October 31, 2000

6:23 AM

The redesign blitzkrieg continues: Webvan is getting a new look, complete with light influences from Aqua and - yes - amazonesque tabs. As an added bonus, it won't work with Macs. I'm interested to see how this plays out.
posted by hijinx (8 comments total)

Mea culpa - the link straight to the tabs.
posted by hijinx at 6:24 AM on October 31, 2000

Won't work with Macs? They just lost my business.

And I'm not returning the green and yellow bins either. So there.
posted by likorish at 8:14 AM on October 31, 2000

Mac users should be used to getting these things a little later. It's just like software. I guess thats the price you pay to have that orange computer.
posted by brian at 10:37 AM on October 31, 2000

Oh gimme a break. If you write clean code and make smart development decisions, you don't have to do anything special for the macintosh, aside from a conditional stylesheet or two. This is just sloppy development.
posted by fraying at 11:49 AM on October 31, 2000

Oh, please don't stop using WebVan. Their stock price is low enough as it is. I'm sure they're getting hate mail from the Mac community and are working on Mac-friendly code as we speak. [Disclaimer: While I'm speaking as a Mac user, I'm also a stockholder and live in a market not important enough to warrant WebVan service.]
posted by dandot at 3:17 PM on October 31, 2000

Why I hate Webvan: they will be phasing out Homegrocer's peach logo. Boo, I say (and not in the Halloween sense).
posted by gluechunk at 3:54 PM on October 31, 2000

It's a far cry easier to write web pages that work on Macs (at least IE 5 for Mac) than it is to write web pages that work and look properly with Netscape 4.x, even without stylesheet tweaks. I really can't see any reason not to invest the few extra hours out of weeks of development time it takes.
posted by cCranium at 4:39 PM on October 31, 2000

Amen to that, cC. Netscape 4.x is Really Quite Bad and Annoying.
posted by hijinx at 9:11 AM on November 1, 2000