| Tuesday, October 12, 2004 |
15:52 - Safari-Happy Website Hall of Fame
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There are certain sites out there whose authors have just become so enamored of Safari and its CSS support—including such things as alpha-blending in layers—that they've broken out from the consensus of web design compatibility and begun catering wholly to their Mac-using audience. It's not anything that's particularly proprietary that they're doing, either; it's just the compositing features that are part of open web standards, but that IE just doesn't support. Now that browsers like Firefox and Opera are beginning to crack open IE's seemingly impermeable lock on the market, people don't see it as the implacable arbiter of all things Web that it once was.
Three sites for incurable Mac-heads, that one just shouldn't bother looking at with IE, unless one wants a freak show:
Concept House. Check out the curved layers with their drop-shadows. The sub-page for the "Fluid" screen saver has a severely awesome color scheme and text profile.
Panic. Cabel Sasser is the archetypical Mac nerd; just look at his sense of humor wrought throughout the product info pages on the site. And don't forget to use the drag-and-drop feature to download the apps on the main page. It even works in IE on Windows, but it's ugly without proper alpha blending.
Delicious Monster. These guys are still preparing their blockbuster Delicious Library, and in the meantime they've put together a beast of a site. So much so that if you even try looking at it under Win/IE, it blocks you out. They support all kinds of browsers—just not IE.
Word is that the IE team has reconvened in recent months, after being dissolved ever since the release of IE6, in order to put together a new release (presumably to roll up the myriad security fixes and, hopefully, to try to implement some more CSS stuff). There's been very little noise about this, though, and it's unclear whether sites like these are likelier to become pariahs in their stubborn incompatibility, or the vanguard of a new breakaway school of web design.
Any other sites to rank with those? I'm sure there must be lots.
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Brian Tiemann
