IE for the Mac and CSS
If you’ve ever styled a HTML site using CSS (which is the only way to go if you ask us at chickenBeak) you’ve probably had somebody look at your site using Internet Explorer 5 for the Mac. If this happened to you, I imagine you found yourself boggled at the fact that this browser really didn’t like your code at all, chewing up and spiting out the site looking like a bad piece of seaweed.
IE5 for the Mac is not a browser I ever recommend to be used by anyone. However, It’s not our place as the web designer to tell a client what browser they should be using. In fact, the only time I’ve seen somebody using the browser is when he or she was forced into it one way or another. Despite security risks, no support, and Microsoft not even serving it to the public, it should be hard to come by. But there are still some Internet apps that run only on the unique non-standard features of IE for the Mac. (more…)