designMode on IE6 Mac

[Larry]

I'm currently using designMode in a page, and it's been working for IE6
on Windows, but I'm hearing complaints that it's not working on IE6 on
Mac. I had done some research on this before deciding to use
designMode and I thought I found that it would work on the Mac as well.
Unfortunately, I don't have a Mac to test on, so I just thought I'd
put the question out here.

Should it work on Mac and perhaps I just need to get ahold of a Mac and
fiddle with the code a little or was I mistaken in the first place that
it would work on Mac?

[ASM]

Larry wrote:

I'm currently using designMode in a page, and it's been working for IE6
on Windows, but I'm hearing complaints that it's not working on IE6 on
Mac.
That's new ? IE6 and its bugs has been transfered on Mac ?
I had done some research on this before deciding to use
designMode and I thought I found that it would work on the Mac as well.
Unfortunately, I don't have a Mac to test on, so I just thought I'd
put the question out here.
What is designMode ?
(any way what is important is content and not clothes)
Should it work on Mac and perhaps I just need to get ahold of a Mac and
fiddle with the code a little or was I mistaken in the first place that
it would work on Mac?

Without an url to see ... how to know ?

To test on others browsers :

http://www.danvine.com/iecapture/ (safari)
http://browsershots.org/ free,
http://browsercam.com/ not free,
--
Stephane Moriaux et son [moins] vieux Mac

[Larry]

"designMode" lets you build a kind of WYSIWYG editor inside an HTML
page. Once it is set to "on", you can use JavaScript to change things
like font and color (usually in response to the user clicking on
buttons).

I really would like this editor to work on Mac, too.

[Martin Honnen]

Larry wrote:

I'm currently using designMode in a page, and it's been working for IE6
on Windows, but I'm hearing complaints that it's not working on IE6 on
Mac.

There is no IE 6 for the Mac but IE 5 on the Mac does not support
editable iframes created by setting designMode to on. Only Mozilla
(since 1.4) or Firefox on the Mac should support that.
--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Kevin Newman]

Martin Honnen wrote:

There is no IE 6 for the Mac but IE 5 on the Mac does not support
editable iframes created by setting designMode to on. Only Mozilla
(since 1.4) or Firefox on the Mac should support that.

There was never a standalone release of IE 6 on Mac, but MSN for Mac is
powered by an engine that reports itself as MSIE 6 (though it is not the
same as the windows version).

I'm not sure if that version supported design mode (though I doubt it).

Kevin N.

[Larry]

The end-user apparently claims that they have IE 6 on a Mac, although I
am only hearing this second hand, so I was not able to ask how they
know that. Any suggestions on how I can find out for sure if there's
any version of IE that will support design mode? Also, is it certain
that Firefox supports it? I don't want to get the end users to
download something unless I have a reasonable idea that it will work.