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Site Content Editor Not Mac Friendly!!

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h0kie99

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So I just started working as a project manager for an internet consulting group. I am working from home, managing web design projects, etc. So I went on this one website for the production center we use, and I cannot get into the Site Content Editor because I am using my mac! I called support and they said it was because they only support PCs... their advice was to switch to a PC. Um, not possible! So, what do I do? This seems ridiculous to me... I thought most web designers would be using macs, but I guess I'm wrong?!? And what if you sell a site to a company who uses macs... then they can't get into their own SCE. ?!?

UGH!
 
Are you accessing this site through your browser? If so, is the site really restricted to PC, or is it just looking at your browser to determine your platform? If the latter, you can tell Safari to disguise itself as PC IE by using the debug menu:

While not running Safari, go to Terminal and type:

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

Then you can use the Debug menu and tell it to show the Windows MSIE 6.0 User Agent. Worth a shot.
 
Have you tried <trying not to get sick>Internet Explorer for Mac</trying not to get sick>? My girlfriend, who is a webdesigner, has to use IE on some web based editors, as no thing else, short of getting a PC, would help...

Have you tried Firefox (or Mozilla/Netscape), by the way...?
 
Yah, chances are you are not going to be able to find a solution for your Apple. We actually have a CMS editor that will only work on IE for PC. It sucks, but its the most widely used browser.
 
Thanks for the responses!

I am at my "other job" right now using a PC so I can't try the "disguising Safari" thing right now, but maybe later tonight... however, I do believe it is software I need to download from the vendor, and they only deal with PCs. It just baffles me!! I would suggest going with a different vendor, but this company has 5 of the top 10 programs out there, so the business isn't going to use a less popular software just so I can use my Mac. Unfortunately.

I tried IE on my Mac and it still didn't work...

So, I'm thinking I need to get a second computer... a PC. Yikes! Doesn't that seem like such a waste of money and so inefficient? Because I will want to use my Mac for everything, and then just use the PC for this one piece of the puzzle. Ugh... how annoying.
 
h0kie99 said:
Thanks for the responses!

I am at my "other job" right now using a PC so I can't try the "disguising Safari" thing right now, but maybe later tonight... however, I do believe it is software I need to download from the vendor, and they only deal with PCs. It just baffles me!! I would suggest going with a different vendor, but this company has 5 of the top 10 programs out there, so the business isn't going to use a less popular software just so I can use my Mac. Unfortunately.

I tried IE on my Mac and it still didn't work...

So, I'm thinking I need to get a second computer... a PC. Yikes! Doesn't that seem like such a waste of money and so inefficient? Because I will want to use my Mac for everything, and then just use the PC for this one piece of the puzzle. Ugh... how annoying.
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some CMS systems like Microsloth's CMS require a plugin in the browser that loads Word, yes Word, as your HTML content editor. these will not work on the mac side, and frankly they are ***** at writing code.
 
You could just get Virtual PC for your Mac, rather than an entirely new computer.

As far as the CMS that requires a download... I'm with you on that, I hate when companies use proprietary OS based software for any portion of their websites. My biggest peeve (until they recently fixed it) was ESPN, but they have come through huge on the motion portion of their site to make it cross browser compliant. Yahoo fantasy football also has a java based "Stat Tracker" that they've just completely redone, however for some reason it's disabled in Safari, and all other browsers I have installed on here. They have a work-around with the classic version, but why spend all the development time on this new tool and not spend the extra hour or two to test it with some other browsers???? I mean it's Yahoo! And they charged me $10 to have the priviledge of using it, yes I paid, but I'm whining about it now.
 
Great! Is this a safe alternative? I mean, "putting a little PC" in my mac... is that going to hurt it? :)
 
h0kie99 said:
Great! Is this a safe alternative? I mean, "putting a little PC" in my mac... is that going to hurt it? :)
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No - VPC is completely self-contained so the cancer won't spread :D

That is not to say it's blazingly fast, but it should probably do what you need.
 
h0kie99 said:
Great! Is this a safe alternative? I mean, "putting a little PC" in my mac... is that going to hurt it? :)
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just make sure you have enough memory. my 768MB are pretty much the minimum acceptable.
 
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