site looks broken in mac. why? [Archive]

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njdboy

January 6th, 2004, 03:31 PM

I created this site for a friend:
http://www.seadreaminc.com

I don't own a mac, but when viewed on a mac I am told the tables appear broken and its not all nice as it is on a pc. No page is really that viewable on a mac. Why is that? I know there may be some font css issues between mac and pc, and I might have to change my css code to accomodate a mac, but why the table tags appearing broken, choppy? I used the usual TD, TR, etc. Any help would be appreciated.

nobody

January 8th, 2004, 08:14 AM

What browser was he using? If it was Safari, I've heard that there are a lot of problems with it. Don't know the specifics, but it's a starting point.

njdboy

January 8th, 2004, 12:35 PM

yeah I think it was Safari, but it was also viewed on a mac in IE.

jimhere

January 8th, 2004, 09:04 PM

Looks OK in my IE, but Safari is strange. I've found you have to be very literal for Safari (like not assuming a spacer will hold a cell open... you have to tell each spacer specifically how many pixels wide, especially if there's a table background image involved).
Stupid Safari. It IS only version 1 I suppose...

Mik3

February 10th, 2004, 01:10 PM

Safari, Mozilla, and Netscape seem to mess up pages.

February 10th, 2004, 02:07 PM

Originally posted by t3h t3rminator
Safari, Mozilla, and Netscape seem to mess up pages.

as I've said before, typically this is because the site is using broken IE-only code, or tables for layout, which is (IMO) incorrect.

if Mozilla messes it up, it's 99.9% likely that the page is wrong, or that the w3c recommendations take no stand on what is right/wrong.