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Any Mac web broswer that actually works well with eBay?
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<blockquote data-quote="cazabam" data-source="post: 256497" data-attributes="member: 17895"><p>The short answer is no. It is a big deal, because it is NOT a "small adjustment", and there are already web standards that allow for what that toolbar does, but Microsoft chose to ignore them. Whoever wrote the software that ebay uses to display that toolbar chose the non-standard microsoft route. To add that functionality to other browsers, one of two things must happen:</p><p></p><p>1) The standards must alter to suit Microsoft's whims, thus requiring development work to EVERY browser product that is not IE.</p><p>2) Ebay must change the software the produces the toolbar</p><p></p><p>Out of the two of them, only number 2 has a) a chance of actually happening, and b) a simple, cost effective, single solution.</p><p></p><p>Let me put it another way. Say you're watching TV and one channel starts to broadcast a picture that's too big for a standard TV screen. Which would be easier, to change every TV in the country, or to get that one channel to stop broadcasting a non-standard signal? The same applies here.</p><p></p><p>It is very irritating when companies do this, and when they are blind to the fact that an increasing number are losing functionality through their bad choices.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cazabam, post: 256497, member: 17895"] The short answer is no. It is a big deal, because it is NOT a "small adjustment", and there are already web standards that allow for what that toolbar does, but Microsoft chose to ignore them. Whoever wrote the software that ebay uses to display that toolbar chose the non-standard microsoft route. To add that functionality to other browsers, one of two things must happen: 1) The standards must alter to suit Microsoft's whims, thus requiring development work to EVERY browser product that is not IE. 2) Ebay must change the software the produces the toolbar Out of the two of them, only number 2 has a) a chance of actually happening, and b) a simple, cost effective, single solution. Let me put it another way. Say you're watching TV and one channel starts to broadcast a picture that's too big for a standard TV screen. Which would be easier, to change every TV in the country, or to get that one channel to stop broadcasting a non-standard signal? The same applies here. It is very irritating when companies do this, and when they are blind to the fact that an increasing number are losing functionality through their bad choices. [/QUOTE]
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