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Positioning on Mac

sersun posted this at 19:41 — 5th February 2002.

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Unfortunately, I don't have my own Mac to test pages, and I just found out we have a Mac related problem. I am using absolute positioning to place a "tab" graphic near the header of this page (Where it says "Web Hosting" on red).

http://www.modwest.com/webhosting/index.phtml

Looks great in Netscape4, mozilla, and IE for PC, but for some reason the tab displays twice as far down the page on Macs. Why?

Why does Mac interpret positioning so differently?

Any help is greatly appreciated, since this is a live website Smiling

Thanks!

sersun

detox posted this at 23:09 — 5th February 2002.

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taken from the applescriptsourcebook:

Quote: Unfortunately, the latest browsers from Netscape and Microsoft, as well as other developers, do not handle absolute positioning correctly.

taken from the codeexperts.com:

Quote: I ran into a problem with absolute positioning. In some cases it appears that you must add in the sizes of the margins to get correct positioning...

there are workarounds, I would honestly check your stats and see just how many visits are by mac ie or ns etc. Sometimes the headache is not worth the reward......

I'll see what I can find.

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