Screw the Consumer

Stumbled unintentionally on this site today: http://www.yesnomayb.co.za (it was actually an ad on a site I was on, and since I’m all about Google Adsense clicking these days, thought I’d click to ‘donate’).

By chance, and despite using Win32 platforms most of the day, at night I use my Mac Mini. And Safari.
Now I know that Safari 3 beta is out and it’s had its fair share of problems. Especially now that it has migrated to Win32. However, it’s not the version I am using. I am still on Safari 2 that has been in production and live since I started building the house I’ve been in for nearly a year already.

And I see this…

So I send them this little note through their Contact Us page:

While every Internet browser has bugs, some more than others, it’s a fair statement that Safari and it’s *nix base is dramatically better than IE. Firefox is good too.
I can only suppose that you’re getting the Google referal click on Firefox; hence the bashing of Safari.
Safari and Firefox are equally W3C compliant. If your lazy ass is too opinionated to take into account a new riser (not even Mac-only these days) browser…
Take some client and software friendly tips from agilemanifesto.org:
- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
- Working software over comprehensive documentation
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Responding to change over following a plan
And one from the world of sales: the customer is always right. Don’t tell them they are wrong.
Success is a long damn reach for you guys… you simply don’t get software or Internet based commerce.
Bugs in Safari, however few or relevant, is no excuse for poor programmers or programming.

I blame the bosses. They don’t let their programmers see the light of day or the color of the customer’s eyes.
Screw this crowd for so badly misleading the eyeballs that hit their site.