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Safari still stumbles on sites
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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Somehow the wife's karma is such that she has to visit sites that choke with Safari. (I can't remember the last site I visited and had trouble.)
She goes to reserve airport parking or make a subscription (see:
http://www.suscriba.com/
http://www.airportparkingreservations.com )
and spends 15 minutes making selections, entering credit card info, etc...
At the last moment (clicking 'PURCHASE') she gets no response... waiting for two or three minutes.
Finally she gives up and goes to IE 5.2 and has no problem.
What is it that mungs up Safari? Something common to shopping cart / E-Commerce?
Really a bummer for Mac users. (Yes, we could also try Camino or Omni or FoxFire, but I still think it's a bummer - especially for those new to Mac and who start stumbling on basic web stuff that was never a problem on IE / PC.)
We can curse the web designers but will THEY care? What to do? When might this situ improve?
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TOMBSTONE: "He's trashed his last preferences"
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Manchester,UK
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when might this situ improve?
When they stop building sites for IE (with maybe a cursuary test in Firefox), and start building to standards instead of IE's quirks.
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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Yeah, it's just lazy developers. Instead of trying to follow web standards, they make their site work in the most popular browser and that's it. It's the same story with hardware support and drivers.
What you can try is to enable the debug menu in safari with tinkertool and then set Safari to identify itself as IE. That works for some sites.
It doesn't always work though and I have to use IE for online banking because some things like my balance sheet just refuse to load. The only solution is on the end of the web developers and I doubt they will ever change.
In many ways, I can understand where they are coming from. They might have to use 1.5x more time supporting a browser that <3% of the world use. Their reasoning would probably include that people will just resort to using what does work so the problem is solved as far as they are concerned. It only pisses off the minority but that's the way it always is.
I think Mac users should be treated as a minority group and we can sue for discrimination. The amount of times I go into a PC store and am treated like a pariah at the first mention of Mac, it's ridiculous.
Mostly, the only site that really pisses me off these days with Safari is this forum. My CPU goes through the roof with those dumb ads. I don't mind the ads being there but make them more CPU friendly.
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Join Date: Jul 2000
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I tend to have Safari uexpectedly quit intermittently when trying to go to links on two specific pages: The yahoo.com news page, and the rockymountainnews.com page. Can anyone else confirm that they have the same issue?
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"In reality, it's an atom disguising itself as a warthog."
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Originally Posted by Brownjer
I tend to have Safari uexpectedly quit intermittently when trying to go to links on two specific pages: The yahoo.com news page, and the rockymountainnews.com page. Can anyone else confirm that they have the same issue?
Despite also being in CO, I only occasionally visit rockymountainnews.com, but when I have I haven't had a problem. any particular types of links that crash Safari?
As for yahoo... I'm more partial to BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/default.stm
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