I have always designed sites on PC platform, but now work for a company using MAC’s. It is getting quite frustrating when viewing the pages produced in standard logic. The MAC however defies this factor.
My main problem is the structure of tables, what could be done in a few seconds for PC, is really taking much time with the MAC. A typical example of my problems are really related to % properties. For example I designed a site with a width value of 100% and to my attention it is activating scrollbars, when logically it should not.
Secondally we have vertical percentages. If you were to have a table at 100% divided by three, set the value for two fo the tables to 50px and 50px, leaving the last blank, on PC this would span 100%. But on the MAC, each of the tables is not abiding by this rule. Can anyone please put this to rest and either help me out or point me in the right direction fo useful resources,
Its really a situational thing I think. Mac browsers do tend to handle tables differently (they were never all that reliable cross-platform OR cross-browser) especially now with safari. What you need to do is try to keep things as simple as humanly possible then pretty much just handle issues seperately ‘per situation.’ Its hard to pinpoint it to just do this and it will be fine! since each problem has its own circumstances and issues needing to be resolved. There usually isnt one solution for all. The more you work with development on the mac side, though, you’ll start to realize what works and what doesn’t. Best practice is to be just as conservative as possible in the design process which will ease your pain in the development side.
If you want to shoot out an example Im sure we could figure out a solution.
Yes I agree with you, it takes time, to realise the problems with different browsers, I am well aware. But when your in a company dealing with projects, the last thing you want to do is spend days investigating silly litle problems. It is unfortunate that I dont have MAC at home to allow me the time to do such testing on. Basically my intention is to have a good understanding of tables for MAC. for example if I required 3 rows and 1 column at 100% height. I gave the top row a value of 50px, and the second a value of 100px, just for arguments sake. In PC format the last row would span the rest of the length right. However with MAC OS9 I find that the tables are not kept fixed height, but rather expand equally in values despite providing the table with a fixed value of 10px and 100px. I know this occurs as I give each table a different background colour so you can see the effects.
I understand this is a very silly example but accounts for a lot when designing a particular site. I am guessing that MAC does not allow or does not fill in the gaps like PC. I appreciate your reply, but please understand Its not like I can experiment loads in work. You most likely know that the smallest of things can totally ruin something and equally take hours to find that small mistake. I would really like a good resource for such problems. If you have any for me that would be fantastic. Thank you for your time.
hey…can you try mine?..I just built a portfolio for myself and an employer complained the the movie wasn’t loading? …page was black past the splash screen…
and thanks