Hello Chris, First, let me say that you are definitely not imagining things with regard to the Barnes and Noble website and Safari--at least, not really (smile).
1. After reading your post, I fired up Safari on my MBP mid-2014 running El Capitan. I went to Barnes and Noble.com. I had absolutely no problem in logging in and browsing the site. However, I did notice that there is a perpetually updating banner/graphics in the middle of each page. 2. I signed out of my account, closed Safari, and then re-opened Safari and went back to the site. This time, before logging back in, the site was slow, oh so slow and sluggish. I kept getting busy warnings and I noticed that the VoiceOver focus did not match the actual cursor focus. The more I used the VO commands, the more out of sync the focus and, consequently, the more sluggish the experience. Even stopping and re-starting VoiceOver had no effect. In a word, it was terrible. 3. I closed Safari and re-opened, yet again, and, again, went back to the site. This third-time, was a smooth as the first. I had no lag and easily entered my credentials and successfully navigated the site. So, Chris, there is definitely something going on and I would wager that it has something to do with the HTML 5 scripts they are using in order to keep the banner/graphics constantly updating. 4. As an aside, I logged onto the site in IE 11 and had no problem navigating via Jaws v17.x. Just in case you're interested. Mark ----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Gilland Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 7:32 PM To: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries Subject: Barnes and Noble web site driving me nuts! Guys, I'm not sure how many of you, if any use the Barnes and Noble web site to purchase online books either digitally or whatever, but I'm telling you one thing: I've not use the site in quite a while. Last time I did, it was gorgeous, but now, to say it's a mess is an under-statement. Every time I try opening the site with Safari, Crome, or for that mind, even with Webkit's nightly build, Voiceover totally locks up going busy. A few times, I tried navigating to the site, and it wouldn't even fully load. I had to hit command+R to refresh about 5 or 6 times before it finally decided to fully load. When I called their support, they insisted it was an issue with my mac, but if that's the case, then explain to me how come I'm having this issue on all 3 of my macs, and also have the issue on my mom's mac mini as well. Obviously, there is an issue, but B&N are refusing to admit it, which is a shame, considering that their I O S app is so well designed. Before anyone says, what's wrong with just using IBooks, I'll say there's nothing at all wrong with it. I love IBooks. I just like having various different EBook readers on hand. You'll never know when one may have a book that another doesn't. Anyway, is anyone else noticing this with the mac when you try going to the web site? If nothing else, once there, try going to the account link. Then things really will start to fall apart, I almost can guarantee it. If it does work for you, it'll most likely be very very sluggish. Chris. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
