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This is how it really looks?
Wow, just wow, I'm speechless.
I can do better with Front Page, and I suck at web design...
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This is how it really looks?
Wow, just wow, I'm speechless.
I can do better with Front Page, and I suck at web design...
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Are you sure this not because of *caugh*crappy*caugh* Safari?
@NilzXX: Are you seriously trying to blame Webkit, which is a superior layout engine to Gecko (faster, lighter, more portable, and more compliant -if you count future standards to-). The reason most people prefer Firefox is because it is also standards compliant and people like the wide selection of community addons, plus it has major vocal support and is cross platform, but Gecko isn't as portable and Firefox is quite resource intensive. The default web browser for OS X (Safari) and the Gnome (Epiphany) and KDE (Konqueror) desktop environments for *nix use Webkit, the only major modern OS that doesn't use Webkit for rendering web documents is Windows because Microsoft insists on using their own shitty proprietary layout engine named Trident; but Webkit's wide adaptation (which expands to mobile platforms as well) should be a convincing argument for why it is not \"crappy\" at all (even Google choose to use Webkit for Chrome).
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@NilzXX: Yay browser wars!
Safari > Firefox > IE
Although if you're the type of person that likes addons and extendability, Firefox is the way to go. I haven't heard many defend the piece of crap that is IE. It's not standards-compliant, and it sucks to code for it (I'm somewhat of a web developer).
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@GuinevereRucker: Seriously? Safari is a throw away. I used it on a mac, used it on a PC, didn't render pages right in either.
Firefox renders almost everything right with decent performance. I love my mouse gestures.
Chrome does javascript calls the quickest out of all of them, but for some reason doesn't like the default auto scroll.
IE in my experience has been great to code for, especially if you're not concerned with cross-browser support...the only problem being the lack of an IDE or object browser like firefox has.
@snowburnt: It renders pretty well on my version :)
I'll have to check out that gestures thing though.
I do hate coding for FF/Safari (looks great in both) and then trying IE and it's gross. Just makes me mad.
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@NilzXX: Uh, Safari is more standards compliant than IE, so I'd blame the Best Buy web design jackasses before I'd blame a browser.
@vjmurphy: The only thing that works right on Safari is the apple website. My preferences are: firefox, chrome, IE (I work in a windows shop so I need the ActiveX and SSO). I tried Safari but found it to be lacking.
If you stop visiting Russian P_rn sites you could be using IE 5, rather than the power sucking hog known to the world as Firefox.
@Synth3t1c: Firefox and Safari are built on differing rendering engines. I'm not sure why one \"should\" be used above the other. As long as pages are rendered correctly and security of one's computer system isn't compromised, what difference does it make?
Or is this just a general \"hate on anything that isn't Firefox\" response?
Well, it's not rendering properly in safari. I'm guessing that it must have worked in the developers browser, so...
@WillG: so... the developers were lazy and didn't do cross-browser testing. They likely used a proprietary development platform which integrates with one browser or uses its own for display. It's unprofessional. Developers have known that cross-platform testing of websites has been required for over 10 years now.
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Because Chrome offers simplicity for simplicity's sake...Chrome should be used.
I'm just joshin!
@Jim Topoleski: I could have guess that from their h4x0r 1337 screen name if I'd just thought for a moment.
Need some help taking some screen shots? I noticed that page in your taskbar
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I love that you had to google how to take screenshots on a mac. Command shift 3 for the whole screen, command shift 4 for a specific area and then hit space to get just the active window.
@post_break: All that for something Windows can do in a keystroke? I sure am glad I use such a user-friendly OS.
@Con Seannery '09: Illegal in 1 Giz: He meant that the Mac can deliver you a lossless PNG of a specified area right to your desktop with Ctrl+Shift+4(3 for whole screen), or just grab the active window. Windows still doesn't do that for me, at least not without $hareware
@Alex Miller: There's actually a way to set the quality and type of picture your screenshot takes. Mine get taken in JPG at a high quality.
Use [www.bresink.com] (free) to set this up.
@Alex Miller: I've never had a problem with image quality on my screenshots. Also, why do you insist on replacing pretty much every \"s\" related to anything MicroSoft with a dollar sign?
@CRCError1970:
Having to hit ctrl print screen, launch paint, paste, save as is way too much work. command shift 3/4 and the screenshot is sitting on my desktop in non lossy png. Try again.
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@post_break: I've always been partial to command + shift + 4 so I could select what portion to screencap...avoiding the potential for embarrassment!
