real-life support for macs?

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Paul W - 15 Jul 2005 01:49 GMT

So what do real people do by way of supporting mac browsers?! This seems an
absolute nightmare, all for 2-3% of users. Any real-life experiences or
suggestions appreciated.

At this stage I'm kinda contemplating detecting a mac-browser and
redirecting them to a page that says "Go find a friend with a PC, and use
it..."

Paul.

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Robbe Morris [C# MVP] - 15 Jul 2005 02:28 GMT

IE for MAC isn't too bad. I only had a small problem
a year ago because it didn't support the .push() method
in a JavaScript array. Other than that, it worked ok for me
as long as I made my stuff work well on PC netscape/mozilla.

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> So what do real people do by way of supporting mac browsers?! This seems
> an absolute nightmare, all for 2-3% of users. Any real-life experiences or
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> Paul.

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Mark Rae - 15 Jul 2005 07:40 GMT

> So what do real people do by way of supporting mac browsers?! This seems
> an absolute nightmare, all for 2-3% of users. Any real-life experiences or
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> redirecting them to a page that says "Go find a friend with a PC, and use
> it..."

Generally speaking, and I know it sounds harsh, but Mac users will be
totally used to sites not working properly, so I tend not to bother even
testing on them.

I have contemplated buying a Mac Mini because it will fit right into my
existing KVM setup, but I haven't done so as yet.

Incidentally, does anyone have a feel for how representative the data on the
following page is? http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

I tend to refer to it quite a bit, but would be interested to know of any
other similar sites...

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Juan T. Llibre - 15 Jul 2005 08:31 GMT

http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2005/June/browser.php

http://www.upsdell.com/browsernews/stat_trends.htm

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>> So what do real people do by way of supporting mac browsers?! This seems an absolute
>> nightmare, all for 2-3% of users. Any real-life experiences or suggestions appreciated.
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> I tend to refer to it quite a bit, but would be interested to know of any other similar
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