yeowtch!
Several points here.
The form elements come from the browser, not the API. fire up safari
and firefox on your mac and you will see this. Safari has that silly
round button thing and firefox has a more windowsy set of form elements.
two: you can style form elements in css but safari doesn't play as
well as firefox does in honouring your display.
three: you should NEVER have guidance like "click on the button which
looks like this"! gawd!
You should be designing a form which is self explanatory and if it
requires guidance, the guidance should be in the form itself, perhaps
with mouseover text so it is accessibility compliant. How do those
with poor site look for your button? They shouldn't have to, the
button should announce itself for all to understand!
Sorry for the rant . but really....
Joe
On Jan 14 2008, at 01:47, 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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