You guys should know that all they care about are the highest and lowest grades. They don't actually record or care about anything but 1 or 10. As a former BestBuy employee I had to deal with these survey results every morning at the daily meeting. If they got a score of one, that department manager was in trouble, if they got a 10 high fives all around. But nothing ever changes from these surveys besides marketing companies getting your personal info so they can sell you more crap.
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@gemetzel: Yeah, my wife works for a national retail pharmacy chain and the surveys they have are scaled from 1-5. Which really means 1 or 5. I think it's total crap because I myself will very rarely give a max score to anyone.
Imagine how bunk the Olympics would be on this rating scale. \"Oh... Nadia only brings in an average score of 1... Tying her for first place with the rest of the competition. Next up is Kelli. If she has any hope of taking home the gold she MUST put in a perfect performance, otherwise she will have to share the medal with the rest of the world.\"
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I feel better knowing that I'm better web designer than those at Best Buy
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Looks like a browser rendering problem to me.
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@johnva: I was thinking the same thing. I've gotten this survey before, and pulled it up and it didn't look anything like this.
Of course, it is kind of funny about the way it comes up. :-)
Guess they shouldn't let their sales associates (or gawker media devs for that matter) style their pages for them!
To me, it looks like all ten circles are there for each question; they're just not falling into the appropriate boxes. I bet if you pick the uppermost circle on the \"availibility to help you\" section, it would be submitted as a ten even though the uppermost circle appears in box four.
I'll agree that the formatting needs to be better, but I don't think the results would be as skewed as they appear.
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I would put mostly 1's on principle.
(I wouldn't do all 1's or they might disregard it as a prank... which I guess it would be.)
Best Buy usually motivates within me feelings of loathing alternating with total apathy. However, in this case, it's motivating hilarity, which is, let's see, halfway between cruelly mocking and totally nonplussed, which is about ... 2.6?
Hate to break the news to ya, but if you answer all 1's on of these farking surveys, the survey handlers (aka the survey manipulators) are going to just kick the response out of the data base as being nonresponsive or a crank.
Ya really want to fark with an employee? Give everybody else (or every other section) in the business a superior score and mark down ONE employee or ONE section of the response.
Employee will start on his/her journey out of the business as soon as you complete the survey.
@Corporate-Shill: Why even have a survey, then? Sometimes a business deserves 1s. If they don't want to hear that...well, then that's probably part of the problem.
@MMD:
Every thing is a 1?
Location convenient? The business was open during hours advertised? The restroom was available for your use? You could find a checkout counter? The checkout girl was hot?
Something deserves more than a 1.
@Corporate-Shill: Yeah, see, that's why I said I would only do mostly 1s.
Sometimes, I just want to kick Best Buy in its collective ballsack.
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I managed to get a copy of BB's newest survey...
\"How awesome is Best Buy?'
a. very awesome
b. super awesome
c. better than sex awesome
\"Could Best Buy be any more perfect?\"
a. nope
b. no way
c. that's unpossible!
What do you like best about us?
a. BB has the latest tech before it's even invented, like the PS4 or Windows 8!
b. Free blow jobs by pro porn stars with every purchase!
c. Employees that know so much about technology, they can interface with machines mentally!
More examples of maximum suckage at Worst Buy.
And I bet it looks perfect in IE6.
Priorities...
There are times when you should not use tables for page layout. When laying out a naturally tabular form, it is not one of those times.
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It's better than their first survey idea:
I feel that Best Buy is
a) a Great Store
b) the Greatest Store.
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Dear Best Buy,
Fire the web developers.
Then kill yourself.
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Best Buy is demoting 8000 senior service people because we're in a recession, hello?
Also this is Safari, and while I am beginning to loathe this site for sensationalizing everything I have to say that it sucks that Apple decided to throw their own web standards into their browser.
Still an extra 3-4 hours of troubleshooting their web pages would fix this issue. Hard to say who's at fault, those that can't figure out which dot is which despite the bad layout or bby for not double checking their web code.
@Android8675: well really they demoted them because they restructired how the departments where set up and they were afride of too many cooks in the kitchen senario, but they still get the same pay, just not the title.
I tried Safari once. After about one painful hour i uninstalled it. Bad software, proprietary hardware that is lacking in features(no video in iphone,etc...). Can't they do anything right?
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I don't see what the big deal is. Say I want to give a 6.33 for Variety of Products. Now I can.
Would anybody really rate anything less than a 3 at BB anyway? (Sarcasm implied)