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Mac users could you please have a look at <snipped>(1 page only - the links don't work) and see if it loads up.
I have a potential customer who uses a mac ( I don't own a mac - shame on me) and I did this example web site for him and it doesn't seem to load up on his mac. Loads fine on a PC.
Also <snipped> doesn't work on a mac??
I started to use character encoding UTF-8 for my recent designs and I thought that would be the problem so I changed it back to ISO-8859-1. Now I'm not sure any more because it still doesn't load? The source code is visible but it basically gives a blank screen in the browser?
I checked the unicode.org and w3c.org web sites and various other websites in search of an answer but couldn't find an answer as to why the web pages don't load up.
Help is very much appreciated.
Thank you all,
Leo
[edited by: Macguru at 1:22 am (utc) on July 31, 2002]
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Welcome to WebmasterWorld.
Did you read paynt's welcome post [webmasterworld.com]? Nice way to get started here.
Did you try to validate your HTML code?
[validator.w3.org...]
This will fix 99 % of the problems. I dont believe it's a charset problem.
What browser make and version did you use to check your site on your PC?
Same question for your friend with a Mac.
No obviously I didn't read Paynt's welcome mail.
Have read bits and pieces now, will read more later.
Thanks for pointing that out to me.
Yes, I used the w3c validator.
I can't really find a problem.
I tested on My PC using Netscape 4.70 and 6, Internet Explorer 5 and 6 and
Opera 1.0.
My customer on his Mac I don't know but I seem to remember he was
using IE (version don't know).
See the thing is that he looked at other web sites of mine with charset
ISO-8859-1 (or without mentioning a charset) and they load fine.
I find it really strange that only the web pages with charset UTF-8
don't load on his Mac. Basically a blank screen loaded. I did notice
the title of the web page and clicked 'view source' and the source code
showed.
Very strange, I checked w3c and unicode web sites and as far as I could
see there shouldn't be a problem. I'm just a bit paranoia now because I've
never used a Mac and again I only recently started using UTF-8. See what
I mean?
My customer said he was going to contact his IT guy because maybe the
problem was with him or his ISP? But I don't think so because only a few
of my web sites don't load.
Cheers,
leo
Ofcourse that's it. I didn't validate my CSS, only validated HTML. See I was convinced there was nothing wrong with my CSS. Now I don't know why I even thought that ISO-8559 and/or UTF-8 could be the problem. It just didn't make sense.
Also I thought it was strange that the page didn't load on a mac using IE 5.1 only. So I did a lot of reading on that and I guess I was misled by that as well.
I do know what happened; I copied the style sheet from one of my previous designs and then made a few changes and didn't think about validating it again. Shame on me.
Thanks for your help,
Leo
The great Lao Tse once told me on the Holy mountain "Why look for the obvious when the not so obvious is far more interesting" (or something like that) ;-)
