IE 5.2 Mac *dead?*
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- hUtChhOuSe
I've made a site compatible with all browsers except the latest Explorer for Mac.
Should I worry about it? I thought they were dropping Explorer from the Mac platform...
- rasko40
unfortunately there are still lamers out there that use it.. but fuck them.
- sparker0
they're dropping support and development for it, yes.
you can continue using it for as long as you like.
- kev_charlton0
I have the same problem, for some reason the person using IE on his mac can't see rollover images or the flash in the website....
tis well annoying...
Does anyone know any ways round this or why its happening?
- nospacebar0
Sounds like a typical developer to me.
"I can't get it to work with this platform, so that platform is obsolete."
- SteveJobs0
"for some reason the person using IE on his mac can't see rollover images or the flash in the website....
Does anyone know any ways round this or why its happening?"
kill him?
- hUtChhOuSe0
I was trying to float some columns using CSS. Seems IE Mac doesn't support this... :o(
Had to settle for a table in the end.
Boo...
- ********0
Oh that's nothing.
I'm busy redevloping a whole site because it doesn't "print out properly".If I'd known it was such a huge issue I'd have sold them a fucking brochure.
- imakedesign0
moth, why not just print an alternative file??
- ********0
Because it's not coded in such a way to allow for an alternative file unless I make it.
- AMFA0
why dont you use an alternate css file just for printing using media=print ?
what shows up on screen is different that what will be printed.
- UndoUndo0
Oh that's nothing.
I'm busy redevloping a whole site because it doesn't "print out properly".If I'd known it was such a huge issue I'd have sold them a fucking brochure.
moth
(Mar 8 05, 09:13)...................................
ha ha
reminds me of a client who told me 2 yrs ago that pages that scaled the full width was an Internet Standard
ha ha ..piss yr pants. i did when i asked him "what like autotrader?" Yes he replied
- jkosoy0
Ouch, nospacebar. Ouch.
In his defense, Mac/IE is sort of like the last of an ugly species: Let's keep it alive because we feel bad, but its beyond saving so don't be too sad when its gone.
- ********0
Not enough control to do the CSS thing.. He wants it to print exactly as it looks on screen.
If I could shrink the entire page by 10% that would be grand - but that function doesn't exist.
Users have "background" printing turned off by default too - so all my BG colours have to be JPG's.
Sucks ass.
- AMFA0
no dude, thats exactly what you can use that for....
in the print one, specify a background gif or jpg, and make the layout a little smaller.
- ********0
I'd rather charge the c*** for a rebuild actually.
- heavyt0
That browser stopped gettign updates 3-4 years ago.
I am amazed, but people still use it for some god-foresaken reason.
There is a mac IE filter for CSS, called the mid-pass filter (i think).
I used that to pass it an alt stylesheet.
It really eats ass to have to do that becuase it doesnt support floats very well.
Lets all agree that you cannot develop to make ppages look "perfect" in every browser.
I like to support 99% and if i can get the last 1% -great. If not, too bad.
If you are going to be a dick and say that anyone that doesnt design for old browsers is being lame, i want to know how you design for NN3?
That broswer shows up in web stats, so you cant dismiss that either.
My feeling is that i can develop with a bunch of nested tables and write the same script 8 times and use broswer detection...but the scope of my project doesnt usually allow me to.
I think that Zeldman has it figured out - http://www.zeldman.com
site looks good on modern browsers, and doesnt look like total sh!t on old ones.TR1