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Safari need not apply to Yahoo's preview

Downloadsquad reports that Yahoo! is previewing their new look. Click here to check it out, as long as you are using Firefox 1.5. At the moment Yahoo! isn't supporting any browsers other than IE 6 and Firefox 1.5 (not even Camino, which is just a Macish Firefox).
I know it is just a preview, but it still irks me. Feel free to mock me in the comments.

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dan said 7:08PM on 5-16-2006
You aren't missing much - the overcluttered layout is a headache.
Stay happy in nice pure understated Google-land....
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bobthebuilder said 7:09PM on 5-16-2006
If you have ever done any extensive www development (JS,XML, etc) you'd know that Safari decides to do it's own thing too damn often. We (the startup I work for) try like hell to support it, (we support version 1.3 and above only)... but many hours are lost doing so because Apple had to do their own thing.
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andy said 7:11PM on 5-16-2006
i agree, its just sloppy web-design. you wouldnt catch a mac based web-designer hat doesnt check their site on virtually every browser going!
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David B. said 7:20PM on 5-16-2006
If you use Safari's debug menu and change it to report that it is IE 6 on Windows, the page displays and interacts just fine. Not only are they discriminating (for want of a better word) against Safari, they are doing so for absolutely no reason.
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earl smith said 7:34PM on 5-16-2006
Yahoo smashoo Yahoo has got nothing worth having except your money.
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Dom said 7:38PM on 5-16-2006
Oddly, the UK preview works just fine in Safari:
http://uk.yahoo.com/preview
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Matt Moriarity said 7:54PM on 5-16-2006
Not that exciting, anyway.
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John Muir said 7:57PM on 5-16-2006
Camino works fine too when faking it's user agent as Firefox 1.5
More proof that Yahoo are jerks ... Google kicking their ass and what do they do? Block browsers for no reason! I wonder why they don't just make this an IE exclusive? :P
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Steph said 7:59PM on 5-16-2006
anyone else notice it looks a lot like msn's old layout? (of course no one noticed, who uses msn?)
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wastern said 8:01PM on 5-16-2006
I made this earlier today to post around.......no one seems to be going along with it though
i think you need to change out the image on the post. haha
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wastern/147519266/
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Adam said 8:08PM on 5-16-2006
Works fine if you change the User Agent of Safari to MSIE 6.0.
It seems odd that they would restrict it to IE and FF, when it appears to work OK in Safari. Hell, it's a preview, it's not supposed to work perfectly.
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Erik said 8:25PM on 5-16-2006
It didn't even support Firefox until a few days ago.
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Michael Langfur said 8:47PM on 5-16-2006
I like my Yahoo just the way it is.
Kinda Coke Classic? Don't you think?
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faciom said 9:13PM on 5-16-2006
You can use safari: just go to http://www.yahoo.com/beta
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Sir Not Appearing in this Blog said 9:44PM on 5-16-2006
Geez, calm down! It's only a preview, fer cryin' out loud! They got it working for the two most popular browsers out there, and they'll get the compatibility issues worked out for Safari. Or would you rather they just let Safari users in there with gross incompatibilities? Imagine what you'd be saying then! You'd be grousing that they should have taken their time to get it right.
Honestly though, it's nothing special. It's cluttered and looks like it was designed by someone who thinks good design means No White Space Left Behind.
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BJ Gilbert said 9:45PM on 5-16-2006
How do you fake your user agent?
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wastern said 9:55PM on 5-16-2006
you need to add the debug menu to Safari
open the Terminal and type this
defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1
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Tan The Man said 10:53PM on 5-16-2006
Darn.
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Gene said 12:15AM on 5-17-2006
hmm...
"If you have ever done any extensive www development (JS,XML, etc) you'd know that Safari decides to do it's own thing too damn often. We (the startup I work for) try like hell to support it, (we support version 1.3 and above only)... but many hours are lost doing so because Apple had to do their own thing."
... I thought you were writing about IE. When I write standards-based websites, Safari works perfectly. It's Microsoft that has to "do their own thing." Of course, since Microsoft has such a huge market share in installed browsers, people must think that IE is the standard instead of the abberation.
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Silver said 12:27AM on 5-17-2006
Oh, haven't you heard? The Internet was designed around Internet Explorer. :|
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