Does anyone knows the difference between IE for win and IE for Mac?

[The_Fire]

I'm getting awfully tired of blind-CSS'ing websites when it comes to mac. I've gotten a solution for Safari (Knoppix Live Cd with Konqueror (sp?) as I understand Konkueror(sp?) and Safari runs on the same engine) but IE is having me stumped.
And I'm getting really, really tired of not knowing if my designs shows correctly....
Anyone?

 

[kevin]

I'm getting awfully tired of blind-CSS'ing websites when it comes to mac. I've gotten a solution for Safari (Knoppix Live Cd with Konqueror (sp?) as I understand Konkueror(sp?) and Safari runs on the same engine) but IE is having me stumped.
And I'm getting really, really tired of not knowing if my designs shows correctly....
Anyone?

Design it for Safari and Firefox on Mac and you should be good (although you could throw Camino in the mix too -- my personal fave).

IE on Mac is a dead product, Microsoft no longer develops or supports it, Apple no longer ships it in the OS.

It had decent web standards support (better than windows for a long time). HTML 4 transistional might work pretty well on it.

 

[skooob]

I would agree with kevin that support for IE/Mac is mostly a waste of time. Most Mac users should be moving away from IE now.

There is however an easy way to check what your web pages look like in different browsers. There a web site called BrowserCam which will generate screenshots of your web site, using lots of different browsers on different platforms. Their service cost a bit of money though (but you can try it for free). There is a similar service called Browsershots, which is free, but a lot slower.

If you're intrested in the actual differences between browsers, there's a great site called Quirksmode, which has all the gory.

I can't post links, but all of the sites are googleable.

 

[The_Fire]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!
The Quirksmode site ( http://www.quirksmode.org/ ) kindly supplied me with a hack to make sure that IE for mac uses the CSS. As it seems to have the same basic rendering engine as Explorer 5 for win, I just have to locate, and install, an aditional copy of IE and I'm flying with that.

Also thank you for the insight into the Mac browser world. I must admit that Mac's isn't what I've dealt with on a regular basis, so the advice on which browsers are "in" was much appreciated.

THANK YOU!