Wal-Mart Says No To Firefox and Safari

Last week, Walmart launched their online video download service. Immediately there were posts that the service did not work with the Firefox or Safari browsers. There was a collective, “WTF” when this happened as this is 2007, not 1997. Back then it was “accepted” for applications to work with only a specific browser or platform. Now it appears that reports are out that Walmart has turned off the ability to get into the application at all by Firefox, Safari or any other browser it does not like.

This is great news as I am always looking for new reasons to dislike Wal-Mart. If you are using some obscure browser that only a roomful of people use, you expect something like this. But for popular browsers like Firefox and Safari? There’s no excuse for one of the richest companies in the world. Maybe their webdev guys are getting tired of making minimum wage. Of course, a tight blue smock doesn’t really help anyone get the job done faster, either.

Source: Center Networks