macintosh users

[estraus]

I'm testing our message board (version 2.0.3) on a macintosh (OS 9.2) using IE 5 and it runs sooo slow it's sick. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Our previous Vbulletin (version 1.1.4) ran really quick on IE mac. I just don't get it!

What's really strange is that it seems to run a lot faster on IE and Netscape for windows. It also runs pretty fast in netscape on Mac (OS 9.2).

Is anyone else having this problem?? It's driving me insane and I can't figure out if it's an IE problem with the new version of Vbulletin or possibly a problem with OS 9.2 and IE 5.

I believe the last time I tested vbulletin on mac I was using IE 5 on OS 9.1 and it was screaming fast.

Thanks in advance everyone.

[tubedogg]

This is the first time I've heard of any speed problems on the Mac.

This would have to be a client-side (IE or MacOS) problem as the server isn't reliant on the client for the speed - once the server is done with it, how fast it gets displayed is the client's responsibility. So if it's running OK on IE for Wintel, that would indicate a client problem to me, especially if it's ok on Netscape for Mac.

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[thewitt]

IE for the Mac and IE for Windoze use different browser parsing engines, and the Mac version is much more sensitive to poorly written HTML than the Windoze version is. If you have modified templates and they are not legal HTML, you can be creating problems for yourself. Validate all your HTML and correct any errors unless you are certain they are not a problem.

You should also make sure you are running the latest Java Virtual Machine on the Mac. There are some versions that are dog slow.

-t

[estraus]

thanks

good ideas thewitt. I'll look into it.