New Blog Roll Members
For those of you looking for interesting Internet surf destinations to add to your list (since I’m humble enough to realize I can’t satisfy all your needs), I’ve added 2 sites to my Blog Roll (in the right-hand column), have a look.
Microsoft-only websites are unacceptable
This morning at breakfast Tim and I tried to watch the latest Dutch news broadcast online. Pretty much all of the stations in Holland put their news broadcasts online after-the-fact and you can just stream the video, it’s great .. in theory.
Both the sites we tried this morning (RTL and NOS) failed to actually play any video when browsed from my Mac, not in Firefox and also not in Safari. *Learn to do your job* I felt like screaming at the people responsible for putting these sites together - not everyone is using Microsoft Internet Explorer on Windows XP! In fact, about 35% of people are using something else nowadays. It’s not that hard to make a site that at least works in Firefox for the Mac. I even have a special program on my Mac that lets me view Windows Media Player videos and these 2 news sites still don’t work!
Some sites are going to learn the hard way that if they can’t cater to the browsers used by the web browsing population out there, their Windows-centric websites are going to be left in the dust. Have you got a website to add to my list? Post a comment.