MAC's and websites [resolved]

[mrstuff68]

I have gotten access to a Mac machine and tried to look at my site, and boy was it all messed up. I have frames on my site, css, and several javascripts running. What are the limitations of Mac machines? What can I do to have everything work as it does on a windows machine?

Any insite would be greatly appreciated.

[bulletrick]

I think the browser is the issue here, not the machine.

[mrstuff68]

I have absolutely no expierence with mac's and in fact it was the first time that I actually used one. What browsers are used on mac's? What can I do to better track down this issue?

[bulletrick]

Try this: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html

[penagate]

Surely you noticed what browser you were using when you used it :/

New Macs come with Safari, which is actaully a rather decent browser. It runs off a patched version of the KHTML rendering engine. There is also Firefox for Mac, Camino (also uses Gecko but with a different UI), and of course IE/Mac which is just as bad as IE/Win.

If your site looks messed up in these browsers (excluding IE) I'd say that it is a fault with your code. So, try and develop the site in a more standards-compliant browser (I guess you use Windows, so that would mean something like Firefox or Opera) and then, if you must, get it to work in IE afterwards.

[mrstuff68]

Come to think of it I think it was Safari. I always use Firefox personally and usually if the code works in firefox then it should work in IE and others.

[penagate]

That's usually true, as long as you do not use any newer CSS rules or anything it should also work in IE.

Safari's standards support is on a par with Firefox, so if you can get it to work in Firefox first then hack it a bit to work in Safari it should be good.

Many of us don't have both platforms available so it makes it a bit hard but if you still have access to the Mac make the best of it.

[mrstuff68]

Thanks for the advice guys.