[thelist] css quirks in AOL?

[futureweb]

On 9/10/02 2:05 pm, "Bruce Wilbur" <thelist at brucew.com> wrote:

> janice wrote:
>
>> so perhaps you could take a look at the following:
>>
>> http://averra.com/pages/about.htm
>>
>> I haven't looked at the site on AOL on Windows yet, but on v5 on the Mac,
>> does not behave well at all! Could someone let me know if this same
>> phenomenon is happening on Windows?
>>
>> Does anyone have a solution for this issue???
>>
>>
> I wrestled with that same beastie last month.  As it turns out, it's not
> the fault of AOL per se, but rather, the bastard child of Jobs and
> Gates, IE 4.5 for the Mac.  Changing visibility on my client's pages
> resulted in IE 4.5 (and by extension, AOL on Macs with it) completely
> eliminating the upper half of the page.
>
> Altering some code helped--the upper part of the page came back, is
> readable and usable, but the layout is all messed up.  I was unable to
> achieve a technical solution.
>
> After consulting the site logs for the past three months, I showed the
> client that in an average of 5,000 unique IPs per month (not the busiest
> of sites, to be sure), only one visitor other than the client himself,
> used IE 4.5 for the Mac.  After demonstrating on his secretary's Mac,
> (AOL5 Mac and IE5 Mac), I did not correct his logic when he said, "One
> in 15,000?  I guess I can live with that."
>
> And we upgraded his browser. (Note: AOL5 is still newest supported
> version on certain older versions of MacOS.)
>
> A few days later he told me, "No wonder everything always looked weird
> when I went online at the office. I thought it was my Mac."
>
> Probably not the answer you're looking for, but it worked for my client,
> and it suits me.
>
> Yours,
> B

I would have to agree that ie 4.5 on mac is a terrible browser, every mac
user I know upgraded just because so many sites do not work properly or even
work at all.

Ben