Comments on: Profile Mine: Rich Ajax MySpace Editor

By: jpimp

jpimp — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:49:52 +0000

elevating their already HIGH pimp points. to all my hoes and pimps holla at you bio:

http://www.myspace.com/78094881

By: greg

greg — Tue, 29 May 2007 17:19:07 +0000

if this isn’t something they intend to make money off of, I can’t fault them for not making it work in a browser they aren’t familiar with.

I wrote a little web toy/tool that only worked in firefox (mostly because some its cooler and more advanced features simply could NOT work in IE) but I had a hard time motivating myself to re-write the code to work with IE.

That said, I think id be too embarrassed to make something IE only. “Hi! I only know how to develop on a kludgey shitty browser! Please! Take me seriously!”

By: Kevin Isom

Kevin Isom — Sun, 27 May 2007 20:49:16 +0000

The MS AJAX framework is crossbrowser compliant. It’s the profilemine team that made the tool work only in IE. But like someone else said, the MySpace crowd would be almost exclusively IE users. It’s really just a matter of know your audience for your product. I highly doubt that this app was written for the same audience that frequents ajaxian.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Sun, 27 May 2007 15:47:16 +0000

the ones who say “i can do this way because others browsers users are not my target audience” should read this article
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200704/lame_excuses_for_not_being_a_web_professional/

so many crossbrowser js frameworks, standards compliant, why use MS framework?

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 26 May 2007 22:29:03 +0000

If I had any doubts that people who read this blog are in their own Web 2.0 world, they have been erased.

People who use MySpace aren’t techies or early adopters. IE’s just fine for those people. I bet if you polled MySpacers out there about Firefox, the majority wouldn’t even know what it was, let alone use it as their primary browser.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 25 May 2007 20:26:28 +0000

This editor is obviously built using IE’s incredibly useful contentEditable attribute, which has been around for ages.

When other web browser implementors get of their tails and implement it, a whole suite of IE-based tools will become cross-browser tools.

The MySpace crowd is somehwere around 90% IE-based, so taking advantage of IE-specific technology seems like a reasonable thing for them to do.

By: Will

Will — Fri, 25 May 2007 19:38:12 +0000

I am all for standards, but honestly MySpace isn’t exactly mission critical. You don’t need to edit your profile. It would be nice if it was cross browser, but if I’m dying to update my MySpace page, I think i’ll just fire up IE and be glad I can use _something_ for free.

By: web design firenze

web design firenze — Fri, 25 May 2007 18:57:40 +0000

Agree, completly unacceptable, and man I love the fact that everyone agrees on this.

By: nagaozen

nagaozen — Fri, 25 May 2007 17:04:14 +0000

Nowadays it’s unacceptable an application that’s not crossbrowser… sorry, i dont like it.

By: amackay11

amackay11 — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:53:03 +0000

Microsoft standards = oxymoron

By: Rory

Rory — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:01:17 +0000

Who develops to Microsoft standards anymore..? pfft

By: Cameron

Cameron — Fri, 25 May 2007 13:40:42 +0000

I tried to get it working in firefox on mac and got the following:

Our advanced technology MySpace editor relies on the MSHTML engine. This engine is built into Internet Explorer by default, but is only available in FireFox with the use of the IETab FireFox add-on which can be downloaded from here: