On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Bill Chapman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > I got my PM6100 third (or fourth) hand (My uncle gave it to me about 9 years ago, who got it from his company when they upgraded a few years after purchasing it new (I think)) and I haven't done much but add more space and ram from some scrapped ones (the chips fell off the mobo, which was quite odd) from school.
> 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! > I haven't used PageMill before, but I'm looking for a OS 10.4.11 compatible Adobe Dreamweaver product, since i'm accustomed to CS3, and enjoy working with it (but I don't always feel like booting up my pc, because there are too many distractions) > 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. > I test all those, because I know people who use them, and I have a section that is devoted to older Mac stuff (Still not revocered from the server crash) and I want it to work on a browser designed for older macs. -Christian -- 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
