Helping the Apple Web Community w/o an Apple Computer?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday September 11, 2003 @11:15AM from the readable-webpages++ dept.

ptaff asks: "Web developing can burn some braincells when trying to get a page to render fine in all browsers. Using XHTML/CSS on Win/Linux, thou can get a 'satisfying' result among PC browsers (MSIE, Mozilla-and-derivatives, Konqueror, Opera) - but when it comes to Apple browsers (Mac-MSIE, Safari, Omniweb, iCab, and others), and there's no Mac around to test, how can you tell if things will work out fine? I personally experienced a CSS border directive on an input tag that completely messed up a simple document. There are some CSS compatablity sheets (this comes to mind), but can you test further than that? is there any way a web developer can check for Apple-browser-compliance without a Mac?" If only HTML validation were as simple as submitting pages to the proper emulator, and viewing the results.

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The best way by Henry+V+.009 · 2003-09-11 11:34 · Score: -1, Troll

The best way to help out the Apple community is to specifically design your web pages to be viewable by IE but not any other browser. That will help disabuse non-Windows programmers from the foolish idea that there is some web standard other than "it works on IE." They will work on making their browsers into better IE clones rather than by wasting time on something foolish idea of independant standards that could obviously never gain the influence on designers Microsoft has. Moreover, breaking your web page for non-Windows users will accustom those users to having an inferior experience without Windows. That way they don't have to be surprised when they discover it later.