>Well, I was brought down a couple of pegs today. Went to see a new Being brought down a few pegs every now and then is good for the soul, Grasshopper. :-) >client (which I rarely do) and to demonstrate to him my talents, I >brought up my latest creation on his MAC Performa 6115. Man, whatta >DOWNER! My pride and joy looked like a 3rd grader's crayon drawing. I >know little about MAC's, almost nothing, but the resolution sucked, the >"browser safe" colors were all washed out, and some of the graphics just Mac video runs at a significantly brighter gamma than Wintel. The uninformed PC designer will produce a web site that looks incredibly washed out on the average Mac. The uninformed Mac designer's site will be very dark and muddy when viewed on the run-of-the-mill PC. I suppose the best solution would be to compromise and aim for the middle ground. >fell apart. The client for whom I prepared the site is tres happy with >it, but if he were viewing it on my new clients MAC, he'd be sueing me >for the $7.5K he paid me for it. I was very careful to observe all the >rules ... max width 640 pixels, browser safe colors, sizing all graphics >in the html, etc. What do you do about this? Design everything as if >it were going to be displayed on Etch-A-Sketch? I'm running an IBM >clone 486 with a 1024 by whatever rez monitor, definitely not state of >the art, but I'll take it any day over the MAC. Any comments? Man, I'm All I can say is that must be one odd Mac. I've *never* seen a Wintel box whose video made me ashamed of my Apples, and I've not been underexposed (I have 2 Macs & 3 PCs -- one guess which 40% of the collection does 99% of the work). >going home and drink TWO beers tonite. Better make it three. Why don't you share the URL of the site in question? Perhaps the switch-hitters amongst us can shed some light on your predicament. ____________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Join The Web Consultants Association : Register on our web site Now Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants If you lose the instructions All subscription/unsubscribing can be done directly from our website for all our lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
