Apple had a baby “design” its new Apple ID website

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It’s the UGLIEST website I have seen since I got my first computer in 1999. Sadly, it is Apple ID new website.

It’s only message is quite clear: Don’t bother with getting a good graphics card with your next computer and especially don’t bother getting anything from Apple anymore.

It’s here: https://appleid.apple.com/. It will NOT load on the two browsers I use all the time…Basilisk (default browser) and an older version of Firefox ESR. It does load on portable Fx that I rarely use. The old Apple website loaded on ALL my browsers and looked great. The new site only loads HALF WAY on my browsers EXCEPT Edge which I don’t like and seldom use. There are NO error messages about the site only partially loading and I had no idea the site was not fully loaded until I finally loaded it also on Edge. So, it probably works fine on Chrome which you couldn’t pay me to use.

What is the point in even having a computer if the graphics on websites are practically non-existent? Is this Apple’s way of trying to kill desktop computers (since Windows ones, at least, tend to have a video card chosen carefully by the user and as expensive as they can afford even when they are not “gamers”)? I was even considering moving from Windows to a Mac when I purchase a new computer in another year or so but not anymore.

I have an iPhone 10 R and an iWatch series 5 and two Windows computers (one on Windows 10 21H1) but no Apple computers. Maybe it looks much nicer on them?

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I can connect to your link with both Opera and FF 93.0. It’s not the coolest site I’ve ever been to but it’s no worse than, for example, google.com

Perhaps this is more to your liking:

https://support.apple.com/apple-id

which I can also connect to with Opera and FF. I’m running Linux Mint on a 5 year old pc that came with Win 7.

Not trying to start a fight but you’re not going to buy a mac because you don’t like the way one web page looks?

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The site loads fine on browsers with current feature sets. You’ve mentioned it works fine on Edge and portable Firefox, and I just tried it on Firefox 94 and Vivaldi 4.2, and it loaded fine in both.

It’s no surprise that sites may not work on older Firefox ESR releases, given that they are by definition out of date, and Basilisk is “A close twin to pre-Servo Firefox in how it operates.”

Servo has been a part of Firefox since Quantum, which arrived four years ago. Like Waterfox Classic, Basilisk is deliberately using a set of backend features four years out of date, and this kind of incompatibility with some sites can be expected. It’s why I stopped using Waterfox Classic despite my strong preference for its continued compatibility with the powerful classic extensions rather than the Chrome-style “lite” addons that are the only choice with Quantum Firefox. A browser that has a neat feature set but that doesn’t actually work for all the sites I want to visit isn’t of much use.

Graphics cards don’t have anything to do with the browser incompatibility.

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Both sites look good just now using the latest version of Waterfox Current (G4). I reluctantly stopped using “Classic” some months ago for the reasons mentioned by Ascaris.

I just tried to see if a problem I had with WF previous version (G3) when searching for strings of characters, mostly words such as last names of an artist or writer, or the main word in the title of a book, to locate quickly some comments on topics with those words in them, in long threads in AskWoody, for example, has been resolved in G4. Well, yes it has been.

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DrBonzo wrote:

Perhaps this is more to your liking:

https://support.apple.com/apple-id

which I can also connect to with Opera and FF. I’m running Linux Mint on a 5 year old pc that came with Win 7.

Yes, I have always liked that Apple Support page BUT now I cannot reach it on my default browser or Fx 60.9 ESR which is the other browser I usually use. Now I will have to open Fx 78 ESR which I don’t much like or Edge, Vivaldi, or Brave. No browser, IMO, can hold even a tiny candle to Basilisk which is the best browser I have used in over 20 years.

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Ascaris wrote:

Graphics cards don’t have anything to do with the browser incompatibility.

Yes, I know that but what I meant was that a site that is deliberately designed to be very minimalistic and downright BARREN looking is an insult to anyone who spent a lot of money on a really good video card when they are not a gamer.

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Sorry, that does not make any sense. Why would I want a website that makes heavy use of my graphics card? That just makes the website take longer to load, wastes power for those on battery, and disadvantages people who don’t have beefy graphics cards.

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Mele20 wrote:

spent a lot of money on a really good video card when they are not a gamer.

I spent a lot of money (at the time) on video card. What does it add to browsing this forum (or any site ?).
Browsers don’t usually use discrete GPUs unless specifically set so.

Apple’s ID website works fine for me with Edge, Chrome, Firefox ESR 91.3

A browser that isn’t compatible with the site is a security hazard (old, unpatched..).

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No problem using that link with my default browser – Firefox 86.0.1 (which I won’t update now Mozilla has made UI changes).

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