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    • CommentAuthorMike Weiss
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2007
     
    I just finished the layout for a design but it's horrible in IE:mac 5.2. In every other browser and platform, it looks exactly the same. I designed it exactly how my graphic designing client want's it.

    I haven't cleaned up the code at all, but here's a link: http://www.weissmike.com/989design

    Should I worry about it?
    • CommentAuthorwundertype
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2007
     
    http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/internetexplorer/internetexplorer.aspx?pid=internetexplorer

    I hope the link above works.
    Microsoft themselves recommend to use Safari on the Mac.
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      CommentAuthorOutsider
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2007
     
    It's unsupported by MS and has been for a while. I don't even test it unless someone tells me it's really broken. The problem is that it doesn't read conditional comments and the hacks for it are really really bad.
    • CommentAuthorMike Weiss
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2007
     
    I should have mentioned that I already knew it was unsupported, but I figured that was common knowledge. Even unsupported, it's still loaded on all of my college Macs, and people unfamiliar with Macs will go strait to the familiar little e.
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      CommentAuthorLobsterMan
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2007
     
    I don't know any mac user that uses IE
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      CommentAuthorgnome
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2007
     
    I have one person. They complained when I replaced the images-in-tables-javascript-powered-drop-down-menu with something simple, and elegant, that worked in FireFox and Opera, unlike the other one. I suggested (nicely) that the person start using supported software.
    • CommentAuthorMike Weiss
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2007
     
    Posted By: LobsterManI don't know any mac user that uses IE


    Me either, but I know many Windows users that occasionally use Macs. They typically go to IE first.
    • CommentAuthorSunRise
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2007 edited by SunRise on the 13th February 2007 at 14:31:02 EST
     
    I think it really important for your designs to look good on different computers, but IE for mac is extinct...I bet there are more people that use Netscape than IE for mac...it doesn't even come on macs anymore. I deleted it from my ibook when i got it over two years ago because it was wasting my hard drive space...

    bottom line...no need to worry

    sidenote...I downloaded IE for my mac and tested it out ... not even apple.com works and yahoo.com doesn't work either.

    here's the screen shots:I wish there were a way to upload pix because I have screen shots


    angry

    anyway back the coding (I'm writing a Java app right now)
    • CommentAuthorzvineyard
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2007
     
    For the most part, I would tell the client to use supported software. How many people surfing your page will be using Macs anyway: maybe 10%. How many of that 10% will be using IE, maybe 5%. Those numbers are a tiny percentage of surfers.

    bakie
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      CommentAuthoryugnats
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2007
     
    Posted By: zvineyardHow many of that 10% will be using IE, maybe 5%. Those numbers are a tiny percentage of surfers.

    if the site gets 100k visitors obviously that means anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000 people can't view it properly- personally i'm not sure if i agree those numbers are 'tiny'.

    that being said i wasn't even aware i.e. was available for mac. its not on my G4 with OSX 10.4.8 that i can see although i'm still a mac virgin wink
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      CommentAuthorJJenZz
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007
     
    Posted By: Mike WeissDo you design for IE:mac 5.2?

    Nope
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      CommentAuthorgnome
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007 edited by gnome on the 14th February 2007 at 09:05:12 EST
     
    Yugnats: you made a slight math error. 5% of 10% of 100k is only 500 people, or 0.5%. And I think that saying that 5% of Mac users use IE is a stretch.
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      CommentAuthoryugnats
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2007
     
    Posted By: gnomeYugnats: you made a slight math error. 5% of 10% of 100k is only 500 people, or 0.5%. And I think that saying that 5% of Mac users use IE is a stretch.


    woops, i meant a million visitors, thanks GNome.
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    So far in 2007 (and the latter half of 2006), I haven't had ANY visitors on IE on Mac.

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