Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / June 2006

I'm using Excel on a Mac and see a lot of value in "Save as Web Page"
to move workbooks to one or more of my web sites.

My first experiment worked very well, in that the formatting and
content at the site look very much like my original in Excel.

If you want to see the workbook I'm talking about, got to
http://tsx.profitrend.com and click the Data & Charts button.

But there seem to be browser-specific issues, which you might encounter
if you visit my site.

The results look best in Safari (Apple's browser). Second best is
Explorer (minor formatting glitches). And Firefox won't display the
tables and charts at all. Instead I get a code dump.

Now, don't tell me that everyone should be using IE anyway. That's not
a solution.

* IE is losing market share
* IE is not supported on Mac at all anymore (and there'll be no more
upgrades)
* Firefox has the fastest growing user base
* etc etc

Most importantly, a web site manager can't predict which browser is
being used by visitors.

I don't know enough about the code Excel generates in the HTML
conversion process to understand why it's not compatible with all (or
at least most) browsers. Perhaps someone out there has the expertise to
help me out with this.

I obviously don't have any control over Excel's automated conversion,
but maybe there's something I can tweak after the conversion that might
help. It wouldn't be an elegant solution, but I need some sort of fix.

Suggestions?

...Charles