Safari Fundraising Progress

March 6th, 2007 by ailon

Half of the term for our fundraising effort to buy Mac to try and implement Safari support in SPAW Editor has passed but we only have pledges for less than 25% of the target amount. Judging from these numbers logical conclusion would be to assume that there’s no real interest in Safari support and investing significant amount (at least in this project terms) into this feature wont be highly appreciated by the community.

Sure, theoretically this could change in those 12 days that are left but something tells me that it’s not going to happen.

However we do understand the importance of support of all possible browser platforms. So, here’s the deal: if by the end of fundraising period (March 18, 2007) we will have pledges for at least 50% of the amount we will pledge the remainder ourselves.

In case you really want SPAW to work under Safari or know someone who is not aware of this effort or have a blog or participate in some forum where community would appreciate this feature, you or your friends or hardcore Apple fans or even Apple representatives can make a pledge of $25 or higher by visiting the page of this effort at fundable.org

You can find more information on the effort in the initial post.

And don’t forget that all donors (even if we don’t collect the amount and you won’t be charged anything) will get 10% discount on any commercial SPAW Editor license. So, if you were planning to purchase an enterprise license you will actually save money by donating $25! And if our campaign still fails you will just get 10% without spending a cent simply for showing good will.

If you make a pledge don’t forget to drop us a line at spaw@solmetra.com so we can send you a coupon code for your 10% discount since we can’t see your full email in fundable.org’s interface.

5 Responses to “Safari Fundraising Progress”

  1. Kenny Says:

    Well, I tried to raise the fund, but there was a mistake when I had to fill all my informations for the payment.
    The formular only accepted a postcode with 5 digits for Belgium and we only have 4 digits.
    So I send them (the organisation that manage the fundraising system) a mail (27/02/2007) to tell them that, and ask them to inform me when it’s fixed…. I still have no answers from them.. That’s pity..(mainly for you I guess :-( )

    If you know another way to do it, I’ll be happy to help you to raise the fund :-)

    Kenny

  2. ailon Says:

    Did you try via credit card or paypal? Is it really important that you enter correct postalcode?

  3. Matt Says:

    Just a thought but… what about padding your 4 digits postcode with a leading zero to make it 5 digits long? We also use 4 digits postcodes in Switzerland, and I have successfully used this technique several times, always passed validation so far (i.e. either the comparison with the CC data is numeric and not string-based, or more likely non-existent in my case, possibly yours too).

    Also tried to raise funds for Safari, but my current customer is not using macs at all, so no way :-( well, maybe someday…

  4. philip Says:

    tried to help to raise the money - wasn’t enough I think ;-)
    alternatively (as I personally do) I suggest to use firefox on the Mac - works fine…
    keep on going!
    philip

  5. ailon Says:

    Thanks Philip. Over here we have yet to find a client who uses Mac to update his site :) Anyway when lots of people around the world use SPAW there are quite some who would appreciate Safari support. We are looking at cheap old macs now and I think we’ll buy one of these soon.

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