Title: MAC vs. PC
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# MAC vs. PC

 *  [tmarfuta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tmarfuta/)
 * (@tmarfuta)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mac-vs-pc/)
 * First off, I am brand NEW to WordPress and to php. I managed to get a blog up
   on my site and it looks just fine on my PC, but has problems on MACs.
 * The background color (Web safe) is differnt in my header from the rest of the
   page, and the margin around the blog itself is cutting into the text on our first
   post.
 * I don’t have a clue where to start because I work on a PC and, like I said, it
   looks fine here. Please help!

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 *  [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mac-vs-pc/#post-357819)
 * Without a link, people will be hard pressed to guess which of the myriad of IE
   bugs are causing the site to render poorly on the mac (not to say that Safari
   doesn’t have it’s quirks)
 *  Thread Starter [tmarfuta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tmarfuta/)
 * (@tmarfuta)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mac-vs-pc/#post-357836)
 * Wow…how stupid can one be!
 * [http://www.siteplanning.com/appiesnet/wordpress/](http://www.siteplanning.com/appiesnet/wordpress/)
 * Thanks for responding…I’m new to all of this–obviously!
 *  [kickass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kickass/)
 * (@kickass)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mac-vs-pc/#post-357850)
 * For the record, re color you’ll never get things to look identical on both PC
   and Mac since Mac is always a few shades lighter on everything.
 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mac-vs-pc/#post-357858)
 * Actually, if your PC and Mac are set to matched gamma ramps, you should get pretty
   close to identical results. I don’t recall the precise difference, and once you
   color correct devices it could all vary to some level. 😉
 *  Thread Starter [tmarfuta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tmarfuta/)
 * (@tmarfuta)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mac-vs-pc/#post-357869)
 * Thanks for the replies, kickass and davidchait. I don’t have a MAC in front of
   me right now, I’m only going by what two other MAC users have told me tonight.
   The color problem appears to be two separate shades of red on the same page, 
   between the background color on the blog and the background color on the header
   image, a .jpg I created in Photoshop, with the same “web safe” background color/
   code I used for the background color on the blog. Ugh!
 * Any guesses on why the border is cutting into the text on the first post, in 
   Safari?
 *  [arearugs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arearugs/)
 * (@arearugs)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mac-vs-pc/#post-357881)
 * its an issues with the CSS, there are universally compatible CSS available on
   the net made by CSS protagonists.
 * btw, i am browsing your site using OPERA browser and the box is screwed up. the
   bottom line of the square is right below the “week. The core of our show is to
   support efforts being made to” line.
 * rex
 *  [kickass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kickass/)
 * (@kickass)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mac-vs-pc/#post-358184)
 * davidchait, that’s true of geeks who know how to do those kinds of things, but
   I’m a webdesigner who has to assume that 95% of the people out there who look
   at sites I design don’t even know they *have* options they can change in the 
   browser or opsys they use (IE6, the broken browser OR Safari, the sometimes bizarre
   browser) . . . so though I have the gamma set in my main desktop pc, I don’t 
   in the mac I use for testing, nor in the pc laptop I use for testing.
 * tmarfuta, you might find this helpful while you’re debugging:
    [http://www.fundisom.com/g5/](http://www.fundisom.com/g5/)
   It’s a mac screenshot generator. Though it’s not going to point up all problems(
   like the time a transparent div was covering my links in IEMac and they didn’t
   work!) for little spacing issues and suchlike this can do the trick. I used to
   use it before I bought my mac. Also you might try this search in Google:
 * site:archivist.incutio.com Safari border
 * “Safari border” are the keywords, you can plug in others. This is the archive
   for the css-discuss maillist, where these types of problems are routinely routed.
 *  [jimhere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimhere/)
 * (@jimhere)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mac-vs-pc/#post-358187)
 * The red looks the same everywhere to me (mac osX 10.4.3, safari)…

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