IE, Netscape differences on Mac

[Myron Turner]

I've develped a web site:

http://www.printmakers.mb.ca

which I've tested successfully in a variety of browsers and versions
on the PC and which works on the Mac when using Netscape. But it
fails on the Mac when using IE or Safari. It's been some time since
I've had a chance to view the site on different Mac brosers. But as I
recall, in IE the first page displays o.k. but the links don't work,
e.g:

<a href="history.html"
onmouseover="popup(event, 4); closeallbut(4);"
onmouseout="close_popup(4)"

MPA</a>

In Safari, the links work but the page doesn't display correctly.

Is there a listing of javascript functions which handle differently
on the different Mac browsers?


Thanks,

Myron Turner

Myron Turner
www.room535.org

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

[...] But as I recall, in IE the first page displays o.k. but the
links don't work,

#define "don't work"

e.g:

<a href="history.html"
onmouseover="popup(event, 4); closeallbut(4);"
onmouseout="close_popup(4)"

I do hope that popup() is not creating a popup window.

In Safari, the links work but the page doesn't display correctly.

#define correctly

Is there a listing of javascript functions which handle differently
on the different Mac browsers?

I do not know. But your problem is that popup(), closeallbut() and
close_popup() are not built-in functions at all. They may contain
proprietary referencing which may be the reason why there are problems.
Post the code of those functions instead, possibly an URL of a public
Web site with a test case.


PointedEars

 

[Myron Turner]

[...] But as I recall, in IE the first page displays o.k. but the
links don't work,

#define "don't work"

e.g:

<a href="history.html"
onmouseover="popup(event, 4); closeallbut(4);"
onmouseout="close_popup(4)"

I do hope that popup() is not creating a popup window.

No--it's not sa separate window; it's simply a small information
window that appears on screen when the mouse runs over the link.

#define correctly


I do not know. But your problem is that popup(), closeallbut() and
close_popup() are not built-in functions at all. They may contain
proprietary referencing which may be the reason why there are problems.

PointedEars

First, thank you for your reply. Since posting my question last week,
I've had a chance to work out some of the problems, and they were not
in fact the result of incmpatible javascript functions but rather
differences in how javascript on Mac and Windows handle CSS.

First, I found a web site which enabled me to load multiple versions
of Internet Exploorer onto Win2000 (http://www.quirksmode.org/) and
created a version of the web site which was compatible with IE4,
figuring that that should help out with the Mac issues.

Second, I was able to find a Mac on which to test the site this
Windows IE4 version. The Windows IE4 version worked fine on Safari
but not in Mac's IE 5.2. I did, however, locate what appears to be
the problem. The links on this site all consist of single words
printed in blue on a white bar. In the original version the white bar
is a small jpeg image. IE on the Mac did not recognize the links
when situated on top of the jpeg. In the current version for Mac,
the white bar is constructed from a <TD> and the links are printed
inside this cell.

The web site is;
http://printmakers.mb.ca


Thanks again,

Myron Turner




Myron Turner
www.room535.org