Why Morningstar (and Joe) Suck….

Fri, February 4, 2005 — Category: Personal

So, I’ve emailed joe@morningstar.com about a javascript bug that I’m experience in FireFox on MorningStar’s “Charts & Returns” web page: notice you can’t click on the tabs for each timeframe of the Chart image (this only happens in mozilla-based browsers).
First time I emailed joe@morningstar.com, he didn’t reply (I even sent him a link to the […]

First time I emailed joe@morningstar.com, he didn’t reply (I even sent him a link to the ever-so-simple fix I created and documented to make it work. After finding other bugs with MorningStar’s web site, I emailed joe@morningstar.com again…this time he replied, and said “We only support Internet Explorer”…well that’s just not good enough Joe! We, the savvy, use FireFox…and some of us even use Linux!! (imagine that, not using Microsoft products at all!!).

It’s about time you, Joe@Morningstar.com, get with the program, and start supporting mozilla-based browsers on your web site, after all it’s two lines of javascript you need to have your engineers fix to get a major feature of the web site (charting) to work. It’s reawlly not that hard. As a web developer myself, I cannot stress how you need to support, Safari, IE 4+, and mozilla-based browsers.

I’ve been using MorningStar for quite some time, and sware by it. I’ve told my mom (and countless co-workers and friends) who NEVER uses the Internet about it, and she even loves the site (and of course, yes, I got her using FireFox too) - that’s two of us Joe@MorningStar.com who can’t use your web site.

I’m afraid though, that I’m going to have to start recommending Yahoo Finance to my avid readers and friends. As they are a REAL Internet company, who sees the value in supporting alternative browsers to that piece-of-crap you’re so happy to use Joe@morningstar.com.

By the way, if you’re a fellow FireFox user, or simply “down with the cause…” shoot Joe an email. Incase you didn’t catch it, his email is: joe@morningstar.com

Thank you!
Anthony

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Comment by Anonymous

February 12, 2005 @ 11:04 pm

> I work at a major Internet company (one that is bigger and more well known than MorningStar), and we do it right. We support, Safari, IE 4+, and mozilla-based browsers (unofficially of course, but most of us use FireFox at work anyway - because, well, you have to be intelligent to get hired here in the first place).

Wow, you’re really important. The downside is, you’re also kind of a jerk.

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Comment by chovy

February 15, 2005 @ 9:13 pm

POint taken. I removed that line. I was frustrated with the big companies not supporting FireFox.

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Comment by Anonymous

February 17, 2005 @ 1:50 pm

My friend, you have no idea how much Morningstar really sucks. The place is a hellhole. As anyone who works in programming at Morningstar.

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Comment by Captain Crusader

September 20, 2007 @ 3:52 pm

Yup, Morningstar is a sweatshop run by idiots who think they’re hip and with it. I’ve never seen such an arrogant bunch of people who don’t know what they’re really doing. I would never trust Morningstar with my investments. I wouldn’t let them walk my dog.

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December 30, 2007 @ 1:01 pm

nice article…

nice article…

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Comment by The Misanthrope

March 14, 2008 @ 4:55 am

Morningstar sucks balls, MarketWatch sucks ass, and Reuters Finance is no prize when it comes to compatibility with Firefox. It is unfortunate that these “necessary evils” for those of us in the investment community show such bias toward Microsoft, whether it is truly favoritism or just plain programmer laziness. It pains me to surrender to employing IE Tab (not even an option when I’m running Linux) to render these sites, but I can’t very well say “fuck you, I’m taking my business elsewhere,” for that would be cutting my nose off to spite my face. And, so long as a tiny handful of readers don’t use Internet Expoder, they’re never going to care. These are the things that make me crazy.

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