Comments on: Regarding Me.com

By: David Storey

David Storey — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:38:51 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. More over they also block Opera (my companies browser). This is something we’ve been fighting against, and something that big companies like Apple have no excuse to do, especially when they have a standards compliant browser of their own that suffers from the same problems (Google I’m looking at you). It’s not just me.com that Apple plays these tricks too. iWeb did the same thing as one example (not to mention the atrocious mark up that that application spit out ).

Seems like Apple has thrown a brick into its own glass house.

By: Steve Webster

Steve Webster — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:17:14 +0000

This is indeed a sad state of affairs. I’ve finally finished my critiqué on SproutCore, the underlying framework behind Me.com.

By: David House

David House — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:15:43 +0000

You know what’s worse? I’m running Firefox 3 on Linux, on a PC, and it tells me to install Firefox 2 or newer on a PC. Right.

By: Isofarro

Isofarro — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:46:01 +0000

me.com does the permanent redirect thingy on Firefox 3 in Ubuntu, recommending I upgrade to Firefox 2 on a Mac or PC, or Safari on a Mac or PC. So clearly this has nothing to do with web standards.

And Mark Pilgrim is still right , even over two years later: Apple is no adherent of open standards, it’s not in the interests of their business.