{"id":351,"date":"2002-02-15T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-16T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/15\/cross-platform-compatibilityugh\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T14:43:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T22:43:28","slug":"cross-platform-compatibilityugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/15\/cross-platform-compatibilityugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-platform compatibility&#8230;ugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16545,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/w3.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311081759\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.w3.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 11:07:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 11:07:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>My friend Kirsten e-mailed me earlier today, and one of the things she mentioned was that my website looks &#8220;completely different&#8221; on a mac and on a wintel box. This got me a little curious, as I try to make sure that things are fairly compatible across the platforms &#8212; with one caveat. As I mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/07\/site_design_why.html\" title=\"Eclecticism: Site design: Why CSS?\">in a post last July<\/a>, I&#8217;ve switched my layout from a table-based layout (pros: works [mostly] in all browsers on all platforms; cons: kludgy, browser-intensive to render, and considered poor layout by <a href=\"http:\/\/w3.org\/\" title=\"World Wide Web Consortium\">current web standards<\/a>). By doing this, I&#8217;ve more or less nuked the appearance of my site for older and non-compliant browsers, but I wanted the simplicity of CSS layout for site redesigns and to be able to say that I&#8217;ve got a truly compliant site.<\/p>\n<p>However, as I know things can be a little tweaky from browser to browser on the two platforms, I decided to try a little experiment. I set up a link (the one mentioned in my <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/just_testing_so.html\" title=\"Eclecticism: Just testing something\">previous post<\/a>) that uses JavaScript to open a 800&#215;600 window (considered the minimum necessary screen width for designing these days, as so few people run their computers at 640&#215;480 anymore) with no toolbars or anything to get in the way. I then tested my main page under 10 different browsers, 7 on the Mac and 3 on the PC, to see how they appeared. The results <del>(updated on 02.20.02 and 02.27.02) are in the rest of this post&#8230;<\/del> <ins>have been deleted, as I didn&#8217;t want to bother with re-uploading all of the graphics to the new server. The end result was essentially that Mozilla-based browsers worked great, IE didn&#8217;t, and Opera, Omniweb, and iCab had definite issues<\/ins>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testing my website in every browser available to me to see how they handle the CSS code I&#8217;m using.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}