Ripit.co.nz launches for IE users

2 December, 2006

Ripit.co.nz has launched, just as rumors of a Kiwi iTunes store launch is mentioned in the Herald.

However when I go to ripit.co.nz I am greeted with an absolute joke of a browser not supported page

If they don’t want to support firefox that’s their choice, but they have really twisted the meaning of firefox compatibility…

They say;

We are pleased to inform you that the Ripit Music Store is compatible with Firefox. If you are using Mozilla Firefox, please click here to view the step by step guide on how to enable Firefox to use the Ripit Music Store

The guide on how to get firefox to work with ripit is instructions on how to install the IE tab extension for Firefox.

What this means is you can view a page using Internet Explorer within firefox, but it is not firefox that renders the page, and you get all the security issues this implies. Also, there is no way to view the site without internet explorer, so no linux or mac users need apply. There really is no point to this, I don’t know why they just admit the site is IE only and get on with it!

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