Zillow runs on Safari.

By: David Golightly, User Experience Developer | July 20, 2007

We’ve been working long and hard to get our web application compatible with the Safari browser, so we’re pleased to announce that safari users can finally use Zillow by downloading the beta of Safari 3.0. Sorry for the delay!

A lot of users have asked us why it’s taken us so long. That’s a good question, and I can assure you that it’s not without good reason. Zillow is interested in developing innovative techniques for organizing and presenting a huge volume of information, and in doing, so we’re pushing browsers to their limits. When Zillow was originally launched, back in February 2006, we were using technologies offered by Internet Explorer and Firefox, but Safari had not yet developed those capabilities (specifically, XSLT support in Javascript).

To get Zillow running on Safari on your Mac (and now Windows!) users can upgrade their Safari browser to version 3 (beta), which supports the Zillow site. The official launch of Safari 3.0 should roll out by October, for those of you who are willing to wait.

Thanks for your patience!

Stumble it!
Categories: FAQ, Zillow

Comments

5 Comments so far

Paul Adams on July 20, 2007 11:56 am

About time. I’m a software developer. It shouldn’t have taken this long to find a workaround.

Paul
David Gibbons on July 20, 2007 1:13 pm

Paul -

Hopefully you’re looking for work … please check out our job openings.

http://zillow.hrmdirect.com/employment/openings.php?sort=td
bob on July 20, 2007 7:03 pm

THANK-YOU for supporting Opera a very long time ago. The BEST browser on the planet!
Bryan Byrne on July 20, 2007 9:23 pm

Great news David. Now we just need GPS on the iphone and we can start building some mashups for the greatest phone ever
P. from Weston MA on July 23, 2007 8:41 am

Now can we get it running in ASCII-based browsers?