I use a proprietory piece of software here at work, which outputs a website. This is fine.

Viewing the index page in IE yields the expected navigation down the left hand side, as it looks when assembled and used via the software assembler or software viewer.

However, I just wandered into a meeting with a Mac user. Everything was going really well untill I handed the site over. He opens it up and .............

nothing.

I assume this is to do with the output being XML-based somewhere along the line, a Microsoft flavour of XML parser and there not being an appropriate extension in Firefox or in Safari.

Suggestions? Work-arounds (that dont involve re-writing the entire application, thats not my job anyway!)

signed,

Mrs Trellis,

Cornwall.......

You may need to post some more info (or a link to some example code) unless this rings a bell with anyone...

let me rephrase that.............

the LRN Viewer opens an IMS Manifest XML file, and then builds a website using the file references contained within that xml file.

and microsoft have a deviant extension in their xml parser that isn't in firefox or safari.

is there any application that will do this..........?

Or do I have to *shudder* learn to code myself.....??!? :(

Not really sure if this is of use, but I've come across some issues where Firefox is quite "picky" about the MIME type of the stylesheets and the like. Namely, if we serve a page off Tomcat, it won't style correctly on Firefox as it's not serving the stylesheet as the correct type. Do it off Apache, and it works fine.

Not sure if it's something like this...?

Rob.

Not sure if it's something like this...?

Rob.

That makes two of us........

The idea behind the system is that you don't have to stay connected to it any longer than is necessary to actually download a block of "learning resources"' date=' which you then go away and work through as you see fit.

So I'm only interested in the display of these SCORM compliant units. Which can viewed either through the application (best way, full tracking etc) or via a simple web-browser.

it's this last bit that's causing headaches.

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and the download the zip file

Innovation Cells.

Open up the index page in IE to see "how it should look" and then dump it onto Firefox or Safari.

Suggestions welcomed.

Haven't got FF at work (doesn't get through our MS proxy), but have you tried changing the script tags from

to

[code]

Maybe try running the source code through a validator (HTML and CSS), and look into what the javascript is doing - it's probably using an IE-extension...

Will have a proper play whenever I get home today!

Definitely worth running your pages through http://validator.w3.org for a sanity check. You can check your CSS stuff through there, too.

Sorry to hear about your problems. :confused: Just wish I could offer something practical for your instance. I think it has much less to do with PC/Mac incompatibilities than the dreaded MS user agent (browser) ones. Even if you design and code a website using standards based (X)HTML and CSS, viewing the site on mac and pc browsers running their own flavours of IE will generate unpredictable problems. The web industry has chalked up quite a bit of overtime recoding websites for browser compatibility. On the upside, most, including MS are coming round to accept common standards as set out by W3C.