MAC IE difference

What are the main differences?

[NeoN]

Hi!
I have no ability to test the site on MAC IE. My client says it looks some wrong there..
What are the main differences between MS IE and MAC IE in the meaning of HTML?

I wish there would online emulator :)

Thank you!

[Rolly the Tester]

IE on the Mac behaves very differently to IE on the PC. In some instances the problems with it are like issues found on Netscape 4.x on the PC. Also the latest version of IE on the PC is IE6, where the latest version on the Mac is 5.1 or 5.5. You really need a mac with IE installed to see the problems.

[Macguru]

I find IE for Mac to be very picky about CSS : a single little glitch in some external style sheet and it will be ignored.

The first step would be to run for CSS validation.

[txbakers]

You should buy a cheap IMac from Ebay if you are going to write websites and need to test on Mac. It'll cost you about $300 or so. Well worth it.

[mivox]

I've found that, rather than being "like Netscape 4", IE 5 Mac is more standards compliant than IE 5 Windows... (The windows machines in my office can't run IE 6, so I've got no idea about that one.)

That said, IE 5 can also, as Macguru pointed out, be pickier than it's Windows equivalent... as long as your code (both HTML and CSS) passes validation though, there shouldn't be a problem.

What is your client reporting as a problem?

[NeoN]

Thanks.. I see the difference is big. Not good.

Client reports Flash slow down and some graphical differences ( well, if that is close to NN 4.x then I am shocked. Site works fine under NN, but it took me a while to do so. I love this game -" Beat NN 4.7" :) I usually win. But seems like I have to buy MAC :(

Thank you!

[mivox]

Flash slow down would more likely just be the specs on their computer or internet connection... IEMac is not like NN4. I stopped using NN4 in favor of IE5 on my Mac a long time ago, precisely because IE is not like NN. ;)

[aaronjf]

If a flash file is running slow on a Mac it is deffinately B/C of a hardware issue. One they are viewing it on an old mac G3 300 or lower. Two bad connection. Or three there is something wrong with there graphics card. I ran into a couple problems like this a while back with some flash files. Turned out they were viewing them from an old Mac PPC 8500/120