bi******@yahoo. co.uk wrote:
I have launched my new website and having viewing it on the Mac
Internet Explorer, have found that it isnt displaying my
background-image property. Is this a common bug / occurance?
It was the best of browsers, it was the worst of browsers....
Mac IE is completely obsolete and pretty much dead and buried now.
Don't waste time trying to fix for it or you can waste a _lot_ of
effort on an evil piece of junk that no-one has used for a long time.
When it first released it was hailed as a good browser, because of its
advanced level of support for CSS features that few other browsers of
its day had implemented. The downside of it is that it has always been
buggy, particularly for parsing the input documents. In general it
_can_ work and demonstrate a feature, but it's fussy about the precise
syntax used. In practice it's unreliable and minor matters like the
amount of whitespace, or the type of quote character used, can cause it
to ignore sections of the document (even though these are perfectly
valid variations).
Validate your documents first, then make sure that teh syntax you've
used is the simplest permitted by the spec. Hack around with different
quote chars (or none ?) in the CSS url() statement. I can't remember
exactly what Mac IE wants, but it's likely one of those.
