Safari Support
By: Bryan Byrne, Product Team Lead | February 9, 2006
We’ve had a number of our users ask why we are not currently supporting the Safari browser on OS X. Basically we are using some JavaScript features that Safari doesn’t currently support. As an Apple user I thought those of you using Safari would find this post informative.
Please try using our site with Firefox (it’s free and is a great browser) and hopefully we’ll have Safari support in the near future. Enjoy your time on Zillow.com and let us know if you encounter any problems.
Additional info for the tech heads among you:
Here’s a link to a useful FAQ posted by Apple, the key sentence to look for is “XSLT not available via JavaScript for application to arbitrary XML in an HTML page.”
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Aidas Gimbutas on February 9, 2006 4:58 pm
Wow, is this Beta site a mess.
Nothing worked at all and I read
that thousands of e-mails have
been received, they certainly
didn’t click on the feedback tab
because that goes nowhere.
Where this e-mail will go, who knows but I am sending the message
in the bottle anyway.
Not one home address worked.
It basically doesn’t do anything.
William Tygart on February 9, 2006 8:05 pm
I searched 5 addresses and one was way over valued but in a couple of rural areas I was suprised the home came up. Give these guys some time and I bet they make this huge.
Mark Malone on February 10, 2006 9:00 am
I’d love to make sure that Safari is supported by zillow. Specifically, what are the JS functions that are unsupported?
I can be reached at Apple via http://developer.apple.com/internet/safari/contact.html
Pleae contact me so we can make zillow rock in Safari!
Cheers,
-Mark
Anonymous on February 13, 2006 10:47 am
I mistakenly remembered your site as zwillow.check it out and see all the imposters!you should post there advising newbies not to be tricked into giving all thr info requested by these imposters.
Whit Loy on February 17, 2006 7:56 am
If you are using a Mac and want to view zillow, Camino just released version 1.0 the other day it is much better than firefox on OSX. This is my advise, it works great, until zillow.com will work on Safari.
Michael McClure on February 18, 2006 1:05 pm
I own a real estate company (you can see it at ProfessionalOne.com). I have been selling real estate for 15 years. I am also a CPA, so numbers “are my thing.” I am HORRIFIED at how inaccurate your information is. My home, for instance, is worth approximately $450,000 to $500,000. Your site shows it as being worth $157,000! I put an addition on my home several years ago that cost more than your estimate of the entire value of the home! If this doesn’t get your attention, then you are flat out negligent. Most of my agents have checked out the values of their homes on your site, and 100% of them have indicated that your estimates are not ever close! This spans seven different communities located in three different counties. One has a home worth approximately $270,000 - your site estimates the value at $117,000! This error percentage is OUTRAGEOUS!!! I’ve also had several unpleasant encounters with clients of mine that are ASSUMING your site is accurate. I would suggest you do some MAJOR site enhacements ASAP, because the uproar that is building within my industry is like nothing I’ve ever seen or felt before.
Todd Carpenter on March 2, 2006 8:30 am
I run a MAC and made the switch to Firefox a long time ago. It’s just better at everything IMO.
Vernon Pinkerton on March 4, 2006 10:39 am
THIS INFORMATION ON THE PROPERTY THAT YOU VALUED FOR ME WAS COMPLETELY WRONG. ALL THE INFORMATION THAT YOU HAVE NEEDS TO BE UPDATED FROM YEARS AGO.THE VALUE AFTER PUTTING IN THE CORRECT INFORMATION IS EXACTLY WHAT I HAVE VALUED MY HOME.($279,850) AND NOT WHAT YOU SHOW AS $180,000, YOU ARE OFF BY $100,000
Vinod Doshi on April 7, 2006 2:10 pm
I have browsed a lot of links and used features of the site using firefox. And everything seems to be working great. I found nothing wrong (broken links, rendering and alll the oter stuff etc..) when browsing zillow using firefox.
Dale Sherbourne on June 26, 2006 3:57 pm
Please support safari
tx
dale
Dale Sherbourne on July 10, 2006 12:34 pm
hurry up with the mac support already