Mac OS X problems with IE 5.2
 

I have done some changes to the template and so far most of the browsers look good, with the exception of IE 5.2 for the mac. It is fine on Safari.

The problem lies in the home.tpl, the head.tpl and bottom.tpl are in the correction positions. The home.tpl is lying over the bottom.tpl?

Here is my question. Has anyone had any problems with a background image inside the table in the body section? Like this?


I am at a loss and could not find many other posts specific to IE 5.2 with home.tpl doing this. Again, it looks good in Win IE, Opera, Foxfire, Safari, and only have a problem with Mac IE. If you see something else please let me know.

Thanks for any help offered.

You should use CSS to set background images, not the old 'background' tag, as that is depreciated.

CSS helped but did not solve it.
 

Thanks for the idea on the stylesheet. Your right, about it needing to be there, but I did not take the time to play with the positioning on the page using CSS. I have it there now, but I still have the home.tpl showing on top of the bottom.tpl.

BTW I still need to work on the positioning of that image so disregard it for the time being.

People still us IE on the mac ?? It hasn't shipped as a part of OS X since 10.3.


You're talking really small user % here.

Small %
 

Your right, it is a small percentage, but I try to go through all of the browsers that I can, and found this one problem.

If I cannot solve it, then I will use your reasoning that it will have a small effect on the total userbase, but it makes the website totally useless for that one particular user. It is not just annoying, it is useless.

Make sure you don't have an open table cell somewhere. And yes, you should always optimize and test your site for ALL browser/platform combos. You wouldn't close your brick and mortar store for someone wearing a Mac t-shirt, nor should you make it useless for them on the web. It's just throwing away potential business.

Open Table
 

OK, it was an open TD tag in the rectangle_top.tpl.

I forgot about that template. It still has some things hosed up, but those are managable.

Thank for helping me notice something small.

Careful with rectangle_top.tpl...that main open <td> tag is closed in rectangle_bottom.tpl.

Not the right one
 

Well, that did fix the problem in the IE, but your right, it hosed the other ones up with taking the bottom out.

Still looking for an open cell.

I know that pltform testing and all is very vital. But if you spends hours and hours of very valuable time for maybe 1% of visitors it can change the balance.


But I do hope it works out in the end

Fixed somewhat
 

In one of my template modifications I added an extra table in the home.tpl. It was just for me to organize myself a little better so I thought that I could try without it and it turned out that my table may have been the problem. The information is now showing correctly in the center section.

However, the image in the css which is static in the background is now gone???

At least it is usable and viewable in all browsers. Thanks for the help to everyone.