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I originally posted this over in Art & Graphic Design before I saw this forum, so apologies for any deja vu. Seems more suited to here:
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I'm one of the folks behind www.artifiction.com, and online gallery space for contemporary artists. Right now though, what Im most concerned about is compatibility with Mac browsers. I've been able to check out on my machine (WinXP IE6/Moz-Firebird 0.8 ) and all is fine. One of the other developers has also tested Mac Mozilla (latest).
It did throw up some weirdness on IE on his Mac, which got me a little worried, so I thought I'd throw it in here & see if how the "general public" (ish) fare.
There are works-on-everything ways of doing this, but Im trying (for simplicity/speed) to stay standardsish. This is mostly all CSS with some javascript for compat with the least bad of the bad browsers. How well it degrades is another question.
Things to look out for:
top page menus (right place, popping down, selectable, pretty?)
artwork hovering info-boxes (visible?)
So, give it a click and just say what you see: www.artifiction.com
Thanks in advance for any help here folks,
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Seems to work well enough in Safari (main Mac browser for OS X, developed by Apple):
Thumbnail hovers and menu both appear to work. Good work on the site, love the use of standards, my only suggestion would be to slowly phase out the use of random tables throughout your site 
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Internet Explorer 5.1 for Mac manages to balls up the navigation bar....
(Well you did ask)
That being said, if you mention using that browser on these boards you usually get a "You're using what?" followed by a virtual shudder.
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And, er, I'm not sure that this effect around the text was what you were looking for....
Nice site though, when viewed on a "proper" browser.
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Originally posted by skalie:
Internet Explorer 5.1 for Mac manages to balls up the navigation bar.... That being said, if you mention using that browser on these boards you usually get a "You're using what?" followed by a virtual shudder.
Heh, thanks though, there should be a way around that (its being told to float:left, and getting a bit overzealous I think ). I've tweaked it, and as far as I can see still works everywhere else - any better?
Originally posted by skalie:And, er, I'm not sure that this effect around the text was what you were looking for....
Um no, that is a bit weird isnt it. Im guessing IE vs. PNG files, so I've swapped them to gifs. One day.... one day...
Thanks again,
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Originally posted by Synotic:
Seems to work well enough in Safari (main Mac browser for OS X, developed by Apple): Thumbnail hovers and menu both appear to work.
Good good, thats the one I wondering about most so good to know its behaving. Ive heard "sort-of-second-hand" that Safari 1.0 wont work but degrades to just a list of buttons (which is ok).
Originally posted by Synotic:
Good work on the site, love the use of standards, my only suggestion would be to slowly phase out the use of random tables throughout your site
Hah, I wondered if anyone would spot those... they're dropping bit by bit. I wrote some of this a long time ago quick n dirty knowing that tables would slot things together & be back compatible... now I've drilled CSS into my head with all these menus & hovers & spangles I'm starting to do things proper I promise 
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Originally posted by mafitzpatrick:
- any better?
Um, worse actually, the height(s) of the nav bar(s) are all over the shop now, but as you could be in the middle of tweaking it I'll check it again tomorrow from work to try and avoid any possible cache issues.
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If you're willing to create a test page with just the nav bar and any applicable css/javascript I'd be willing to check it out
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index page at the mo....
best of the tests (test3)
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Originally posted by skalie:
best of the tests (test3)
Kinda intrigued what test2 would come out like, since thats just the same as test3 with a height-limit set... Though I've taken test3 and added a limit to the main parent list-element in some vain hope it'll work... guessing forcing sizes is the best way to get ie to play ball.
Hows the front look now?
Thanks again for all this, with any luck it'll hit it spot in this time... happy browsing for everyone (or at least pretty )
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