Totally agree. A browser compatibility list is a must for any web app.
Our problems have been in having to avoid newer CSS layout methods
due to
compatibility requirements with IE 5.x on Mac. Microsoft dropped the
product, so I wish the user community would <g>.
Darin.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Schaible"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Darin Cox" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IMail 2006 WebMail w/o Mac
Hi,
I have to clarify my statement "First of all, I can not understand,
how a
web programmer is able to create html/css/dhmtl/js-code that is not
mac-compatible".
We do lot of web design stuff and we create websites without any
problems to
run with mac's. I'm quite familiar with the problems that can occur.
This means, a designer must take care, that a modern product runs on
a mac
using up-to-date browsers. I agree, that an old IE 4.x on OS9 is
hardly to
support and not an issue.
Ipswicth should gives us a clear statemtent, if the WebMail runs on eg.
Safari, Opera, on a tupperware pc, ähhm mac.
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Am Samstag, 5. November 2005 um 14:43 schrieben Sie:
First of all, I can not understand, how a web programmer is able to
create
html/css/dhmtl/js-code that is not mac-compatible.
Because the browser rendering engines are significantly different.
While
Safari is bsed on Mozilla and will most likely work, IE for Mac is
_very_
different from IE for Windows...especially in CSS layouts. Not
having a
Mac, I've found it extremely difficult to design for Mac audiences
using
newer layout methods, and have generally had to revert to table
layouts to
avoid CSS inconsistencies that would cause rendering on IE for Mac
to fail
miserably.... but again Safari may work fine.
Secondly, our isp customers and imail customers are living in a mixed
world. This means: wintel's and mac's.
Yes, but most development shops are Windows-only based. I've run into
several third party web apps that could not tell me whether their
products
worked on a Mac because they didn't have equipment to develop or test
with.
We'll be buying a Mac sometime soon to better test web apps for that
audience.
Today I sold a IMail subscription to an college having 4000 accounts,
containing a few hundreds IMac's. Do I run in troubles now?
See if it doesn't work fine in Safari.
Darin.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Schaible"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "IMail Forum" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 8:15 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] IMail 2006 WebMail w/o Mac
Hi,
Did i understand the postings correctly, that the new webmail of IMail
2006
does not work on Mac's? I really hope, this is wrong.
First of all, i can not understand, how a web programmer is able to
create
html/css/dhmtl/js-code that is not mac-compatible.
Secondly, our isp customers and imail customers are living in a mixed
world.
This means: wintel's and mac's.
Without mac support, the customers won't move to imail 2006 at all.
Today i sold a imal subscription to an college having 4000 accounts,
containing a few hundreds IMac's. Do i run in troubles now?
If this is really true, i would re-scedule the release date of Imail
until
this issue is solved.
Would anybody from ipswitch confirm this issue, or better say: "It's a
nasty
halloween joke"??
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