Reply
Thread Tools
Posts: 435 | Thanked: 1,599 times | Joined on Dec 2010
#3431
Originally Posted by Pim View Post
My piece of advice in general on flying with Ryanair: Don't.
The only trouble with ryanair are the passengers who want the moon on a stick for £17.99!
 

The Following 6 Users Say Thank You to tommo For This Useful Post:
pichlo's Avatar
Posts: 6,445 | Thanked: 20,981 times | Joined on Sep 2012 @ UK
#3432
Originally Posted by Pim View Post
My piece of advice in general on flying with Ryanair: Don't.
Haha. Very funny. FYI, there are destinations where nothing else flies, at least not directly. There are occasions when I would rather pay £150 for an uncomfortable return flight than £400 for a comfortable one way. And there are other websites that do not work in the Sailfish browser, not just Ryanair.
__________________
Русский военный корабль, иди нахуй!
 

The Following 4 Users Say Thank You to pichlo For This Useful Post:
nthn's Avatar
Posts: 764 | Thanked: 2,888 times | Joined on Jun 2014
#3433
In case you have a choice, I've found Wizzair to be more enjoyable than Ryanair as far as low cost companies are concerned, for even better prices (of course, this likely depends a lot on the routes as well).
 

The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to nthn For This Useful Post:
Posts: 702 | Thanked: 2,059 times | Joined on Feb 2011 @ UK
#3434
Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
Has anyone tried booking a flight with Ryanair using the Jolla's stock browser?
I can give you a piece of advice. Don't.
To be fair, at one point you couldn't book a flight with Ryanair with Safari on a Mac. Their site sucked donkey balls.

... Not that us Mac users would stoop to flying budget of course.
 

The Following 7 Users Say Thank You to aegis For This Useful Post:
Guest | Posts: n/a | Thanked: 0 times | Joined on
#3435
Originally Posted by aegis View Post
To be fair, at one point you couldn't book a flight with Ryanair with Safari on a Mac. Their site sucked donkey balls.

... Not that us Mac users would stoop to flying budget of course.
Speak for yourself, my Mac brethren. I once flew in the back of a cargo plane from Ankara to Cairo... all to save some money.

At the end of the day, I think we all can point out an expected convenience that was somehow met with some usability shortcomings due to technical limitations at that time.

Sadly I've run into many of those via the Jolla browser. Most would never be considered or visited by many on this site. But those grievances exist regardless and are not fun whenever encountered.
 

The Following 5 Users Say Thank You to For This Useful Post:
Posts: 11 | Thanked: 14 times | Joined on Jun 2014
#3436
The Ryanair Android app works fine on Jolla.
I used it many times and it's better than mobile website.

Cheers.
 

The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to pdanek For This Useful Post:
pichlo's Avatar
Posts: 6,445 | Thanked: 20,981 times | Joined on Sep 2012 @ UK
#3437
That may be the case but, not having Android, I would never have known if you haven't told me
__________________
Русский военный корабль, иди нахуй!
 

The Following User Says Thank You to pichlo For This Useful Post:
Copernicus's Avatar
Posts: 1,986 | Thanked: 7,698 times | Joined on Dec 2010 @ Dayton, Ohio
#3438
You know, this Ryanair thing leads me to a question: is the problem here really the Jolla browser, or the Ryanair website? Creating a website that works on a broad range of web browsers is not rocket science: you simply adhere to the published W3C standards.

Problem is, nobody ever adheres to the standards. For some reason, big companies always produce pages that depend on features specific to Microsoft's browser, or Google's browser, or use some goofy plugin. There's always a race to add dependencies on the newest, least-supported, and most broken features as well. It kinda drives me nuts...
 

The Following 4 Users Say Thank You to Copernicus For This Useful Post:
Guest | Posts: n/a | Thanked: 0 times | Joined on
#3439
Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
You know, this Ryanair thing leads me to a question: is the problem here really the Jolla browser, or the Ryanair website? Creating a website that works on a broad range of web browsers is not rocket science: you simply adhere to the published W3C standards.
I'd say both are the culprit. Adhering to W3C standards doesn't mean that the browser will render it correctly *cough*IE6, 7, 8 or 9*cough* - and that makes for a rather limited site.

Problem is, nobody ever adheres to the standards.
Amen brother.

For some reason, big companies always produce pages that depend on features specific to Microsoft's browser, or Google's browser, or use some goofy plugin.
Or their interpretation of JavaScript.

There's always a race to add dependencies on the newest, least-supported, and most broken features as well. It kinda drives me nuts...
Other end of the spectrum, folks that want an utterly bland ****ing Internet with websites that are nothing but text and actually increase cognitive load and induce choice paralysis due to everything being structured as an engineer would like it, but not the layman.

There's a fine mix to be found; the people are just yelling for radically different things. In the least, the websites should gracefully degrade to something that works for the minimum. Somehow that's rarely the case as well.

Oh well... this indecision keeps me busy and employed.
 

The Following 5 Users Say Thank You to For This Useful Post:
pichlo's Avatar
Posts: 6,445 | Thanked: 20,981 times | Joined on Sep 2012 @ UK
#3440
Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
You know, this Ryanair thing leads me to a question: is the problem here really the Jolla browser, or the Ryanair website?
As gerbic says, probably a bit of both. The site is very heavy on JavaScript, with a change in one selection box, e.g. the country, resulting in an instant update of the selection options in another, e.g. the airport. I have not checked how compliant it is but it works in every desktop browser I have thrown at it. Jolla tries but loses breath, the poor thing.
__________________
Русский военный корабль, иди нахуй!
 

The Following 3 Users Say Thank You to pichlo For This Useful Post:
Reply

Tags
jolla, review, sailfish, the other half, user experience


 
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 08:44.