Re not being able to afford anything newer than a pm 6100... yeah in those days even second-hand macs were really expensive and i stayed with my 25MHz quadra 610 until about 2002 (got it in 1996) when I picked up my first pm (7200) for $39CDN. I only joined the os x era in jan 2008. All my macs are secondhand. My PM 8600 (Mac OS 8.6) is still my main production mac in fact.
In the beginning I used Adobe Pagemill for web design... it served me really well... even today the sites I created are working fine in the modern browsers and dead ones too. Nowadays I use Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. It's awesome, all web standards-compliant css and js. No more wrestling with tables in PageMill for me! Those non-mainstream browsers like SeaMonkey, Camino and even Opera are not important in the business world... most businesses still use WinXp and probably IE 6. Hopefully Win 7 with IE 8 will change that soon. Actually Firefox has about 47% market share on PC and I think IE 6 has dropped to about 18% which is encouraging news for web designers. But I can see testing in many browsers like you do if you are designing for non-business, social sites. Christian Wacker wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Bill Chapman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Christian, thanks for the info... I'm really excited about having win on >> my mac altho I'm a die-hard machead... I need win to test my website >> designs in ie 6-7 (somebody kill those, please!... oh, wait... ie 8 and >> win 7 are on that case) on xp, although browsershots.org is really >> helpful, to a point... the ms learning curve will seem less intimidating >> if it's sandboxed in my mac backyard... i do have some experience in xp >> though. >> >> > I know your pain. I grew up with a Mac on one side (My dad used them > for years in school) and a PC on the other (my Grade school had them, > we had a few, and so I learned the ways of both) > As I grew up, me and the ways of the Mac parted, seeing as we didn't > have the budget to afford anything newer than my PowerMac 6100\66, so > I never got beyond system 7, until this year (where i'm living on my > own and decided to splurge $25 on a pair of used iMacs) > I Designed my first revision of my site using MS's Publisher (what a > nightmare) and it worked about 15% of the time. after switching over > to Kompozer, I had to find ways to test it with other browsers in the > world, where my iMac came in handy. I have Camino and Safari on my > iMac, Opera, IE6,7,8 and a few other odd ones (like sea monkey) on a > VM, and FireFox is the only Browser found on my desktop. (My GF Uses > Chrome, so she tests that out for me.) > I enjoy the ideas of virtulization though. I forgot about MS's VPC for > Mac (Until I checked my Technet, and found that I could gnab a copy > for myself) and I am currently testing the limits of my iMac, by using > pre-loaded XP, and Windows 7 disk images (It will be interesting to > see if a 350mhz PPC can run windows 7 as well as my 3.2ghz DualCore > AMD system) > > -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
