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Problems with site on mac platform

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goaganesha

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Dec 4, 2001
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Hi,

I'm making a site using Dreamweaver 4 on a PC. Fonts(arial 14px) are defined in a css and it is optimized for a screen resolution of 1024x768. I use an autostretch table to stretch the pages horizontally when visitors have a resolution which is larger than 1024px.

I have tested it in netscape 4.5 and 6.1
and in int.explorer 5 and 6.
There were no problems at all and when I set my screen to 600x800, horizontal scrollbars appear but everything stays in place. When I set my resolution to 1280x1024 everything stretches the way it should be.

Today I went to someone with a mac using int.explorer 4.5 and a 15" screen set to 600x800. The whole site looked terrible! The fonttype changed to something pixelated in the middle of a sentence, sliced pictures were spread all over the screen and the bottom part of my top frame wasn't visible.

What could be causing this problem? Is it that int.explorer 4.5 doesn't support the autostretch function, is it the mac platform or is it the screen resolution?

Is there a way to validate the HTML Dreamweaver generates, cause I'm not an HTML expert at all? I used layout view to draw all tables and cells and defined whether they should be fixed or autostretch and what dimensions they should have.

What more can I do to prevent this from happening?


Thanx for your help.
regards, goaganesha
 
"Today I went to someone with a mac using int.explorer 4.5"

THAT'S your problem!
Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.
 
Hi,

Thanx for your reply.
Is it possible to fix the problems anyway or shouldn't i worry about it since not many people use old browsers?

regards,goaganesha
 
It may be possible to fix the problem, but it would probably take way more work than it's worth. There are so few people using versions of IE less than 5.5 that it simply isn't worth the trouble to support them any more. Let them upgrade to a decent version. My boss refuses to waste my time or his trying to code around the deficiences of the Mac or IE5.0 or less. He's about to go the same way with NS4.7. Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.
 
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