[thelist] Site check IE Mac
Rich Points
rich at richpoints.com
Mon Aug 15 13:53:57 CDT 2005
Kevin Stevens wrote:
> I am doing a site at the moment and, after checking it out on several
> different browsers, have found something odd. I recently had to
> re-code a site where the hyphens started appearing as question marks.
> To make sure this didn't happen again I used the ampersand alternative
> – instead. We have an old imac at work with IE and all the
> hyphens appeared on the screen as –. Not sure what version of IE
> it was, and Safari displays the contents correctly, so...
>
> 1. Why is this happening?
> 2. Could someone else check it out using IE on a mac for me please.
> 3. What can I do to prevent this?
Upgrade to Safari or FireFox, IE for Mac is a dead browser, don't waste
your time coding for it. It's used by less than 2% of web surfers and
that number is falling. You can hide your style sheets from IE 5x and
other old browsers using @import syntax.
Good Luck
Rich
>
> URL is http://www.ratking.co.uk/rrs/skills.htm
>
> TIA
>
> Kevin Stevens
> kjs at ratking.co.uk
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