[DM-MUG] Mac/PC Question

[Ray Bowler]

At 3:38 PM -0400 on 4/24/04, HWelch7625@aol.com wrote about [DM-MUG] 
Mac/PC Question:
>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

Holly,

What information was different? What was the web site? There are web 
sites which are written with MicroSoft software which will not 
display properly because they use Windoze specific code which does 
not comply with industry standards and at times are written (I think) 
to exclude anything except a PC running the latest Internet explored. 
Which version of which browsers? Did they try with anything except IE 
on the PC? There are several out there so they should check with 
those.  Some older versions of browsers will not display cascading 
style sheets properly while recent versions of IE, Netscape and and 
Safari will. Even on a PC two different browsers can show things 
differently.  As someone else noted in one response sloppy 
programming will show things differently. The few times I have 
written web sites I have carefully tested that it would work 
correctly with several browsers (both PC and Mac).

You have some Mac hating people around so beware of them
-- 
Ray

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