I've been using the Zen Grid framework to great effect and am delighted with the possibilities.

This is almost a general question:
I tried looking at my present working site using an old Mac on OS 10.3 (the wonderful angle poise iMac) which still runs very well in my office.
Unfortunately most of the menus and galleries/prettyboxes etc...didn't work as they should, often they just listed all the photos down the page instead of the slideshow!

It got me wondering if there was a way to make the site backward-compatible where it would disable the fancy stuff and at least keep the general layout and text and navigation working.

I presume old windows systems might react the same, I've only tested it in Vista and the latest windows.

here is my site in progress: www.limprimerie.ch/grid

Any thoughts anyone?

Sean

That's the sort of thing that you see if Javascript is disabled/blocked.

Do you have any script-blockers running on that machine. In general, these things are pretty much independant of OS, it is more about the capabilities of the browser. Older browsers struggle sure.

I am not a Mac user, but there is nothing to stop you upgrading to the latest available browser versions is there? Like I said, you should check you have not disabled Javascript loading in the browser though.

Hey Sean,

Which browser are you using and what version? If its old then it might just be a legacy for early versions of Safari.

Thanks Anthony

yes its an old version of safari, I never upgrade that machine as it works fine for what we all need it for.

My concern was more in case other people visit my site with outdated browsers and think the site isn't working.

Thanks for the answers anyway. Short of a disclaimer about having newish software , I'm not sure what to do really.

Which version specifically?

Safari 1.3.2

But I'm pretty sure its not the browser at fault here as I got the same result from Firefox, albeit the version 2.xx

I upgraded the system to Mac OS 10.4 , which of course upgraded Javascript (in fact there was a further upgrade once installed)

Using the same browser versions, the site worked fine.
The worry of old systems is still there, even though it might be negligible. (not everyone is conscientious about keeping their computer up to date)

Yeah they are verrrry old versions of the browser. No real way I could support them actually. Im am reluctant to add any support for ie6 and I only do that because of member requests and browser share. Safari1 and firefox2 will have such a small % of visitors ...

Anthony

Ok Anthony you put my mind at rest
Thanks

Cool glad to hear it Sean