Problem with picture positioning in Safari 4

[fengyuan]

I updated a website for my boss using Dreamweaver CS4 (somebody else made this before, I don't have a lot knowledge about web design). It looks fine in IE, Firefox and Safari 5.0. But he told me the pictures is not in the right place in Safari 4.

I really didn't change anything except the name of the image. But he is sure that it looks fine in Safari 4 'before' I made changes. Is that possible?

Anyway, this is the code that seems to related to the positioning of the picture.

<div id="imgBox" style="height: 1px;">
<div style="position: absolute; top: -13px; z-index: 1; right: 0px;"><img
src="imgs/page1.png" alt="img"></div>

And this is the site:
http://www.solarnyc.com/lightingworkshop/

 

[anna]

I don't see any difference. I looked at the site in both FF and Safari 4.0

Which picture are you talking about?

 

[fengyuan]

I think it was the pictures on the right side. He said it was floating on the top-left corner in his safari browser. I have Safari 5.0 and I have troubles to install an older version of Safari.

 

[anna]

Here's a screenshot from Safari 4.0



I don't see anything different, do you??

 

[fengyuan]

Thanks! Yeah, it seems it looks fine. Maybe he has an even older version of safari.

 

[anna]

Yeah, he can check his version by clicking on the little wheel looking thing and select "about safari"

Looks like it works fine but good luck!

 

[LouTheDesigner]

First, I would ask him to clear his cache and cookies. I would then have him update his browser anyway.

-Lou

 

[fengyuan]

Thanks! The problem is that he is pissed that somebody who has an older version of safari will see that the site is a mess. And I don't really know enough about web design to know what is the problem.

 

[sysgenmedia]

Hi Fengyuan,

While as a web developer I pride myself on cross-browser compatibility, we really need to draw the line somewhere. While I don't like doing it, I'll generally still design for IE as far back as IE6 since corporations are still using it in large numbers.

However, I think it's reasonable to discount Safari 3.0 and lower. It doesn't have the corporate following and generally Safari users are fairly good at keeping up to date.

If you'd like some numbers to back you up here, check out this from W3Schools. Note that even that is outdated

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_safari.asp

It's a subset of the browser usage stats that they've compiled, located here:

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Basically, 0.2% of people included in their survey are using Safari 3.0.(I haven't looked into how they've arrived at these numbers, but in general I would trust they're close to accurate). I'd say that this is fairly negligible and probably not worth the time to worry over.

Best,
Nathan

 

[celinar]

well i suggest you to update your browser may be old browser has not the same coding which new one has..