Finicky IE for Mac
I received an email the other day at work notifying me that our home page didn’t look very good on Internet Explorer for Macintosh. I pulled it up and sure enough it was just a jumble of garbage. This confused me because I use a Mac and I was sure I’d looked at it on IE, although I knew it was quite a while ago (I usually only use Mozilla or Safari).
Anyway…I noticed when I commented out a few javascript functions that dynamically manipulated a table the page looked fine (from what I’ve read, javascript support is awful on IE for Mac). That would seem to indicate the problem was with the javascript, however the exact same javascript was being used on other pages and worked just fine. I decided to rebuild our homepage starting from scratch, adding things in piece by piece. I discovered a few tables and other tags that weren’t properly closed. When I was finished the page was working on IE for Mac. However…I decided to reload the page a few times just to be sure and was disgusted by what happened. On average if I loaded the page 10 times, 9 times it looked just fine and 1 time it was a jumble of garbage. So, it seems to work 90% of the time. From a computing perspective I’m confused. IE is receiving the exact same code each time but it seems to randomly interpret it differently. Odd.