From time to time I come across website that simply do not work properly in Firefox. In most cases this can cause some degree of irritation, but other times it is extremely frustrating.
At present I am researching cars, so I’ve been working my way through as many of the Irish car sites as possible in order to gauge pricing etc.,
Unfortunately at least one of the sites that ranks high on Google plus runs adwords does not work properly in Firefox. It’s not merely an aesthetic display issue – its core functionality simply breaks when you attempt to use it. What really amazed me, however, was that the web development company that are responsible for this atrocity have such a nice client list.
Does this mean that the large corporates don’t apply any standards to their web developers?
The Broken Web
Based on my experiences of working for an e-commerce site driven by custom software written in PHP plus JavaScript, the CEO was more concerned about having the site look right in Internet Explorer and having everything done rather than having the site standards compliant so it could work in any browser.
He soon changed his tune when he realised most of his clients/customers use Safari.
Moral of the story? They are more interested in numbers than standards-compliance, unless of course standards-compliance is used as the ‘carrot’ (think carrot & stick) of exposing the website to more potential customers.
[Give http://www.enterprise-ireland.com/ a look over in Firefox too – at the moment it’s not rendering particularly well at the moment.]
Ken
Rendering is one thing, but the site I was trying to use last night did not function.
Comes back to the same issue I have with online banking… sure, the sites render well and look fine, but do you think you can do your banking in Firefox?
Nein.
Ken,
AIB Banking OnLine works fine in Firefox – with whom are you experiencing problems?
michele,
yes this can be due to DOM (Document Object Model) differences. And there are many.
k.
The personal banking is fine…. its the business banking with BOI that annoys the heart and soul out of me. It hangs when you open Firefox or any other browser apart from IE – they know all about it yet wouldn’t look into solving the issue…
AIB business banking will not work with Firefox period and requires the MS JVM to function. They will probably fix it at some stage, but I have no idea when……….
Yep!
Also, the Enterprise Ireland website would appear to have exploded.
I hope everyone is clicking Help > Report Broken Web Site…?
Adam – thanks for reminding me about that feature!