My site on the Mac...

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hmmmm, tested my site on the Mac last night.
Despite working on IE, FF, and Opera on the PC, I came up against some problems on the Mac.

In Safari:
The drop down menus dont drop down. :(
See the new site here:
http://www.davereederdesign.com/

Yet, on my old site they do drop down:
http://www.davereederdesign.com/work/web/davereederdesignv3/index.html

The Javascript is the same, and the CSS is Suckerfish based. Looking at the xhtml (for the first 2 menu items only) on the old site, the master menu items didn't link to anything, as you can see, I just have a href="":

Code:
<ul id="nav">
	<li><a href="" class="master" id="home"><span>home</span></a>
		<ul>
			<li><a href="index.html" class="homeitem">blog</a></li>
			<li><a href="intro.html" class="homeitem">introduction</a></li>
			<li><a href="about.html" class="homeitem">about</a></li>
		</ul>
	</li>
	
	<li><a href="" class="master" id="work"><span>work</span></a>
		<ul>
			<li><a href="websites.html" class="workitem">websites</a></li>
			<li><a href="print.html" class="workitem">print</a></li>
			<li><a href="digital_art.html" class="workitem">digital art</a></li>
			<li><a href="traditional_art.html" class="workitem">traditional art</a></li>
			<li><a href="articles.html" class="workitem">articles</a></li>
		</ul>
	</li>

But on the new menu (for the first 2 items only), the master items link to the first page on that menu:

Code:
="navcontainer">
	<ul id="nav">
		<li><a href="index.html" class="master" id="home"><span>home</span></a>
			<ul>
				<li><a href="index.html" class="second">Blog/News</a></li>
				<li><a href="about.html" class="second">About</a></li>
			</ul>
		</li>

		<li><a href="web.html" class="master" id="work"><span>work</span></a>
			<ul>
				<li><a href="web.html" class="second">Web</a></li>
				<li><a href="print.html" class="second">Print</a></li>
				<li><a href="digitalart.html" class="second">Digital art</a></li>
				<li><a href="traditionalart.html" class="second">Traditional art</a></li>
			</ul>
		</li>

So, that is the only difference I can think of causing the menus NOT to drop down on the new site.
Any ideas?

On IE for the Mac (Not sure what version, but running OSX)

The new site wont load, gives the error "IE cant open that document type"
I can go to google and search for it, but when I click the link I get a page of random characters.
However, I can open other sites and the old site just fine.
Now, on both sites Im using xhtml 1.1, but with different content types:

OLD:
Code:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

NEW:
Code:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=iso-8859-1" />

Now, I was told before it was wrong to use than content type, so i changed it to the new one. However, before my site worked, now it's borked, any ideas?

Thanks in advance!
 
Robdav said:
Sorry I can't help mate, but if anyone knows of a way of testing sites on a mac without actually having a mac, i'd like to know how.

hope you get it sorted.

You can get a Safari screenshot here:
http://www.snugtech.com/safaritest/

Its not as good as testing on the Mac, as you can imagine, if I just used that link I would think all was well, when it really isnt! :)
Better than nothing though!
 
D4VE said:
The new site wont load, gives the error "IE cant open that document type"
[...]
Now, on both sites Im using xhtml 1.1, but with different content types:
[...]

Now, I was told before it was wrong to use than content type, so i changed it to the new one. However, before my site worked, now it's borked, any ideas?
Well IE doesn't support application/xhtml+xml, and it's unlikely to in the future (IE7), so that error is correct. Its normal behaviour is to pop up a download box. However, since your site is actually being served up as text/html and not application/xhtml+xml (<meta> content-type tags are overriden by the header sent by the server) then the error you're getting is a bit odd.

It loaded fine for me on OSX with IE5.2.

I'm not sure on your issue with the drop-downs atm; can confirm that I get the same issue with Safari.
 
Augmented said:
Well IE doesn't support application/xhtml+xml, and it's unlikely to in the future (IE7), so that error is correct. Its normal behaviour is to pop up a download box. However, since your site is actually being served up as text/html and not application/xhtml+xml (<meta> content-type tags are overriden by the header sent by the server) then the error you're getting is a bit odd.

It loaded fine for me on OSX with IE5.2.

I'm not sure on your issue with the drop-downs atm; can confirm that I get the same issue with Safari.

Hi mate,

Thanks for having a look. Its going to be hard for me to work on the drop downs as I dont have a Mac so I can only check the results of any changes I make every few days at college.

Maybe this particular Mac is the problem. We have a lot of Macs at college so Ill test it on another one, nice that it worked on yours though :)
 
if you want/need your site looking at urgently in any Mac-based browser (safari, camino, IE 5.2) then drop me an email on my trust. i can get on the net any evenings and drop you screenshots/problems that you're having :) can't be of more help on the actual problem, though...my sites always miraculously work in safari *touches wood*
 
Sic said:
if you want/need your site looking at urgently in any Mac-based browser (safari, camino, IE 5.2) then drop me an email on my trust. i can get on the net any evenings and drop you screenshots/problems that you're having :) can't be of more help on the actual problem, though...my sites always miraculously work in safari *touches wood*

Thanks Sic, I may well take you up on that offer. :)
I will probably make an alteration to the code and then ask you to quickly check it :)

It's the first time Ive had serious problems with Safari too, it seems like a good browser.

thanks again!
 
it's a really good browser...there's a reason i use firefox, but i can't remember what it is...maybe time for the safari switcheroo
 
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