“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.
Yippee! Now I don’t have to commit suicide!
Zillow rhymes with pillow. And that’s how I feel about this story. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
MikeR,
i agree with you. but MDN claim that they are about the “right” things and open mind and blah blah blah
how can you trust a source that dictates what you are supposed to say?
“eh” and MikeR,
i might get edited for this but…
i consider MDM a starting place, news bits, blurbs… if i want “news” i visit several other sites and separate the wheat from the chaff. here… it’s just fun to watch noobs and flamebaiters make themselves look silly. and nothing racks up hits at MDN like politics. all one has to do is mention “conservative” or “liberal” and that’s good for at least 100 posts. just take the place with a grain of salt. generally, i have the most fun reading what ChrissyOne has to say. she’s a hoot!
hey, Chrissy! why don’cha start yer own blog?!
“In other news, the US has officially dumped the archaic English system and adopted the world-wide metric system.”
Things like that I want to hear every day
@Jeff
“‘ 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?”
They mention JavaScript issues. There are no real standards for those – apart from ECMAScript. Safari hasn’t had very full JS support in the past, although they’ve worked very hard to add it, and Safari 3 has a lot more. They also mention XSLT, so they were really pushing the envelope here.
It’s not the developers coding to IE6’s peculiarities, since the site apparently worked fine with Mozilla browsers. And, since we know, anyway, what the problem was — that Safari lacked full support for the languages they were using.
There are incompetent developers out there, but that’s not the only reason for a site failing to work with an (older) version of Safari. In this case we *know* it’s that Safari 2 was not up to snuff, as they explained.
Even in cases where we don’t know, I’d be inclined to give a website the benefit of the doubt. Safari 3 is capable of dealing with rich-text functionality in GMail’s web interface, but even version 3 can’t deal with the chat functionality, which, I’d guess, is again down to Safari’s lagging a little on JavaScript/AJAX stuff. Google of all people is hardly coding to IE6. Google has good relations with Apple (c.f. Eric Schmidt, c.f Google maps app on iPhone, etc., etc. …)
Google is doing the best job it can with the tools available. So are many others.
Webber said it perfectly.
Code for STANDARDS, not BROWSERS.
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A little primer on the First Amendment:
The First Amendment says that Congress shall pass no law restricting the freedom of the press. Is MDN Congress? Uhm, no. They are a private organization, and they can block or delete whatever they want.
Guess what? You can do the same thing on your blog.
Guess what? The newspapers do the same thing.
Guess what? Talk radio hosts do the same thing.
If you don’t understand how freedom works (here’s a hint — it’s not the right to force someone else to publish your opinions) then why should WE believe anything that you have to say?
ah, yes… BustingTheSkullsOfIdiots…
a prime flamebaiter. nice to see you expressing your freedoms.
Guess what? No one asked for your “primer”.
and thats me expressing my freedoms.
…and i’ll bow out here with this little, albeit politically incorrect, quote:
Arguing on the internet is a lot like being in the Special Olympics:
even if you win you’re still retarded.
‘bye now.
Tempus Fugit, that’s pathetic. First, Tempus posts a mindless opinion about “free speech.” Then, when BSOI explains why this is a misguided opinion, Tempus argues that no one else should post a different opinion about “free speech.”
Still, love MDN…
I can’t tell you how sick I am of Real Estate websites not being standards compliant! Every single mls admin panel is a piece of garbage that ONLY works in IE!! IE is the last browser I want to use!
I’ve been trying to code my website Real Estate In San Luis Obispo to try and meet everyone’s needs, but IE is the ONLY browser I’ve encountered that gives me problems!! Tell me if anyone else sees problems.
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