Safari and ex

Is Safari's ex implementation buggy?

[jfred1979]

The "Target Browser Checker" in Dreamweaver is telling me that the Safari 1.0 implementation of ex units is buggy. Since I didn't specify ex units for anything I assume that the default measurement unit is ex, and it's picking up where I just wrote 0 for some elements with no unit. This won't cause any problems for Safari will it? It's difficult not having access to a Mac because from what I know Safari is gaining popularity. Is 1.0 the most used version right now?

[TGecho]

I don't know about defaults, but I would hope zero is zero no matter how you use it.

[dragonlady7]

Safari 1.1 is the most updated version. Only available on Panther. So everyone running Panther's running 1.1, everyone running Jaguar's running 1.0 (something like 90% of Jaguar users are on Safari now, I read somewhere), and there are a bunch of people on lower OS #s but I've read that Mac users' rate of adoption of new OS's is much higher than that of users of other platforms, so of the miniscule part of the population that uses Mac, a huge # use Safari.

Um, that came out silly and vague, but if you want I could look it up. :)

My point is, yes Safari's widespread in the Mac world (very) and I'm glad you're worried about it. :D

You know, there oughtta be an exchange somewhere, where you post URL's and ask people with various hard-to-get browsers to check it out... somebody could make that work, somewhere. But then people wouldn't have the excuse to buy that Powerbook... ;)

[jfred1979]

Um, that came out silly and vague, but if you want I could look it up. :)

That's alright I get what you're saying.... :)

You know, there oughtta be an exchange somewhere, where you post URL's and ask people with various hard-to-get browsers to check it out...

That's a good idea, since I'm currently living way out in the woods it's a little difficult for me to find other machines to test on. Also, since IE won't allow older versions to be installed on one machine, I can't check on anything below IE 6.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know anything about the browsers available for other "minority" platforms, such as Linux? Do they conform to standards? I used to use Amigas, long after Commodore's demise (there are still plenty of die hards who are using them) and it could be a little frustrating since anything other than a standard HTML page with no javascript would break in the browsers. I assume Linux is a little more friendly when it comes to web browsing, but I wonder about other platforms.

[dcrombie]

Following what dragonlady7 suggested - I've been doing some CSS1 coding after reading some of the threads here. I can test in Safari (Mac), MSIE (Mac), Netscape (Mac) and Lynx (Linux) but no Windows.

I won't post the URLs here but if anyone's interested in exchanging some screenshots, please buzz me (I assume sticky-mail can do this?).

for jfred1979: new thread: How to: Install multiple versions of IE on your PC [webmasterworld.com]

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[jfred1979]

Thanks for the link, dcrombie, very helpful. I'm pretty close to launching my first pure CSS site, so I may contact you about checking a layout or two on the Mac browsers. I've got IE 6, Netscape 4.07 and 7.0, Opera 7.1 and Firebird 0.7 for Windows, sticky mail me if you need anything checked out....