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How to create a site that is compatible on Mac and PC browsers

I have just completed a workable version of my web site in HTML without the use of a Freeware or Commercial program for coding. None of the coding is fancy, just simple HTML (Tables, and tags, etc.)

The site works for PC based computers but not on Mac products.

Is there a site or link that anyone knows of that will serve as a simple tutorial for the compatibility of HTML on Macs and PC?
Apr 13 '10 #1
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RedSon
5,000 Expert 4TB
HTML is independent of the platform. If the computer visiting your site is a mac or a PC is irrelevant.

You need to look at browser compatibility. What are the browsers you are using to test your site? Safari and Internet Explorer?
Apr 13 '10 #2
@RedSon
IE for the IBM Compatible, MacBook is the other system.
Apr 13 '10 #3
RedSon
5,000 Expert 4TB
"MacBook" is not a browser, it is a product sold by Apple.
Apr 13 '10 #4
@RedSon
Safari, I do not know the version (she has had it for about a year)
Apr 13 '10 #5
Niheel
2,460 Expert Mod 2GB
@richpoor
The best way is to use the site on both browsers and make sure that it is functional on both, and then you can dive a bit deeper and make sure all the site design elements are the same.

You'll have to do a lot of googling, the information is really spread across a lot of different resources.
Apr 13 '10 #6
RedSon
5,000 Expert 4TB
Okay then, I'm glad we've established now what browsers you are working with.

I'll let drhowardfine take over from here.

In the meantime you can check out this link: http://bytes.com/topic/html-css/answ...omplete-answer
Apr 13 '10 #7
@kub365
Thanks RedSon.

Are you suggesting I put both systems side by side and keep tring different codes to check the compatibility?
Apr 13 '10 #8
drhowarddrfine
7,435 Expert 4TB
@richpoor
IE for the IBM Compatible, MacBook is the other system.
Never, ever use IE to initially test a web page. Always, always use anything else first. The Safari browser will display what you wrote. We have no way of knowing for sure what IE is going to do.

Without a link, or the complete markup, anything we say beyond that is just a wild guess.
Apr 13 '10 #9
RedSon
5,000 Expert 4TB
Yea, that's not a bad idea.
Apr 13 '10 #10
Niheel
2,460 Expert Mod 2GB
@richpoor
You can install safari on your windows system to make it easier and just compare both of them on one system. But that's the gist of it. IE, Mozilla, Google, Apple all have different quirks about them.

Use simple code in designing your site, it increases the chances of developing a site that is compatible across all browser.
Apr 13 '10 #11
@richpoor
I may have misrepresented what I used to develop the code. I am using IE but the code is typed into the machine using Wordpad, stored as text then renamed as an HTML file.

Sorry about the misstatment.
Apr 13 '10 #12
RedSon
5,000 Expert 4TB
Rich,

It doesnt matter what you used to develop the markup. If you are using IE and you get it to look right in IE, it will look bad in every other browser, because IE does not display the markup properly.

Create it using firefox of safari first then you can munge your markup to work with IE.
Apr 13 '10 #13
drhowarddrfine
7,435 Expert 4TB
I would not use WordPad either. I have not looked at it in many years, and I don't know if you've set it up differently, but it inserts unnecessary and invalid markup into the final page. I strongly suggest using Notepad or some other text-only editor.
Apr 13 '10 #14
@drhowarddrfine
Thanks.

I'll go hide my head in the sand again -- with Notepad!

I appreciate your time, again thanks.
Apr 13 '10 #15
Dormilich
8,658 Expert Mod 8TB
recommendation for windows users: Notepad++
Apr 13 '10 #16
Frinavale
9,735 Expert Mod 8TB
Notepad++ is pretty cool. It's free and you can use it as an editor for many different languages. The nice thing about it for HTML and CSS implementation is that it uses colours etc to help you identify things.

If I were you I'd run my page through the w3 Markup Validation Service and make sure that all of my HTML and CSS was valid.

After fixing all of the validation bugs, then go back and test your website in all of the browsers that you wish to support. It's likely, at this point, that most of them will display the website consistently (the same way as the rest of them)...except for Internet Explorer. Once you have it displaying consistently in all browsers (except IE) go back and make the necessary changes to your CSS (and if need be the HTML as well) in order to get things to display correctly in IE....then retest everything.

-Frinny
Apr 13 '10 #17
@Dormilich
Actually, I have not used a forum before and I was as nervious as a teen on my first date.

My typing came out sideways. I typed Wordpad when I meant Notepad. That is why I decided it might be best if I just hope the problem would go away without me doing anything to the code --you know like the TV that fixes itself, maybe I'm too old, but that is what use to happen to TVs, cars, etc.

Anyway, great suggestions about Notepad++ and the validation service.

On Notepad++ do I just downlowad the binary files?? Too much to fit in my pin sized head.
Apr 13 '10 #18
Frinavale
9,735 Expert Mod 8TB
Yup just download the binary files to install the application.
It's pretty simple actually :)

Fixing validation errors generated by the w3 validator service is usually not so simple for first time users ;)
Apr 13 '10 #19
@Frinavale
Ran the validator. I am sure this is the path for achieving a higher level of, well enough of that stuff.

Thanks for our assistance.

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