# Macs do not like my site

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macs-do-not-like-my-site/217271
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [December 5, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macs-do-not-like-my-site/217271 "2003-12-05T23:55:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![aka\_10003](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@aka\_10003](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aka_10003)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macs-do-not-like-my-site/217271/1 "2003-12-05T23:55:08Z")

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I have a web site that works just fine, or so I thought.

some people, all Mac users, told me that images do not load, and that links are leading to Page Not Found. It all works just fine from Windows.

any ideas out there? thanks

(the site is [www.MrKam.com](http://www.MrKam.com))

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### Author: ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macs-do-not-like-my-site/217271/2 "2003-12-06T01:14:24Z")

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Your images have backslashes in the pathnames. The Mac browsers are being standards-compliant and not translating them to forward slashes.

/share\white.gif should be /share/white.gif

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### Author: ![aka\_10003](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@aka\_10003](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aka_10003)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macs-do-not-like-my-site/217271/3 "2003-12-06T02:14:29Z")

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Should have known, Thanks.

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### Author: ![aka\_10003](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@aka\_10003](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aka_10003)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macs-do-not-like-my-site/217271/4 "2003-12-06T02:24:59Z")

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…but this does not explain why the links (Read, Watch) are not working.

still looking…

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### Author: ![Bag\_of\_Mostly\_Water](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bag_of_mostly_water/32/1029_2.png) [@Bag\_of\_Mostly\_Water](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bag_of_Mostly_Water)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macs-do-not-like-my-site/217271/5 "2003-12-06T03:54:45Z")

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I tried a few of the links in Safari under MacOS 10.3. Some work, some do not. The ones which don’t work seem to have the infamous backslash rather than the standard forward slash. For example, \<[http://www.mrkam.com/read/readb\readb.htm](http://www.mrkam.com/read/readb%5Creadb.htm)\>.

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### Author: ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macs-do-not-like-my-site/217271/6 "2003-12-06T04:05:03Z")

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Validate it! Find all of your problems in one fell swoop, and then fix them.

[http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.MrKam.com/](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.MrKam.com/)

Not good juju there, my friend.

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### Author: ![aka\_10003](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@aka\_10003](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aka_10003)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2003, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macs-do-not-like-my-site/217271/7 "2003-12-06T04:33:03Z")

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Thanks, all.