You lot probably all know by now that I've been doing PHP/HTML/Javascript programming for a few months for a crust. Well, we've been targetting IE5.5 for a number of reasons, but our app needs to run on Macs, too. The obvious target is IE5.1.

Except it runs like a legless dog.

Does this bear out with anyone's experiences? Is there some subtle-but-easy configuration tweak that makes it at least a little more like a scalded cat? (If there isn't, then we're probably going to give up IE 5.1/Mac for dead and concentrate next on making our app work right in Netscape 6 instead.)

Wade.

Including that elderly 233MHz box running OS 8.6. :-)

However, we've discovered that IE waits for a page, even if it's been given redirection headers. And guess what: our code uses lots of redirects. :-/ Well, change the redirect function to add a basic page and I'm told it's a lot faster.

So.

Wade.

AFAIK, there's one page that don't go in IE 5.1. Once that's fixed, the next in line is either NS6.2 or Moz 1.0. Accomodating that may be harder, as there are some layout issues - basically, we've coded to IE's layout bugs and it's about to come back and bite us. :-/

Opera is a Later Thing as it doesn't (yet) support two or three key pieces of DHTML yet. I believe I've mentioned that elsewhere here on IWETHEY and yes, I am disappointed. Fortunately, Opera is aware of the lack, because lots of people have requested these features, so support for them is coming!

Wade.