Accessing websites on a Mac?
Okay I'm still in the market for a Mac and I really want to switch but one thing that's really put me off - I use my computer 95% for web-surfing so that's the really important thing for me.
In a UK-based Mac magazine I bought though, on the help page someone wrote in to say he's finding websites are becoming increasingly inaccessible from Macs, regardless of the browser, even if you use IE for a Mac.
This is a major issue for me - I can't buy a computer which won't let me access certain websites.
Please be honest, is this a major problem on a Mac?
In a UK-based Mac magazine I bought though, on the help page someone wrote in to say he's finding websites are becoming increasingly inaccessible from Macs, regardless of the browser, even if you use IE for a Mac.
This is a major issue for me - I can't buy a computer which won't let me access certain websites.
Please be honest, is this a major problem on a Mac?
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Flash animations are slower than Windows browsers but thats not a problem for me.
Sounds like some banks are better than others when it comes to their web support.
firefox is a great web standards compliant web browser
i understand your concern, but armed with the following web browsers, you can explore what works best for you, and very unlikely that you'll have one critical website that doesn't work with any of them....
safari for mac
firefox for mac
internet explorer for mac
enjoy,
-sunilraman
Most of the Mac users I know drag IE to the trash can!
Something that is still a big bad taboo on a P/C
The only problems I've heard with accessing certain web pages
in Safari or Firefox ended up being caused by user firewall settings rather than the browser.
This happened most recently with the use of PeerVanguard
and PeerGuardian where the updated block lists became a bit too restrictive.
Originally posted by FallenFromTheTree
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Most of the Mac users I know drag IE to the trash can!
Something that is still a big bad taboo on a P/C
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to tell everyone what you do, when you do it and where.
good riddens
I think the last one I went to was the Buy.com music download site, where they were intentionally turning mac users away (How's that going for them, anyway?).
The only other thing I can think of is some online java games don't seem to work on the mac.
Originally posted by RSteve
Okay I'm still in the market for a Mac and I really want to switch but one thing that's really put me off - I use my computer 95% for web-surfing so that's the really important thing for me.
In a UK-based Mac magazine I bought though, on the help page someone wrote in to say he's finding websites are becoming increasingly inaccessible from Macs, regardless of the browser, even if you use IE for a Mac.
This is a major issue for me - I can't buy a computer which won't let me access certain websites.
Please be honest, is this a major problem on a Mac?
As indicated above, the only problems you may come across are online banking (which is getting better all the time - even for the smaller services) and online shopping at supermarkets such as ASDA, who's website is not Mac friendly. Apart from these areas, I too have found very very little in the way of problems. Safari and Firefox may not be as "plug & play" as other browsers on a lot of sites but they still work perfecty well and are much less of a security risk.
What type of websites do you wish to surf? This may help us determine if you may have a problem.
Originally posted by telekon
As indicated above, the only problems you may come across are online banking (which is getting better all the time - even for the smaller services) and online shopping at supermarkets such as ASDA, who's website is not Mac friendly. Apart from these areas, I too have found very very little in the way of problems. Safari and Firefox may not be as "plug & play" as other browsers on a lot of sites but they still work perfecty well and are much less of a security risk.
What type of websites do you wish to surf? This may help us determine if you may have a problem.
yeah, besides p0rN
so yeah let us know here and we'd be happy to investigate it for you... i too am curious if there are still any bloody anti-Mac websites out there, this whole web standards move IS quite strong and should alleviate a lot of cross-browser issues by now...
security concerns and the like have also driven developers to embrace web standards instead of microsoft-biased web technology on the front end (eg vbscript, activex)
you are getting very sleepy... you want to switch.... you want a PowerBook 15" 1.67ghz with Superdrive 512mb RAM and 128 vram...
*did my jedi mind trick work??*
using a mac is safer when browsing more risque websites...
stay safe, people, have fun, but be safe. use a mac.
Originally posted by hardeeharhar
No. You have available for use Safari, Firefox etc etc. One issue I do note (which I have with both PCs and Macs) is that for some reason my bank's website doesn't play well with anything but IE. But we have that too, although it sucks.
There is an extention for Firefox that tricks servers into thinking it is IE - thus it lets certin services work, although I dont know off the top of my head what it is called.
Also, if your bank is IE only, call them, let them hear you, write to the president(s) and if it comes down to it, swithch banks...Bank One and most local banks around here play nice with FF/Mozilla
Originally posted by BeiMac
Maybe it's just me, but I can't empty my Hotmail junkmail folder with Safari.... Works in IE and Firefox though
Which begs the question, why do you use a hotmail box to recieve mail that is important enough to ever check, all hotmail is good for is a spam catcher for utter crap like NY Times registrarion, but for stuff like that, I use Bugmenot.com and their Firefox plugin, Really, you should get a gmail account, if you need an invite, I think I could spare one.
Yahoo! is also a great choice for free mail, but all of the good names there are long snatched up by now.
I think you don't need to worry. More and more people are abandoning IE for firefox, for both convenience and security, so web designers will soon have no choice but to bug check their code on non-IE browsers. It's not that hard, so hopefully more will keep doing it. Firefox keeps getting updated for OSX, just like the other ports, and I think it draws pages darn close to IE 99% of the time. The only error I can think of is the lack of emoticons in Yahoo mail.