No SA Plans to Welcome MacUsers
Feb 18, 2008 | 10:10 pm
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No SA Plans to Welcome MacUsers
If you use a Mac, don't hold your breath waiting for Star Alliance to make their website work for you. I already asked.
Feb 19, 2008 | 4:56 am
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Feb 19, 2008 | 5:38 am
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Just to play Devil's Advocate a bit, but Safari is a royal pain to design properly for. Not that it's a bad browser but as far as the average web designer goes, there is no easy way from a Windows platform to test for it. Setting up a separate UNIX/Mac system with KHTML is one of those things that many designers may just avoid. A lot of designers ignore Opera for this reason as well, even if there is Win build of it.
Browser compatibility is at best irritating, but made even more so when there are no tools for your platform to test for a specific situation.
Standards! I thought we had these for a reason.
Browser compatibility is at best irritating, but made even more so when there are no tools for your platform to test for a specific situation.
Standards! I thought we had these for a reason.
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Feb 19, 2008 | 5:53 am
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Just to play Devil's Advocate a bit, but Safari is a royal pain to design properly for. Not that it's a bad browser but as far as the average web designer goes, there is no easy way from a Windows platform to test for it. Setting up a separate UNIX/Mac system with KHTML is one of those things that many designers may just avoid. A lot of designers ignore Opera for this reason as well, even if there is Win build of it.
Browser compatibility is at best irritating, but made even more so when there are no tools for your platform to test for a specific situation.
Browser compatibility is at best irritating, but made even more so when there are no tools for your platform to test for a specific situation.
Additionally, if tested in Firefox (Standard, anyone?) 99% of all bugs are gone for Safari. So it really is just laziness of the *A website programmer.
But in reply to the OP: Maybe we should ask again (and again) so they realize there is a market and a customerinterest?
Feb 19, 2008 | 7:58 am
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Feb 19, 2008 | 12:13 pm
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Feb 19, 2008 | 3:57 pm
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Maybe if Steve asks... 
Couldn't Apple employees, then the people who read Mac news sites, set up a lobby/pressure/petition site to embarrass *A or its web designer into action?
A MS 'standard' is not a web standard!
Couldn't Apple employees, then the people who read Mac news sites, set up a lobby/pressure/petition site to embarrass *A or its web designer into action?
A MS 'standard' is not a web standard!
Feb 19, 2008 | 10:45 pm
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Which browser? I get:
Unexpected Error
staralliance.com has encountered an unexpected error <-2f3e0f20:1181bc62c36:-7aca>.
For some reason we cannot find the page you are looking for. We apologise for this. To move on, please try one of the following options:
View a complete list of all the entries on the sitemap link in the footer
Use the main navigation on top of this page to proceed
If all else fails, send an E-mail to [email protected] stating "error code"
So I emailed and they say they have no plans for a Mac-friendly version.
Unexpected Error
staralliance.com has encountered an unexpected error <-2f3e0f20:1181bc62c36:-7aca>.
For some reason we cannot find the page you are looking for. We apologise for this. To move on, please try one of the following options:
View a complete list of all the entries on the sitemap link in the footer
Use the main navigation on top of this page to proceed
If all else fails, send an E-mail to [email protected] stating "error code"
So I emailed and they say they have no plans for a Mac-friendly version.
Feb 20, 2008 | 4:51 am
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And as far as the comment on standards, I don't consider MS standards to be "standards". W3C and CSS standards, yes. Whatever hack-job IE is using now, no. But nobody conforms to W3C or CSS anyway, it seems. That said, a designer should at least test across as many browsers as possible. I am glad to hear there's a Safari for Win platforms now, though. Been a while since I've done a serious site design, but I'll try to test it next time I do something.
Feb 20, 2008 | 5:09 am
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If the site works on IE, does not mean it used standards. Someone used
MS tools to build so it works well with MS.. If they really followed standards
while building the web site, it should work on all browsers.
MS tools to build so it works well with MS.. If they really followed standards
while building the web site, it should work on all browsers.
Feb 20, 2008 | 5:36 am
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Assuming all other browsers follow those standards. Not trying to defend MS here, their "adherence" to standards is rubbish at best. But every browser has quirks. Sites that work well in FF don't in Safari, or Opera, etc.