Moderator
James Huff
(@macmanx)
Volunteer Moderator
Technically, WordPress is compatible. The question is, “Is your theme compatible with IE?” If you would like us to help, we will need the URL to your blog.
Also, Mac IE was discontinued over three years ago. I strongly recommend that you use another browser.
Hello,
I use Safari, but I know PC users use IE. I’m hoping that what you see on your PC is okay!
http://www.markmallett.com/wordpress/?cat=2
mm:
your site looks great in IE 6.o. on a PC and in Firefox, but you are right: it is a wreck in IE 5.o on a mac. The two render pages VERY differently, BTW). I would not worry too much about IE users on the macintosh platform; this from Microsoft’s own website:
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER FOR MAC USERS
In June 2003, the Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit announced that Internet Explorer for Mac would undergo no further development, and support would cease in 2005. In accordance with published support lifecycle policies, Microsoft will end support for Internet Explorer for Mac on December 31st, 2005, and will provide no further security or performance updates.
Additionally, as of January 31st, 2006, Internet Explorer for the Mac will no longer be available for download from Mactopia. It is recommended that Macintosh users migrate to more recent web browsing technologies such as Apple’s Safari.
I have found discussions and articles found at positioniseverything.net to be EXTREMELY helpful in working out the tricks to get css to look correctly on every browser/platform, but sometimes I give up on ie/mac myself. Now I am glad that I can with a clear conscious! Now if I could only forget about those 35 million aol users out there.
Finally, if you really must see what your site looks like in all browsers, google around for services that will take “screenshots” for you, there are many services that do this for a fee, but it seems that I came across one that does it for free…
Moderator
James Huff
(@macmanx)
Volunteer Moderator
As stated above, it looks great in PC IE 6.0.2, but aweful in Mac IE 5.2.3. Fixing your XHTML and CSS validation issues may improve the situation, but it would be better to forget that Mac IE had ever existed and do your best to convert any stragglers.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.markmallett.com/wordpress/
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://www.markmallett.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/quentin/style.css
Perhaps I will turn a blind eye and pretend it never existed.
What IE for Mac? — cough.
I believe the free service mentioned above may be browsershots: http://browsershots.org/
yep vkaryl, that is it thanks for reminder. I will bookmark it this time.
