[DM-MUG] Mac/PC Question

[Bailey Ford]

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I agree. Apple's browser is very standards conforming - much more so 
than Internet Explorer. Unless they are doing something totally strange 
on that site, you could probably get the mac to show the same stuff 
just by telling Safari to claim that it is a windows machine running 
IE. This might sound complicated, but it really isn't. You just turn on 
the debug menu and there's a menu item in there for changing the User 
Agent. Just select Windows IE 6 in that list and voila! Hmmm... 
probably the easiest way to turn on that debug menu is to go download 
Safari enhancer.

If you are not afraid to type ;-), you can enable the debug menu 
yourself. Quit Safari and type this into the terminal:
	defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1
The next time you launch Safari, the debug menu will be there. Just 
type the same command with a 0 instead of a 1 to turn it back off.

-bailey

On Apr 24, 2004, at 2:48 PM, Donald Brown wrote:

> I'd want to know what that website is.  First, it's possible to write 
> a website to give different content based on the browser or the 
> platform, so it could have been a pure fraud.  It's also possible for 
> sloppy programmers to do things that only work on Windows IE 6 or 
> later.
>
> If there's a difference, it's not that the Mac is faulty, it's that 
> the website is faulty.  And were I'd there, I think I'd have gotten 
> the distinct odor of rodent.
>
> Donald
>
> On Apr 24, 2004, at 2:38 PM, HWelch7625@aol.com wrote:
>
>> A person announced at a school meeting that a friend had put a Mac 
>> and a PC side by side for a test. They both went to the same web 
>> site, but when they came up, the Mac did not have the same 
>> information. Therefore, Macs can't produce the same info.
>>
>>  What would cause this? Different browsers?
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>
>>  Holly Welch

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I agree. Apple's browser is very standards conforming - much more so
than Internet Explorer. Unless they are doing something totally
strange on that site, you could probably get the mac to show the same
stuff just by telling Safari to claim that it is a windows machine
running IE. This might sound complicated, but it really isn't. You
just turn on the debug menu and there's a menu item in there for
changing the User Agent. Just select Windows IE 6 in that list and
voila! Hmmm... probably the easiest way to turn on that debug menu is
to go download Safari enhancer. 


If you are not afraid to type ;-), you can enable the debug menu
yourself. Quit Safari and type this into the terminal: 

	<fontfamily><param>Verdana</param><color><param>0000,0000,6666</param><x-tad-bigger>defaults
write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1</x-tad-bigger></color></fontfamily>

The next time you launch Safari, the debug menu will be there. Just
type the same command with a 0 instead of a 1 to turn it back off. 


-bailey


On Apr 24, 2004, at 2:48 PM, Donald Brown wrote:


<excerpt>I'd want to know what that website is.  First, it's possible
to write a website to give different content based on the browser or
the platform, so it could have been a pure fraud.  It's also possible
for sloppy programmers to do things that only work on Windows IE 6 or
later.


If there's a difference, it's not that the Mac is faulty, it's that
the website is faulty.  And were I'd there, I think I'd have gotten
the distinct odor of rodent.


Donald


On Apr 24, 2004, at 2:38 PM, HWelch7625@aol.com wrote:


<excerpt>A person announced at a school meeting that a friend had put
a Mac and a PC side by side for a test. They both went to the same web
site, but when they came up, the Mac did not have the same
information. Therefore, Macs can't produce the same info.


 What would cause this? Different browsers?


 Thanks,


 Holly Welch

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