Comments on: Fubra, an example of a company that doesn’t care about Mac’s

By: desbest tynamite

desbest tynamite — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:12:25 +0000

i prefer to use http://www.browsrcamp.com
its much more quicker to get a result

By: Jamie Huskisson

Jamie Huskisson — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:49:12 +0000

Noticed it Ben don’t worry. Deleted it because I’m getting ready to release a new version of the site today/tomorrow – which is totally valid.

So didn’t see the point in approving a comment that would only be valid for a day or so. I have however approved your second comment so I can explain why I didn’t approve your first.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:43:53 +0000

I notice you deleted my comment on your site not actually validating as xhtml compliant, and it still doesnt.

By: Jamie Huskisson

Jamie Huskisson — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:18:05 +0000

Brendon – this post wasn’t about an in depth analysis of your company (and that’s pretty clear by how short it is), so whether you use a MacBook or not is completely irrevelevant.

This post was about the 2-3 employees of Fubra that I experienced basically telling me to f-off because I was reporting Safari based errors accross your network of sites.

The argument of ‘our audience doesn’t use that browser’ is mostly void to the fact that they can’t use the websites in the browser in the first place, so they’d probably be leaving the sites rather than trying to work around it themselves. I’d also like to point out here I mentioned Opera and FireFox bugs too which where also pretty bad – so this isn’t solely about Safari.

I’d also like to note that FireFox on the Mac is not considered that great an option by most.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:14:31 +0000

Hi Jamie,

Our company does care about macs. Just because a site partially doesn’t render in Safari on a mac it doesn’t suggest that we are a mac unfriendly company or that we don’t care about them. I really like my MacBook and I run the company so your post is pretty badly researched to say the least.

A more accurate statement would be Jamie Huskission hasn’t heard about the tort of injurious falsehood.

Nevertheless you make a good point and I am disappointed that you got the response you did having made a suggestion to us that we should try and be compatible with as many browsers as possible. I can say our focus internally is on Firefox and then IE and then if we get any spare time or complaints like this then we have a look at other browsers like Safari.

You might know, if you know someone who works for our company, that we run quite a few web sites 57 in total so making sure they are all working in every permutation of browser and OS is quite a large task and one that is secondary to the development and implementation of new features especially if the browser concerned represents a low percentage of the market and our visitors and when there is another option (firefox on the mac) that works perfectly well.

Brendan

By: Darius

Darius — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:14:33 +0000

true not many people use mac’s but you should always make your site so it works to the most obscure users as well as the common ones.

Darius

By: Antonio

Antonio — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:02:38 +0000

Not very many people know what Web 2.0 means anymore!
Web 2.0 is a website that is user-driven, meaning it’s up to the users to make the site last.

Shame about that site, but not very many people use Mac’s :)