This is why most of us are now using default form styling or a very
simple approach (fieldset, legend, and possibly submit button).
Cameron Adams makes a few good points at: http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2004/04/28/
, and of course - remember that his example button looks different in
IE, Safari and Firefox! While this article is old, it covers most
salient points and provides a simple approach that works well. Having
said that, his 'Submit/Go' button is labelled as '', and the page
options as \/, and these have two different effects (one shows a menu,
one takes you to another page). Consistency is key - but remember that
users usually browse in only one browser at a time.
John Hancock
identity.net.au
PS. On a side-note, can we keep platform discussion to standards and
implementation? 'My computer is bigger/better/faster/stronger' is
fairly non-relevant to WSG and most of us aren't on the list to
receive that kind of post. The cheapest way of getting a Mac testing
environment is an older tower running OS X, and a G3 (or older)
running IE5.5 if you care about these things. Personally I run an
older mac for Safari 2 testing and older Firefox versions (1.5), and a
newer one running Safari 3 and Firefox 2, alongside a PC running
Safari, Opera, Firefox and IE7, with IE6 in the usual VPC, and also on
an older box with remote desktop. If you're retentive about testing,
then you may also wish to run a suite with flash turned off, a suite
with javascript turned off and one with CSS turned off - not to
mention the usual
On 14/01/2008, at 12:47 PM, John Horner wrote:
can I safely develop in non Mac versions and expect
my web sites to behave the same on the Mac?
Behave? Yes. But...
I don't think anyone's made this point yet -- one key difference
between
the platforms is the display of form elements.
Elements like buttons and select menus and checkboxes, etc., pretty
much
belong to the operating system and the browser is only borrowing them.
If your design has an expectation that those elements can be finely
controlled, cross-platform, then you might get an unpleasant surprise.
For instance, if you have documentation which says click on the
button
which looks like this [image of the button from a Windows browser]
then
Mac users may not have a button which looks like that.
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