Mac page display

paulsim

Hi there

I have a program that works fine on PCs, but when people try to access from a Mac it displays wrongly.

Are there any basic rules to ensure good display on Mac.

All pages are in a table - but no table dimensions are used; so on a PC the outer table fills the screen.

Then there is text, forms and other tables.

Does a table have to be given either percentage or no of pixels for Mac?

Site can be seen at www.mancomp.co.nz

Any help appreciated.

Paul

drew010

I think it has to do more with the browser. Windows ships with IE6 which doesnt really follow all the html/css standards. I'm viewing the site in Mozilla and I would guess I'm having the same problem as users of mac. The table starts way to the right and down. I think the problem is with the body tag:
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" background="./images/yellow1.gif" text="#000000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="760" marginheight="420">
namely marginwidth and marginheight. Try getting rid of both of those so its:
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" background="./images/yellow1.gif" text="#000000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0">

paulsim

Originally posted by drew010
I think it has to do more with the browser. Windows ships with IE6 which doesnt really follow all the html/css standards. I'm viewing the site in Mozilla and I would guess I'm having the same problem as users of mac. The table starts way to the right and down. I think the problem is with the body tag:
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" background="./images/yellow1.gif" text="#000000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="760" marginheight="420">
namely marginwidth and marginheight. Try getting rid of both of those so its:
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" background="./images/yellow1.gif" text="#000000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0">

Thanks for the very quick reply.

I have changed that. Would you be so kind to re-look and see if it looks better with Mozilla.

Paul

drew010

yes, now its centered and starts at the top of the page.
another problem I found in non IE browser is the link to "The MacTest Programme".
When I click it, the url is
http://www.mancomp.co.nz/.%5Cmactest%5Cmactest-index.php
which gives a 404
The html is
<a href=".\mactest\mactest-index.php">The MacTest Programme </a>
I think you should try
<a href="/mactest/mactest-index.php">The MacTest Programme </a>

paulsim

Originally posted by drew010
yes, now its centered and starts at the top of the page.
another problem I found in non IE browser is the link to "The MacTest Programme".
When I click it, the url is
http://www.mancomp.co.nz/.%5Cmactest%5Cmactest-index.php
which gives a 404
The html is
<a href=".\mactest\mactest-index.php">The MacTest Programme </a>
I think you should try
<a href="/mactest/mactest-index.php">The MacTest Programme </a>

Yes - I had a few of those - IE does not mind in a lot of cases. I think I have changed them all.

Very many thanks again - saved my life!

Paul