At 1:42 pm +0100 29/10/04, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>Paul Boag wrote:
>
>>Moving away from Netscape 4 at the moment... How many of you test on
>>MACS and if so which browsers?
>>
>bleargh. in some ways the Mac is even more annoying than Netscape 4, because
>it has that vile beast IE 5.2, which looks like a duck, quacks like a
>duck, but isn't
>a duck. We test IE5.2, Safari, Firefox and Opera, for what its worth,
>and our current setup
>has both an IE-specific bit of CSS (for the Windows) and an IE5.2onMac
>specific bit of CSS
>which only works because the browser is dumb. I imagine all the rest of
>you use the
>same tricks.
>
>Things like having two columns, each tagged at 50% wide, not working
>as expected is really annoying, when four columns at 25% each *do* work.
I develop our pages on a mac with no real problems or work-rounds -
what's wrong with them? If you use a template that works and you know
what you're doing you shouldn't need to test every page on every
browser. It would be like checking the recipe every time you make
pastry - well maybe that's not a good example, come to think of it...
And I have been using Mozilla for years. If Microsoft had stopped
developing IE6 at the same time it stopped with IE5 that would be
pretty dumb too.
Now I'm going to attack the poor people attending my course this afternoon.
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