How to use a Mac with websites that require Internet Explorer

On 26-Jun-2009, at 16:04, Adam Engst wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Edward Reid<edwardpaleo.org> wrote:
>> At 6/20/2009 02:12 AM -0700, Adam Engst wrote:
>>>
>>> There are still some errors, but it looks like they fall into
>>> three categories, one of which is basically an unencoded ampersand
>>> and
>>> the other two of which look pretty minor as well.
>>
>> Minor as in easy to fix, yes (though I don't understand one of them).
>> Minor in their effects on the predictability of rendering, no. As I
>> understand it (and I don't claim to be an expert here), even minor
>> errors throw the browser out of standards mode and into quirks mode.
>> "Almost standard" is the same as "not standard".
>
> Does anyone have any hard information on this "quirks" mode and how
> we'd know if our site was causing browsers to go into it? IE6 is low
> on our priority list, but my understanding is that our site renders
> fine in all modern browsers, particularly those on the Mac.

The Web Developer bar in Firefox will tell you if a site is in quirk
mode (a ~ on the bar) or in compliance mode (a check mark in the same
place). Here's a picture of the bar in both states:

http://home.kreme.com/quirks.html

For the record, TidBITS.com renders in compliant mode.

On Jun 29, 2009, at 6:10 PM, LuKreme wrote:

> On 26-Jun-2009, at 16:04, Adam Engst wrote:

>> Does anyone have any hard information on this "quirks" mode and how
>> we'd know if our site was causing browsers to go into it? IE6 is low
>> on our priority list, but my understanding is that our site renders
>> fine in all modern browsers, particularly those on the Mac.
>
> The Web Developer bar in Firefox will tell you if a site is in quirk
> mode (a ~ on the bar) or in compliance mode (a check mark in the same
> place). Here's a picture of the bar in both states:

Or just use Firefox's built-in Get Info, check the Render Mode under
the General tab.

Here's a possibly universal method I just found. Browse to the page
you're interested in then enter this in any(?) browser's address bar:

javascript:alert(document.compatMode)

If the alert says CSS1Compat, the page was rendered in Standards mode.

I found this looking at information about IE but it works in Firefox
and Safari for OS X.

http://dorward.me.uk/www/bookmarklets/qors/