Dear Yahoo Mail

20 April 2006

I just wrote the following in a feedback form within Yahoo Mail.

Hello!

Firstly, I would like to point out that Yahoo Mail Beta has so far seemed to be a great improvement on your already fine web based email offering.

I am writing to ask that you would have confidence in your web designers, since in Yahoo mail Beta, the 'you are using an unsupported web browser' splash page is a bit overcooked in my humble opinion.

I am at this very moment using Epiphany, the default web browser for Gnome, a window manager used in many GNU/Linux/Unix operating systems.

Using Epiphany, my email account worked fine on Yahoo Mail beta, perhaps even a lot better than the old version due to all the new Ajax goodness.

You do not need to support browsers, you need to support standards, after that it is up to me, the consumer, to decide what browser I use.

If you write your website according to the standards, then your website is very likely to work in Epiphany. If your website works in Mozilla or Firefox, then it is 99.9999% likely to work in Epiphany - it is, after all, built upon the same rendering engine ('Gecko') as the Mozilla browsers.

So please, do not sell yourself and your design staff short, your website works, after that it is our fault if our browsers work or not.

Best Wishes,

1 Daniel says...

Amen to that! I hate those "browser is unsupported" messages that keep popping up on the net. Especially when 99% my browser can handle it. It gets really annoying when the site locks off functionality that I know (as someone with a little experience developing for the web) that "unsupported" browsers like Konqueror or Firefox ( I can't believe some people aren't planning for Firefox still) will work.

Posted at 11:51 p.m. on April 20, 2006


2 Phill says...

I agree, I think "Your browser is unsupported" messages should be a thing of the past. But all web developers will be stuck in the dark ages of the web until people wise up and realise that Internet Exploder sucks... it seems like most other browsers support a lot more than IE does!

Why people still use it is a mystery.

Posted at 8:14 a.m. on April 21, 2006


3 Proser says...

Agree. Besides that, it could make users who switched from IE to an non-IE browser, switch back. They will see all kind of "Not supported" warnings that probably weren't there in IE, while these warnings are mostly not necessary...

Posted at 1:17 p.m. on April 21, 2006


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