Sites that Still Unusable with Safari
Name the sites that Safari still can't load properly or take forever trying. I have two sites I love to visit but can't use Safari (have to use Netscape, IE, or OmniWeb):
http://www.ign.com
http://www.supershadow.com
What are yours?
http://www.ign.com
http://www.supershadow.com
What are yours?
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www.futureshop.ca
you can get around it by dragging the links into the address bar though... still bloody annoying.
Originally posted by Dave K.
Name the sites that Safari still can't load properly or take forever trying. I have two sites I love to visit but can't use Safari (have to use Netscape, IE, or OmniWeb):
http://www.ign.com
http://www.supershadow.com
What are yours?
Never try posting anything on EBay using Safari -- it will choke every time.
Yes, IGN is horrible. Esp. since it loads instantly on a PC.
I see little things that don't work right all the time -- it's getting better though.
Originally posted by Dave K.
Name the sites that Safari still can't load properly or take forever trying. I have two sites I love to visit but can't use Safari (have to use Netscape, IE, or OmniWeb):
http://www.ign.com
http://www.supershadow.com
What are yours?
IGN.com loads ok on my end, although the amount of ads it spews forth for their video game sections is going out of control.
Supershadow.com uses very questionable styles. Safari doesn't like the Left side of the page, but neither does Mozilla. Mixing absolute and relative units (as crazylicious.com does) is going to give various browsers and platforms problems. If you are an author and Mozilla shows odd renders, you are most likely doing something wrong.
For the most part I'm happy with the way Safari renders. And, as its been stated, is getting better all the time.
BTW, what exactly is the problem with http://www.ign.com. Loads quickly for me.
Originally posted by jimdad
Problem with Javascript in our pull down menus apparently but no problem on our PCs.
That is generally a nicely put together site but those menus add new dimensions to the word gratuitous.
I wonder how well they work for users with disabilities.
Have to say I love what Safari does to this site.
Originally posted by jimdad
BTW, what exactly is the problem with http://www.ign.com. Loads quickly for me.
While it loads fine for me as well, it does take considerable amount of time for each item you click on. Every single time I go to ign.com with Safari, the pizza wheel of death spins at least 30 seconds on every page it loads.
I can surf ign.com faster in Windows 98 using VPC, than I can by using Safari. Go figure.
Originally posted by Telomar
Formula1.com
Have to say I love what Safari does to this site.
Unbelievable.
Originally posted by Dave K.
While it loads fine for me as well, it does take considerable amount of time for each item you click on. Every single time I go to ign.com with Safari, the pizza wheel of death spins at least 30 seconds on every page it loads.
I can surf ign.com faster in Windows 98 using VPC, than I can by using Safari. Go figure.
Yeah, IGN loads. It's just super slow. All the time. It's also slow on IE for Mac, but not as bad. It's superfast on IE for XP.
Originally posted by stupider...likeafox
That is generally a nicely put together site but those menus add new dimensions to the word gratuitous.
I wonder how well they work for users with disabilities.
Yeah, I'm not overly impressed with them but what do you mean about disabled access ? Do you mean that it is hard to be accurate which menu you are pulling down ? if so, any hints would be gratefully accepted.
also, the site loads fine in Camino so there is no reason why it can't do the same in Safari.
Originally posted by jimdad
Yeah, I'm not overly impressed with them but what do you mean about disabled access ? Do you mean that it is hard to be accurate which menu you are pulling down ?
They mean users who may not be able to see, hear, or understand the content do to a disability. The menus do work if clicked which is the key. Using Lynx I was able to navigate the site rather well.
Drop-down menus vary wildly in technique, and many are coded to target specific browsers (IE Windows) and blow up elsewhere. I've used http://brainjar.com/ code for a recent project I've began. Mr. Hall uses code that is standardised and thus works on many browsers.
IGN.com still works great for me. Pages take about 2-5 seconds to load, like many other pages on the net. 30-second delays sound odd. Currently running 10.2.6 with Safari 1.0 on a dual 533MHz DA Power Mac.
Formula1.com ouch.
Anyway, it brings up the inbox window without any problem but when you go to open an email it completely mucks up the text overlaying the content of the message over the information of who sent or received the message and title.
I must say I'm pretty surprised by this as displaying an email ought to be fairly simple (although with microsoft's formatting who knows!) and there are probably a lot of people who have to access their work email this way.
Happens on Camino also.
Originally posted by MacAficionado
I was triyng to get into the Pep Boys website and Safari just starts spinning the ball longer than my patience allow me to wait, having to force quit.
Happens on Camino also.
"Don't touch that pot; you'll burn yourself."
Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. D'oh.
Now, as I recover from force quit, another problem site is Gamespot.com, which wouldn't allow me to access certain content until I fooled it by changing User Agent to IE6 with the Debug menu. (Can be enabled using Terminal, Safari Enhancer, and probably a dozen other utilities listed on VersionTracker.)
Originally posted by neurokid
Never try posting anything on EBay using Safari -- it will choke every time.
You can post stuff on eBay just fine with Safari, done it a couple of times. You just can't upload images to it. If you have the images stored on a server elsewhere already there are no problems.
Wesley
page loads and looks fine, but if you try to click on the links to any of the stories (on the right, after the splash) you can't get anywhere. Then again, this isn't any sort of professional/corporate site so i give them a break.
~felipe