Anyone using Safari, please help

I use a PC with Windows XP and have tested my website with IE,

Netscape, and Firefox and it seems to work fine. Another

photographer friend who uses Mac said the images on my website were

showing up in Safari all distorted. I went online and checked

compatibility at <a href="http://www.snugtech.com/safaritest/">

Safari Test</a> and it looks fine to me. If anyone who is using

Safari would check my <a

href="http://www.jstonephotography.com/wedding.htm"> Wedding

Gallery</a> and tell me how it looks I would appreciate it. Also if

it does look strange...any ideas on what is wrong?

thumbnails look good but the larger images are streatched

Yer, most large images are distorted, layout is nice though.<div></div>

Other pages work....<div></div>

Any ideas as to why it is doing that? Thanks for checking:)

Hi Jennifer,

 

I spoke with my husband who's a web designer... Short answer: bad coding. Your website

should be coded and optimized for ALL browsers. The fact that the site doesn't scale

when you shrink a window shows that it was put together poorly.

 

If you did it yourself -- awesome! You have a good solid start! Perhaps you could hire a

web designer to just fine-tune it for you.

 

If you paid someone for this -- bad news. The guys needs to give you your money back.

 

Best,

 

-Anne

Anne, Thanks for checking with your husband. Yes, I designed it myself (with Microsoft Frontpage) and I do know it should be optimized for all browsers, unfortunately as a PC user with no access to Mac's and since Safari only runs on Mac's it is hard to verify compatibility, except for with helpful people like you:) Next year I am budgeting for a web designer:)

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It looks like Safari is trying to stretch the image to fit in the table cell, so I have done some tweaking with the page. Now, the horizontal images should not stretch (fingers crossed). I would appreciate another look to see if this is true <a href="http://www.jstonephotography.com/wedding.htm">wedding gallery</a>, and also if the vertical images are stretched at all.

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Thanks so much for all your help.

The following images are still stretched:

 

Line 1, L to R: 2,3,5,7,9,10,11,13

 

line 2, L to R: 1,2,3,4,5,12,13

 

Nice photos tho.

 

Best of luck.

Safari seems to stretch all my vertical and square images. The large images are placed in a table cell. My first change was to put in a new table cell that was the same size as the horizontal images, but realized that was not going to help with the vertical and square images. So my next change which I just did, was to remove the large image from the table and make it "free float" on the page. Hopefully that will work!

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So, anyone willing to help me one more time? If this doesn't work...I give up:( <a href="http://www.jstonephotography.com/wedding.htm">wedding gallery</a>

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I'm glad like the pics, even though they are distorted. Thanks!

Using Safari, I'm still getting stretched images. I work as a web developer, and I'd blame

Frontplague... er, I mean Frontpage. The javascript functions Frontpage uses assume all

the images to be switched out in the main box are the same size. One solution would be

to make all the large images exactly the same size, adding white space in photoshop with

canvas-size if needed.

Jeff...great idea! Frontplague...that's funny! I did take out the image size in the html coding, which seems to work for other browsers, but not Safari. I wonder why? I am going to try your workaround...THANKS!

I'm at work using windows now, but please, don't us FrontPage! The code it generates is so incredibly poor, unoptimized, and often only works in IE for Windows.

 

Recommend Adoge GoLive or Macromedia Dreamweaver (FYI - Adobe bought macromedia)

 

Aaron Lee

Aaron...Unfortunately Frontpage is all that I have right now. I am planning to upgrade my site in the future, so thanks for the suggestions on the programs. Is Dreamweaver hard to learn?

Well, I have a different answer...I'm running Safari 1.3.2, which is the latest version, and the Weddings, and Featured Wedding are perfect...the Portraits are definately distorted.

Charles...I fixed the Featured Weddings page, but forgot all about the Portrait page...thanks for pointing that out!

So, why does the wealthiest software company on this planet produce software that is

mediocre (at best)? Surely they don't think lowly OS X/Safari is a threat.

 

Granted Safari has maybe 5% market share, but standards are standards, sigh.

If you're interested in another re-check (using Safari 1.3.2, OS 10.3.9 - oh, and for

giggles, IE 5.2 for Mac) - all looks perfect to me. Nice site!

What did you end up doing? Your site looks great now and I'm having the same problem.

I've been trying to 'reverse-engineer' your code, but can't figure out what exactly you did.

 

thanks