My site looks different when viewed with explorer on pc's and apple computers. What are the steps i should take to make sure my site is crossplatform compatible? What are crossplatform issues with html? I'm mostly having trouble with spacing of the texts and tables. thank you for your help
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help with crossplatform issues!!
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how are you spacing the text/tables? what fonts are you specifying for the text (for example, macs and pcs don't always share the same fonts)? what browsers are we discussing. A big part of the issue (not to lock myself into one opinion 
is if you are using IE on the pc and Netscape on the Mac.
There is an IE port for the mac, but if cross browser compatibility is a serious issue, install as many of the target broswers on your machine as possible.
From that point you can natively troubleshoot your own code. This will really help determine, for example, if it truly is a mac to pc issue (looks fine in IE on a pc but bad on IE for a mac).
You have a link that we can take a look at? "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission." - Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper
is if you are using IE on the pc and Netscape on the Mac. There is an IE port for the mac, but if cross browser compatibility is a serious issue, install as many of the target broswers on your machine as possible.
From that point you can natively troubleshoot your own code. This will really help determine, for example, if it truly is a mac to pc issue (looks fine in IE on a pc but bad on IE for a mac).
You have a link that we can take a look at? "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission." - Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper
crazyboybert
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I know this will probably just confuse the issue but its worth mentioning. Ive found one problem with positioning layers/div for IE on the mac...
any links inside a layer/div which rests on top of another layer will only work if the layer/div has a specified z:index and all other layers do to. of course the layer with the link must be specified as the top layer for it to work. Very annoying when building an absolutely positioned page with lots of layers....
any links inside a layer/div which rests on top of another layer will only work if the layer/div has a specified z:index and all other layers do to. of course the layer with the link must be specified as the top layer for it to work. Very annoying when building an absolutely positioned page with lots of layers....
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Well, i'm using IE on both pc and mac. I coded the site on pc. and when i looked at it on mac's, it looked not what i intended on pc. there could be a crossbrowser problem as well, but since i'm using IE on both of the platforms, crossplatform issue is what i'm concerned with. the url for the website i'm working on is...
the page that i'm having crossplatform trouble is...
I don't know if you have both pc and mac available to you, but you'll notice that the page looks very different on the two platforms. thank you for your help!
the page that i'm having crossplatform trouble is...
I don't know if you have both pc and mac available to you, but you'll notice that the page looks very different on the two platforms. thank you for your help!
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