“We’ve been working long and hard to get our web application compatible with the Safari browser, so we’re pleased to announce that Safari users can finally use Zillow by downloading the beta of Safari 3.0,; David Golightly, UX Developer reports via Zillow Blog. “Sorry for the delay!”
“A lot of users have asked us why it’s taken us so long. That’s a good question, and I can assure you that it’s not without good reason. Zillow is interested in developing innovative techniques for organizing and presenting a huge volume of information, and in doing, so we’re pushing browsers to their limits. When Zillow was originally launched, back in February 2006, we were using technologies offered by Internet Explorer and Firefox, but Safari had not yet developed those capabilities (specifically, XSLT support in Javascript),” Golightly reports.
“To get Zillow running on Safari on your Mac (and now Windows!) users can upgrade their Safari browser to version 3 (beta), which supports the Zillow site. The official launch of Safari 3.0 should roll out by October, for those of you who are willing to wait,” Golightly reports. “Thanks for your patience!”
Zillow.com is here.
Safari 3.0.2 Public Beta for Mac and Windows download link here.
My buddy works managing 3 real estate offices here in socal and she’s gonna be happy to hear this. It was the only thing keeping her from getting an iphone.
Oh REALLY?
This is the page that came up for me:
http://www.zillow.com/static/pages/BrowserSafariNotSupported.html
Mr. Reeeee
Do you have Safari 3.0 installed?
Thats because you are using safari 2 not the new beta.
Code for standards, not browsers.
Is the stupidity running amok on this site today or what? It’s like all the people here that think Zune Tang actually uses windows. His entire persona is meant to point out how Microsoft has repeatedly followed Apple for over 20 years now.
MDN Word…”will”
Will you all take a stupid pill and please download Safari 3.0 beta before going to web sites that don’t support prior versions of the browser.
“We’ve been working long and hard to get our web application compatible with Safari…”
marketing speak for
“We’ve been sipping lattes and reading the comics waiting for Apple to implement XSTL support. So our app now works in Safari through no work whatsoever on our part.”
“We’ve been working long and hard to get our web application compatible with the Safari browser …”
What is so difficult to comply to the W3C standard, is it because your website is crippled with IE6 codes?
I call BS on Zillow’s “breakthrough”. For years I’ve been purchasing travel and other services, using web email services, searching for cars to buy, looking at maps, playing games, watching videos, and reading MacDailyNews — all on the then-current version of Safari! Thanks Zillow, I’ve got one more real estate web service out of the many that already exist for Safari 2.0 should I get in the mood for selling my house.
What Safari needs is the MLXchange. That’s what we agents use. IE explorer 7 and up only. This Zillow site is a joke.
Unfortunately the real estate business is very dependent on micro$oft software. I don’t know how that happened, but most realtors know very little about computers so I guess “experts” set up most of what we use . Most mls’ are windows only. The weird thing is, the public site on the mls I use works with macs with no problem. But not the realtor only part, I have to use the Citrix ICA client to use it on my mac. Very annoying at times. But it getting better slowly.
Now we need redfin to work on Safari.
Does not work for me either and I have Safari 3. (which is great, by the way)
I was in real estate for 4 years. There are many real estate listing sites out there, so it will be a one at a time process taking years.
Also, most of the web based sites are intended for consumer use and are different from what the real estate boards use, most of which were created with Microsoft’s “help.”
The sites used by the real estate boards have all the listing information, and use much more highly developed relational database information which allow for more sophisticated information sorting and reporting than what the public will want to deal with. What they want is where the home is located, the price, the number of bedrooms, square footage, but not much more. In other words, the quick condensed version.
If you as an agent tell your real estate board that the application that they buy (they never develop their own) does not meet web standards, it will have no effect, because they have invested 25 times too many dollars in the package that they have and would have to have the votes of a majority of hundreds of board members to change.
I just gave up and ran Virtual PC which did quite well, actually.
Don’t bother coming back with the crap about how business people are stupid and all that. Some are, but no higher a percentage than the people who post to this board. If Apple had been friendly to business in the early days, it would all be different. Business people are your friends and neighbors, not some odd species who live in a different world from you.
The last couple of years give me more hope than ever, though, that things could change,
Today zillow.com tomorrow the world
Amazing how fast a site renders on Safari 3 when it follows current web standards rather than the “I’ll just throw it up there cause IE handles it” path. Wake up developers! Time to update archaic code.
Kudos to Zillow’s site developer.
Web standards project –
<http://www.webstandards.org>
have you noticed that MDN deletes the comments that they don’t like?
what about free speech?!
MDN users: if they delete this comment too, please try to point it out.
Cheers
that’s weird… ’cause i used Zillow on my Mac with Safari in the past with no problems.
hmmmm.
hey, “eh”…
deleted or edited comments/posts depend on the sensibilities of who’s moderating at the time. a few years ago someone at MDN edited or deleted some of my posts as soon as i submitted them but when i made similar posts later in the day they stayed. can be a bit frustrating. but it’s not nearly as bad as CNET.
chances are… this will disappear too.
to ‘eh’:
I noticed that too. MDN deleted a few of my comments, and since then I try not to post something ‘they don’t like’.
Tempus Fugit, Dolita
Don’t you find this weird and NOT right!
where do we live?
You have a “right” to freedom of speech. That means freedom from governmental interference. Freedom of speech does not carry over to non-governmental organizations. Try to smart off to your boss sometime and see what freedoms you have!
I totally agree with the webber post. Design for web standards not browsers.
Zillow.com loads up on iPhone Safari, in case any one hasn’t noticed.
zillow no more works than there is a man in the moon.
It comes up – and puts my house at the other end of the street. So how can this be reliable – when it doesn’t even show the correct end of the street.
works great for me although I didn’t sign up. using safari Version 3.0.2 (522.12).