e.g.ngrok.exe http 1337
Ngrok provides a url e.g. https://0ad8c32f.ngrok.io -> localhost:1337
Copy and paste the ngrok url into your webpage.
<script src="https://0ad8c32f.ngrok.io/vorlon.js"></script>
Navigate to the page under test on your device(s):
http://thepageiwanttotest.com/testing123
References
- Vorlon Reference: http://vorlonjs.com/#getting-started
- Ngrok Reference: https://ngrok.com/download
Stumbled upon this blog which shows how to debug iOS web app on Windows using a stndalone app by Telerik called AppBuilder. You're supposed to create an account on their platform before using it and it has a 30 day trial.
I've used this on windows 7 64 bit for both vanilla web apps and Phonegap apps both on iPad with iOS 7.1, and it works. You get web development tools very similar to those in Chrome.
I have found a great tool called GapDebug
that's was the right solution for me :)