WebDialog in MacOSX
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Does the Sketchup WebDialog only use Internet Explorer for Mac? or is there a way of changing it to use the Safari engine or something else (anything other than Internet Explorer for Mac)? I'm just wondering because when I port my plugin to My Mac, the plugin's UI renders completely differently to what I expect.
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It seems to me that Safari is (should be) supported in the Mac environment, not IE. Have a look at the system requirements here:
http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=36208 -
Hmm... maybe I'll try and delete IE and see what happens (I never use it anyway). I'm pretty sure it is IE that is running as the WebDialog though.
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I am on Windows and have IE but only for two things;
- there are some websites that simply do not work in other browsers (bad way of programming) and when I make a website I need it (and all major browsers as well) to test them (not to create them in this "bad way).
Otherwise I don't use it.
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Yeah, I would say that with Windows IE is a must (I also only use it for testing sites etc, but apparently most people are still using it for general browsing
). With Mac OSX IE was a completely different (much much worse) version to the windows one and isn't even supported by MS anymore. It comes bundled with Office for Mac so I think if I delete it the WebDialog in Sketchup will improve (hopefully). I'm not on my Mac right now so I can't try it till later. -
It sounds bad, actually.
Lately I have Safari for Windows but that's also still in beta (at least my copy) and I know it is not working the same way it is on a Mac.
Too bad if I want to optimize a website for Safari as well. -
SketchUp on Windows uses IE for webdialogs (not FireFox, not Opera, etc.). Sketchup on the Mac only uses Safari for webdialogs.
Are you saying that if IE is installed on the Mac, that SketchUp is using IE in preference over Safari? This is new news if this is so. And, a pain in the hiney for webdialog developers, because some of us (err, me!) don't have IE for Mac. I bought a Mac to distance myself away from IE and MS Office.
Todd
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