Website getting cut off on Macs

[TheRookie]

I don't have a Mac, but a writer for my site told me that an article is getting cut off halfway through on his Mac. The site was made in Frontpage. Are there any known things to look for that would result in cut-off articles on Macs? Any part of my HTML that I should post which would help?

Any site where I could enter a URL to see how it looks on a Mac?

Thanks for the help...I really need to solve this problem.

[rjohara]

Have you checked to make sure the site has valid HTML and CSS:

[validator.w3.org...]
[jigsaw.w3.org...]

Often cross-platform problems are the result of general markup problems rather than any particular platform-specific issue.

[TheRookie]

Just some missing ALT tags, no other problems.

Hmm...

[Macguru]

'on Mac' is pretty much like saying 'on PC' and leaves us pretty clueless of wich OS and wich browser he uses on his Mac.

Any details?

[TheRookie]

Sorry - forgot about that.

I know he's on IE, and here is what comes up in my logs:

Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us

If any more info is necessary, I can get ahold of him tomorrow afternoon.

Thanks.

[Macguru]

While this discontinued browser have some support for CSS1 and CSS2 some bugs still remain.

Can this be of any help?

[macedition.com...]

If not, I suggest googling someting like.

mac os x ie css bugs

or

mac os x ie css bug list

[PatrickDeese]

this is just a guess from out of nowhere - but could you have specified the height of a table cell that the content is in smaller than the required length to display the content?

Doing that will look fine in IE and usually breaks firefox and safari.

[Macguru]

I just looked at the page with Safari, Firefox and IE on X 10.3

I cannot duplicate the problem. The page uses almost no CSS and has no doctype.

Can this be a problem?

<table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse">

[monkeythumpa]

IE on a mac is terrible, thank you Safari. But on every Mac I was having a problem with elements positioned reletively that pushed down other blocks. If I set top:30px;, the page would cut off 30 px too soon.

[sgina]

If the page's not too long, you may post your code here. I'm on Mac and would like to look at the page for you.

[dickbaker]

I work primarily on a Mac, and have noticed this with just about every site I've created, whether I'm using tables or layers.

The solution I found was to put a few empty paragraph breaks at the bottom of the page. Not an elegant solution, but it works for the pages I've created.

[Span]

I know he's on IE, and here is what comes up in my logs:
Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us

I just noticed something strange.

These are the latest versions of Mac/IE on MacOs 9.2.2 and MacOS-X:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.17; Mac_PowerPC)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.23; Mac_PowerPC)

and these are, on MacOS-X, Safari and Netscape:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; nl-nl) AppleWebKit/312.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02

So it looks like what you saw in your logs was not IE.