The Webmistress posted this at 14:17 — 8th January 2002.
I have a friend (yes I do have one!) who runs a computer repair & maintenance company and they are just getting into MAC's (someone's got to - joke 
) and they want a website specificaly for MAC users and they are worried that a normal website will not work properly. I have told them that this isn't the case but is there a list of things that don't work on MAC's that I can provide to him and then say I wouldn't have used them anyway???
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
Wil posted this at 16:17 — 8th January 2002.
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Is the website going to interact with various Applications on the system? Is it going to take advantage of server-side scripting languages?
I think the latest web browsers are all up to scratch whatever platform you're using. They all support the same standards - hence the whole idea of the WWW.
I suppose I should be asking what platform is this web site going to be running on? I can't see a problem with this at all though. It would go against the nature of the web to program code only for IE/Win32 instead of IE/Mac. They should both support the same standards - theoreticaly speaking.
Cheers
- wil
The Webmistress posted this at 16:20 — 8th January 2002.
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It is just a general website for the company promoting the MAC repairs/maintenance side of the business but they are worried about it being seen ok by MAC users for some reason and want reassurance that you don't have to build a special website just for them!
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
mmi posted this at 16:25 — 8th January 2002.
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hey Julia - I looked around and here's all I could find:
a similar (but unanswered) Q: http://archives.hwg.org/hwg-basics/200002170944968.SM00409@jim
a short list: http://www.macworld.com/2000/09/how-to/reconcilable.html
an email address:
[email protected]
mmy strategy at this point would be to write to some or all of these people and see if they can help find the Holy List of Cross-Platform Web Display Incompatibilities - ya might wanna bring along this guy:
:gandalf:
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Wil posted this at 17:10 — 8th January 2002.
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Well, the answer lies in the Web Browser and *not* the operating system.
What web browser will the site be viewed on? What features does Mac browser versions of IE not support? I think that all the latest browsers are the same accross the board - linux, mac and intel.
Have you taken a look at the MS web site? The Netscape, Opera, Mozilla web sites?
Cheers
- wil
Suzanne posted this at 18:38 — 8th January 2002.
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If the site is coded to standards, you shouldn't have any problems. However, that said, there are some oddities, notably that some work arounds that people use to force users to see things don't work - ha ha!
Also, viruses don't work. ha ha!
So no, you don't need to build two sites, but you do need to test on both platforms. It's not any particular thing that causes problems, so much as a combination of things causing problems.
P.S. Start at macfixit.com for some indoctrination into the WORLD OF THE MAC! And check out the new iMac! And the 14" iBook! BEAUTIFUL!
K, I'm done.
mmi posted this at 19:20 — 8th January 2002.
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hey - I think Suzanne's right - you get problems when using ad hoc measures to "push" things around where you want them on a pc display - of course there's the gamma thing, too - seems like if you can demonstrate a consistent x-platform display to this client, all should be well
there's probably a number of small annoyances - e.g., I can't find a character entity for fractions that displays on a Mac
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