Re: [WSG] standards-compliant designers

2008-01-12 Thread Viable Design
There is blame to go around, for sure. I had an accessibility issue just this morning, while trying to find out about filing an insurance claim on my husband's car (which someone ran into in the middle of the night ... and took off). In Firefox, my browser of choice, the text on the page I needed

Re: [WSG] standards-compliant designers and shoddy work poor QA

2008-01-12 Thread Michael Horowitz
The answer is very simple. 100% of potential users of a website have IE on their computer. Every user smart enough to know there are non IE browsers are smart enough to know sometimes you have to switch back to IE to make the website work. The question becomes from a business perspective is

Re: [WSG] standards-compliant designers and shoddy work poor QA

2008-01-12 Thread Steve Olive
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:31:45 pm Michael Horowitz wrote: The answer is very simple. 100% of potential users of a website have IE on their computer. Michael Horowitz Your Computer Consultant http://yourcomputerconsultant.com 561-394-9079 Sorry to spoil your fun Michael, but 100% of Apple

[WSG] Developing for Mac Browsers

2008-01-12 Thread Peter Mount
Hi I'm tossing up whether to buy a Mac or to save my money and buy a new PC and just have Linux and Windows on it. I've read that Safari for Windows will help Web Developers without a Mac be able to develop for that. Is there a difference between Mac versions of browsers like Firefox and

Re: [WSG] standards-compliant designers

2008-01-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That's a great idea, I think i'll do that too. it's really annoying that people disregard the fact that there are other browsers out there, and make their site solely for ie6 and they don't even think about validating it... But your idea is good, to tell them about it will hopefully bring a

Re: [WSG] Developing for Mac Browsers

2008-01-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are some differences between the windows versions and the mac versions, but if it works on windows, it is very likely it will work on mac as well. But aside from buying a mac, you can try to use an emulator or a virtual machine and test the website from there. You can also try to use this

Re: [WSG] Developing for Mac Browsers

2008-01-12 Thread Joseph Taylor
I would try to get an old cheap G3 or something on ebay, you can get them very cheaply and often with OSX installed. The rendering differences between Firefox etc will be similar, but the respective font sizes will be a little different (a little smaller on the mac). Joseph R. B. Taylor