Mac IE Compatability

[chestertb]

Hi All,

Was at the parents' place on Friday and they insisted on being shown the current work in progress.

The site's been written on Windoze with cross browser compatability for IE5+, NS6 and NS4(partial).

Dad runs an iMac with a version of Internet Explorer that's about 9 months old (sorry, don't have the version number).

The visibile/hidden dhtml/javascript functions did not work properly. Items that should have been hidden were not, and when items were supposed to be visible, the browser seemed to ignore the zindex numbering of the <div> structure.

FYI the site is at www.hostyourhotel.com.

Are there known IE/Mac compatability issues, and if not, does anyone have any other thoughts or suggestions?
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[TomDenver]

I don't know the answer to your Mac problem or what's causing incompatibilities. However, you can accomplish the same effect with your images and text at top right using only CSS and HTML, which should reduce or negate most of your compatibility issues.

There is a great tutorial on it here (http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo.html). I put up a modified version of this on my site, but mine still uses JavaScript for the image mouseover effects. That part should not have any problems with IE/Mac compatibility anyway, it's just a simple onMouseOver image swap and status bar text change.

If you want to see the version I did, go here (http://www.tom-wallace.com/index.php).

[chestertb]

Thanks Tom,

As you can probably see by the code on my site, I'm still getting my head around the whole CSS thing.

Appreciate the links.

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[TomDenver]

Chestertb, I recommend going to the first link, save the html file, then play around with it. Edit it, see what works, and what causes it to break. CSS is a lot easier to learn than JavaScript in my opinion.

[chestertb]

Thanks Tom. It'd need to be. JavaScript is... well... best I say nothing more.

Cheers mate, and thanks for the assist.
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