mac vs. pc

[do0m]

My website works fine in internet explorer and netscape on a PC, but is all sorts of messed up on a mac. Does anyone know where I can get information on fixing it so that it works with both? thanks
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do0m
(cleverkat.com)

[James L.]

Hey,

What browsers, and which version of those browsers, are you using to view the pages on the Mac? This will help nail down the problem.

Barring Omniweb, which is junk, the Mac browsers tend to be very standards complient... often far more so than the pc ones.

Let me know what is happening, with what area of your pages, in which browsers, etc.

Cheers!

[do0m]

Well, I actually haven't seen it on a mac yet since I don't have one, but my mom sent me an email saying that my layout was messed up on her mac. here's what she said exactly:
"For some reason, when I enter the site, the design displays on the lower half of my screen, so I have to scroll down to see the whole thing. Then, when I click on a frame in the portfolio, it displays higher up, but when I dismiss that enlargement, I have to scroll down to see the main design again."
she said she used IE on her mac, and after she looked at it in netscape it displayed properly. hope that helps.

my website is www.cleverkat.com if you want to take a look
thanks for your help
-do0m

[PeOfEo]

Check your site on mozilla and opera. Mozilla is like well netscape bought mozilla source code so it will look very much the same on both of those browsers. If its an old ns she is using like ns 3 or 4 you can expect much. But go to www.mozilla.org and ww.opera.com and download those and look at your site with them.

[James L.]

Hey,

I am out of town right now with my Dell (ugh... they suck) laptop, but as soon as I get home I will view it in IE Mac and let you know.

Cheers!

[toicontien]

I tried validating your page at validator.w3.org, and used the doctype and character coding override features for HTML 4.01 Transitional (the most liberal of the modern HTML versions).

Wow. Tons of errors. The one error that's messing up the display on MAC browers is that you are missing either a beginning or end table cell tag. The exact error given was that on line 74, you closed a TD element that wasn't open.

Best advice, double check, and if need be triple check, your code to make sure all elements are closed properly. It may help to indent your code one space for each opening HTML tag, and unindent one space for each closing HTML tag. It's easier to spot unclosed tags that way.

[do0m]

oh thanks :)
i'll check it right away.

[James L.]

...you could even indent 2 spaces!