Today Fubra became the third official mirror for php.net. A contact of mine works there so I quickly visited the site, only to see the site completely and utterly messed up in Safari – with minor bugs in Firefox and Opera. Naturally I point these out, since this is a company wanting to build ‘web 3.0′ and if they do they need to approach web 2.0 properly by meeting web standards first.

Here’s a view of what the site looks like in Safari at my normal browser size (which fits 1024×768 based sites with some extra padding either side):

So let’s get onto the vision:

Fubra is a ‘new media’ company. It’s our goal to create and publish great content and then to monetise that content through advertiser relationships.

We set ourselves apart from our competition by designing, building and managing our own infrastructure, which means the buck starts and stops here.

We are passionate about enabling relevant connections between our advertisers and the people who use our web sites every day.
- Brendan McLoughlin (Managing Director)

And my problem with the actions I just experienced with my contact/the guy sitting next to him who coded the site.

I mentioned the site bugs to which I received a ‘can we get a screenshot?’
‘sure, ‘.
A few seconds later.. ‘what version of Firefox is this in?’,
‘no that screenshot is in Safari’,
‘oh this is on a Mac then? Cause if it is, he doesn’t care’, (referring to the person next to him, who coded the site)
‘yeah it is, in Safari’,
‘Safari sucks ass’
… and they go on to say they won’t fix it.

The ‘contact’ of mine is now blocked from Instant Messaging as a stand off for web standards. And I’m disappointed to say that this continues through several of their websites.

For the companies without Mac’s, here’s how your company can allow itself to be cross-browser compatible

Tags: discussion, fubra, little things

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