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Dec 19, 07 - 02:48 pm Comment from: critic

ZDNet is pretty dumb to begin with.

I would never recommend anyone specially Mac users to visit ZDNET and CNET. More like ZDNUTS and CNUTS. That place is FUD central.

ZDNet still lives in the 90s

Dec 19, 07 - 03:02 pm Comment from: Triumph the Insult Comic Dog

Careful with those acronyms there, Jubei. After all, this is a family-friendly blog. So, in that spirit . . .

. . . I POOP ON ZDNet!

Amazon and Google give you the option too. I hate being redirected!

@MDN

In the same light as calling the folks at ZDNet dumb and "stuck in the 90's" perhaps this website could use a bit of it's own medicine.

Al the pop-ups and scripts on this site are definitely dumb, 100% bad taste, and totally "stuck in the 90's."

A classic example is how every link on this site, even the ones to their own sources and stories, will open a separate new browser window. Hello? Tabbed browsers have been around for ages, specifically on a Mac.

Hardly anyone younger than 50 or so uses a new window to open up a different web page, and since I have my Safari specifically set to open up new links in a "new tab" it is intensely rude of MDN to force the link to open up in a "new window."

That's almost worse than redirection.

Signed:

"Sick and tired of right-clicking every stinking link on this site to force it to open up in a new tab."

Dec 19, 07 - 03:09 pm Comment from: Follower

Like ZDNet, Bank of America's online banking does not give you the option of going off their mobile site -- I wish they would.

Dec 19, 07 - 03:20 pm Comment from: Ferf Muckmeyer

ZDNet = Microsoft-subsidized, biased, opinionated, home of some of the worst tech zealots on the face of the earth (Dvorak!), etc.

Would you expect anything less?

So I might ask, why should we bother with their site?

fm

Dec 19, 07 - 03:27 pm Comment from: qjk;

"MacDailyNews readers are complaining..."

Surprise of the century.

Airtran Airways does the exact same thing.... So I had no choice but to make my reservations with another airline!

I like to check in several time a day to MDN, but I don't do so from my iPhone. Can anyone guess why? Because MDN is the slowest loading site I have experienced. All the crap that loads before the content makes it painful to use on Edge, so I don't do it. I am finding other sites to fill the void.

(And yes, I fully expect to get called juvenile names for daring to criticize.)

Dec 19, 07 - 03:30 pm Comment from: BuriedCaesar

Indeed - why would anyone want to visit ZDNet from an iPhone, or any browser, for that matter?

Dec 19, 07 - 03:32 pm Comment from: Tommy Boy

Follow the example of baseball? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

It's ZDNET; who cares.

Dec 19, 07 - 03:44 pm Comment from: lurker

It's ZDNET; how can you tell?

Who reads Zdnet anymore? Jebus!

Yuck

iPhone users need to get a life blah blah.

Steve has you all duped blah blah blah

Beat you to it 'Realist'

zdeeznuts!

DanieIN:
I agree completely. MacDailyNews is the slowest loading site I visit - and I visit many! I gave up a long time ago trying to load this site on my iPhone.

Anyone know how ZDnet and others are redirecting these users? Is it based on browser version, or is there some other way that they can tell that a request is coming from a mobile device?

If it's by browser version, can folks alter the browser version that Safari on their iPhones is reporting itself as, like you can do with the "normal" Safari?

Dec 19, 07 - 04:31 pm Comment from: Hm...

“ZDNet - the «Zune» of technology websites”

The iPhone browser needs a developers option so we can claim our browser is something other than an iPhone and let us spoof these idiotic sites.

Dec 19, 07 - 04:32 pm Comment from: coolfactor

@Jeremy,

You're confused. The "open in new tab" feature of Safari is only for external links (from emails and other programs). Safari doesn't provide the ability to force "new windows" to open in "new tabs" like other browsers have. That is not something that MDN can fix, as it's a browser behavior.

Dec 19, 07 - 04:34 pm Comment from: coolfactor

@Jeremy (again),

Forgot to mention, if you look at the Safari preferences, you'll see specifically that you need hold down the Command key to open a link in a new tab. Just gonna have to get into the habit of that, eh?

Imagine that, apple users COMPLAINING when they get a dumbed down feature limited product. Normal practice is to try to convince the world how much better the dumbed down product is.

Dec 19, 07 - 05:11 pm Comment from: Darkness

Forget ZDNET. Someone needs to hit Yahoo with a clue bat. They do the same thing.

Can you spell conspiracy?

I have a feeling CNET is trying to downgrade the experience for iPhone users with all other M$ mobile users.

They are not tech illiterate, and they are reaally pro M$.

Think of it this way, they will say: see the iPhone has the same experience as all other mobile phones, the iPhone is not anything special.

Dec 19, 07 - 06:07 pm Comment from: ron

Dan just replied to me.
Today, we have modified our redirects on all blogs pages, so if you're coming in via an iPhone or an iPod Touch, you'll see our standard Web page, in all its glory.

In early January, we'll be doing the same thing for our front door at ZDNet as well, though I should point out that our current mobile version is a full feed of our blogs and news. The only thing missing is Flash, and as you know, you can't currently view Flash on an iPhone in the first place.
DF

Here is what I wrote to Dan at ZDNet:

I feel that it would be in your company's best interest to allow
iPhone users to decide their own web experiance. I understand that you
want to streamline a process. In this case though it may not be the
process to streamline. Thank you in advance for your time.

and his reply:

Today, we have modified our redirects on all blogs pages, so if you're
coming in via an iPhone or an iPod Touch, you'll see our standard Web
page, in all its glory.

In early January, we'll be doing the same thing for our front door at
ZDNet as well, though I should point out that our current mobile version
is a full feed of our blogs and news. The only thing missing is Flash,
and as you know, you can't currently view Flash on an iPhone in the
first place.
DF

darn u Ron, you beat me.

Dan at ZD Net wrote: "...The only thing missing is Flash, and as you know, you can't currently view Flash on an iPhone in the first place." And that's a bad thing - because - ?

Dec 19, 07 - 07:34 pm Comment from: silverhawk

@Maryland Balloon Guy
No flash: I don't think that's a bad thing!

NFL.com also has the same problem!!! I want them to change this immediately!

Gee, that would be annoying if I had any reason to look at ZDnet.

-jcr

Dec 19, 07 - 09:21 pm Comment from: BiZarRo BaLlmEr

why waste bandwidth going to zdnet?

Dec 20, 07 - 12:21 am Comment from: Swordmaker

Never underestimate the power of MDN... write an email and get results the next night.

Thanks...

Swordmaker