Any CSS experts out there using IE on the Mac?

[bissatch]

Hi,

Ive been asked at my work to resolve an problem with our website which
IE on the Apple Mac is not displaying properly. Its mainly CSS
background-image properties that are not displaying.

The url is:

http://www.centralscotland.police.uk/
It displays fine on Windows IE5, IE5.5 and IE6 (as well as other
browsers) but it was only after it was launched that it occured that
there was a problem with it displaying in IE on the Mac. If anyone can
have a look and hopefully let me know how to overcome this it would be
much appreciated. Unfortunetely I wasnt able to obtain the Mac IE
version as I dont know how to work a Mac.

Also, to see how the page should look here it is on Windows Firefox :

http://www.martynbissett.co.uk/csp_dump_firefox.jpg
Thanks

Burnsy

[Andy Dingley]

bi******@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

Ive been asked at my work to resolve an problem with our website which
IE on the Apple Mac is not displaying properly.

Don't worry, nothing ever works right on Mac / IE. Fortunately no-one
ever uses it.
Unfortunately there's probably one person who will still use it, but
they're your boss.

Best answer is to educate your boss that Mac/IE really doesn't matter.

If you web search, then you will find lists of known Mac IE issues.
They're not short lists though. Generally things "work" (i.e. they can
be shown working) but they're not robust (they only work under very
narrow constraints). You _can_ usually get most things to work, but the
process is painful (and pointless).

Its mainly CSS
background-image properties that are not displaying.

Try simplifying the path in the url() statement. There's probably poor
support if they're not in the same directory

[Stephen Poley]

On 1 Sep 2006 08:34:18 -0700, bi******@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

>Ive been asked at my work to resolve an problem with our website which
IE on the Apple Mac is not displaying properly. Its mainly CSS
background-image properties that are not displaying.

IE for the Mac has been a problem child for quite a while, and Microsoft
itself is now recommending users to switch to Safari:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/product...ternetexplorer

I really wouldn't worry about background images showing up. If the pages
are readable, that should be sufficient. (Of course if someone can
recommend an easy fix, that's great, but I wouldn't burn the midnight
oil for it.)

--
Stephen Poley

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/

[Wes Groleau]

I'm not a CSS expert, but I have a fetish about simplicity.
I rarely have any CSS that isn't portable, including to IE Mac.

When it isn't portable, it's just as often IE 6/Win or some
other browser.

--
Wes Groleau

I've noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming
intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared
from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with
the release of MS-DOS.
-- Larry DeLuca

[Eric Lindsay]

In article <11**********************@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups .com>,
bi******@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

Hi,

Ive been asked at my work to resolve an problem with our website which
IE on the Apple Mac is not displaying properly. Its mainly CSS
background-image properties that are not displaying.

The url is:

http://www.centralscotland.police.uk/

IE for Mac hasn't been a supported Microsoft product for a fair while,
and isn't even available for download any more. Apple stopped shipping
it with new Mac products a year or so ago, and it wasn't the default
browser even then.

Do you actually have a large population of users trying to use it to
access your site? They would have to be using a Mac more than about 4
years old.

Safari (current default Mac browser) seems to show your site OK.

--
http://www.ericlindsay.com

[Wes Groleau]

bi******@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

Ive been asked at my work to resolve an problem with our website which
IE on the Apple Mac is not displaying properly. Its mainly CSS
background-image properties that are not displaying.

I'd say start by getting rid of that Latest news typing simulator.
On Camino, it's painfully slow--like trying to read by watching
the fingers of someone who takes five seconds to locate the next
letter. On the latest Mac IE (5.2.3), it's even slower.

Furthermore, the page came up looking exactly like Camino,
but everything vanished when the first letter of that news thing
was typed.
--
Wes Groleau

"In the field of language teaching, Method A is the logical
contradiction of Method B: if the assumptions from which
A claims to be derived are correct, then B cannot work,
and vice versa. Yet one colleague is getting excellent
results with A and another is getting comparable results
with B. How is this possible?"
-- Earl W. Stevick

[Markus Ernst]

Andy Dingley schrieb:

Don't worry, nothing ever works right on Mac / IE. Fortunately no-one
ever uses it.
Unfortunately there's probably one person who will still use it, but
they're your boss.

According to my experience, the Mac/IE user is usually the graphic
designer who created the fancy design that you have to implement (and
who insists in seeing the corporate logo in Pantone 349, exactly 4.26
millimeters from the bottom-right corner of the screen).

SCNR
Markus

[Andy Dingley]

Markus Ernst wrote:

According to my experience, the Mac/IE user is usually the graphic
designer who created the fancy design that you have to implement

Not IMHE. _Real_ Mac users wouldn't be seen dead using IE. Some of them
would never have used it at all, just because it's a M$ product. The
ones I get trouble with are IE / Windows users who borrow a Mac
(usually ancient) to test out the site and automatically select their
familiar (sic) browser.

Graphic dezyners are usually occcupied wondering why their design looks
so dull on a PC with different gamma.