Safari .. I like you
Yes I know, our catalogue doesn’t work with Safari. When I began developing the ‘box (6 years ago now .. yikes that’s hard to believe) Safari was just awful. Hard to debug, poor support for the latest in web tech. So I blocked it out, blocked my ears. Now of course, Safari rocks. Firefox rocks, Chrome rocks, and IE9 will finally .. hopefully make IE rock for the first time. So .. I’ve got my eye on it, and hope to get Safari and Chrome up and running in the not-too-distant future. In the meantime, with a developer trick, you can get us up and running with Safari now.
Go to your preferences area click ‘Show Develop in menu bar’ in the advanced tab to make the developer’s menu appear. Select Develop -> User Agent -> Firefox 3.6.3 (Mac or Windows) to spoof the User Agent and make APPLEBOX think it’s Firefox. Boom! Click browse DVDs and you’re away. There are a few minor layout issues I’ve got to deal with .. but if Safari is your thing, go for it.
Safari 5 is absolutely smokin’ but Firefox is still my favourite .. it might be lagging Safari a bit in raw performance at the moment .. but Firefox 4 is due at the end of the year and all is lookin’ good.
June 30th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
What about the Android browser?
I currently just get a message that linux users aren’t supported without firefox.
All those pixels the site uses for borders make it hard even on a netbook, so the site layout would clearly also need tweaking. An app, or an api to start an app from, would be more effective for the platform. No shortage of things to do
Nice to see signs of activity again..
July 1st, 2010 at 1:10 am
Chrome/Android - love it as well
BTW the same user agent trick works with Chrome .. if you install the UA switcher (here) and select Firefox 3.5, it should get going. I’ll be tackling Chrome and Safari at the same time. Next dev cycle I’ll be trying to create a lighter weight HTML5/CSS3 version that will target new browsers with older browsers redirected to the current version. Netpads/iPads .. should power on through!
(PS. use the direct URL: http://storefront.applebox.com.au/client/shell/ if you have any probs)