[Web4lib] Coding for IE5.2 on a Mac?

[Maurice York]

Hi Nancy,
Yep, from where I sit IE has been dead on the Mac for a long time.
Besides the fact that no updates have been made to it for years, it
has all kinds of compatibility and security issues that are better
left long forgotten than trying to deal with.

That being said, if it's not possible to convince the director of the
other institution to use a modern browser (Safari and Firefox are
outstanding, but there's also half a dozen other browsers for the
mac), back when IE 5 *was* being used, people were coming up with CSS
hacks specific to IE 5 on the mac that could be commented into style
sheets to compensate for some of its peculiarities. One of the CSS
sites that I rely on regularly is Position is Everything
http://www.positioniseverything.net/
which has a number of links and resources to various hacks and
solutions to typical problems. I haven't dug into whether they address
Suckerfish menus in specific, but it's probably possible to Google
around and find some hacks out there....

Good luck,
Maurice

On 9/18/07, Nancy E. Sosna Bohm <nancy at thesmudge.com> wrote:
> I've been asked to replicate a site I did for one educational institution
> with different colors and content for a sister institution. Both websites
> include Library pages/sites, so I think this is relevant to this list.
> The Director of Communications at the sister institution uses a Mac with
> IE5.2.
> One of the "Suckerfish" styled menus evidentally doesn't work in IE5.2 on a
> Mac.
> I thought IE on Mac was obsolete.
> Is this a browser for which many on this list code?
>
> Thank you in advance for your replies,
>
> Nancy E. Sosna Bohm
> Associate Reference Librarian
> Donnelley and Lee Library
> Lake Forest College
> sosna at lakeforest.edu
>
>
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