Re: FN-FORUM: Sitecheck - Updating my website - using CSS

date posted 13th March 2008 16:23

Does anyone worry about IE5 (Mac) anymore? I know that none of the sites
I maintain ever get any visitors using IE5.

Lee Rickler
Director - Point and Stare - pointandstare.com
Web Design and Development for over 11 years

Nigel Page wrote:
> Whatever, you think of IE - most of your users will probably view your web
> site with it, and on a Windows platform.
>
> They won't understand why it doesn't work and will just think that it's
> badly designed/built.
>
> Get hold of an old cheap PC with Windows, install IE8 beta (which can
> emulate IE7), add MS Virtual PC (free) or VMWare and install another version
> of Windows with IE6. If you upgrade to an Intel Mac you should be able to
> run VMWare and then Windows on that.
>
> Also, remember IE5 on Mac is not the same as the Windows version and may
> render differently. IE8 beta, as I said is fully standards compliant.
>
> Nigel.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Deaville" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 5:04 PM
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Sitecheck - Updating my website - using CSS
>
>
> - why does it not
> work, also I keep hearing that internet explorer is basically rubbish at
> displaying css, so I didnšt really expect it to work, is this not true
>
> Can anyone point me to some relevant articles then please ...
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