It's due to the changes made in IE6 and IE7, and the stoppage of IE in Mac's.


On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:04:20 +0300, Will Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jack,
> 
> I use both PC and Mac. IE 6 on PC and IE 5 on Mac are different in the
> way they render identical pages.
> 
> Will Jensen
> Moscow, Russia
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Feb 23, 2005, at 7:48 AM, John Horner wrote:
> 
> > Can I add one more thing to the site review thing?
> >
> > I often see people asking for their site to be checked on "on a Mac",
> > which doesn't really make much sense if you think about it. I can test
> > it for you in the very latest build of FireFox, but that probably
> > isn't what you mean...
> >
> > There are:
> >
> > * browsers which are pretty much identical on Mac and other platforms
> > -- if you've got a problem with Netscape 4 on PC you've almost
> > certainly got it on Mac too
> >
> > * browsers which only exist on Mac, for instance Safari
> >
> > * browsers which have the same names on Mac and PC, for instance IE5,
> > but which are radically different browsers -- don't assume for a
> > second if it works in IE5 on PC it works in IE5 on a Mac
> >
> > so when you ask people to test a site "because apparently it doesn't
> > work on a Mac", it really helps to know what browser is being used by
> > the person reporting the problem.
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