Sick of sites that don't support Macs

[sirstaunch]

I have two banks, one requires IE5+, the other it even let me in using iCab in it's early stages when I was using Classic and only asks for password, not password and security number, wait for java to load and prey it won't hang because the java is too heavy for the browser etc...

[Ashka]

I don't have any problems with the 3 Banking sites I use or my Utility sites.
I do have a problem with one section of my ISP site and tell them to wake up periodically.
Most of us seem to send similar e Mails to suppliers with IE only websites. "Mac Owners only buy the best, from Computers to what ever they are selling". Often get a reply stating they are working on it ..... Too late, I go elsewhere and tell them where :-)

[TommyWillB]

I simply don't spend my money on products made by companies that clearly don't want my business.

My #1 rant in life is wanting to spend money at some company that makes doing so DIFFICULT.

Hell... Don't then want my money? It's here for the taking if they just try...

[Perseus]

iCab? Woah! I test my sites in that browser just for kicks, it supports HTML pretty well, but nothing else!

A fantasy I have: the Universal Broswer. Yay!

[TommyWillB]

Originally Posted by Perseus

iCab? Woah! I test my sites in that browser just for kicks, it supports HTML pretty well, but nothing else!

A fantasy I have: the Universal Broswer. Yay!

Would you like that to "universally" support all of the various security/privacy/virus bugs in today's browsers?

What would you have it do for things that todays browser render differently, and where there is not accepted "right" way to render it? I.e. it has to pick something?

Would it universally support everything including cell phone browsers? I.e. do you want it to render everything in a 200X350 pixel box in the top left corner of your screen?

The fact is that HTML is not meant to impose a specific UI output... It's a markup language to "describe" the content, not a display language. Things get even more interesting when you start adding things like plug-ins, JavaScript, CSS, Flash and other things that are not part of the HTML markup language. Browsers by defination need only support HTML and not all of these other additional things.

A "Universal" browser is a nice dream, but it's a pipe dream as likely to happen as world peace, the elimination of poverty/hunger, and equality and human rights for all. These are good things to strive for, so I'm not suggesting you stop dreaming... I'm simply trying to suggest why it's such a big/difficult request.

Honestly I'd sort of like to see a widely used browser that supports fewer features and functionality. If we can get the builders of web sites to get the basics right, that would eliminate many of the basic usability issues that plague all users on a daily basis... not just Mac Safari users.

[jh2112]

I suspect Perseus meant one browser that does it all on a mac.
I have to use three different browsers just to log in to various financial sites: Safari, Camino (I could also use Firefox,) and IE5.

[karavite]

Hey, I had to wake up the old thread, but I was just at Ikea's site and, no their kitchen planner software (which is actually pretty darn cool) does not run on a Mac, but the download page does say:

"PC running Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT or ME Pentium class processor with at least 128 MB of RAM, 25 MB of free hard drive space, 8 MB of Video RAM 800 x 600 minimum screen resolution XGA, 16 bit color. Unfortunately the planner tool does not yet run on MAC operating systems. We apologize for the inconvenience."*

What does the "yet" mean? Sounds to me like they are planning a Mac version. Could it be that my writing them (I wrote them too) had any effect? Every time I find some consumer site not supporting Mac, I write a note. They are making a mistake by equating our market share as THEIR customers to being equivilant to the Mac's market share of computer users.

*From:http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/complet...oad/index.html

[nixgeek]

Maybe they've been turned on by the switch to Intel...who knows?