I already gave the address earlier in the thread. webmail.mac.com and webmail.me.com. Both go to the same place. Why not try and see the error demanding a different browser.

every link you listed sent me to http://www.apple.com/mobileme/ which worked fine on my n800

Seconded. Even on Safari 3.1 on Mac OS X 10.4.11, I'm redirected to http://www.apple.com/mobileme/, an informational page about the MobileMe service.

Instead of complaining about the browser (when Apple might be sending damaged HTML because microb is not firefox), why not try changing the user agent string to iPhone (another thread shows how to see iPhone formatted content), Or maybe say you are vanilla FF2, and/or download the actual HTML of the me.com output. "It doesn't work" isn't very detailed.

First, this would resolve where the problem is coming from - either Apple delivering a "we hate your browser so will ruin your experience" page, or the actual and specif HTML/CSS/whatever code that microb is failing to support properly.

Then there are way of resolving things. me.com is still being developed and I don't care what apple SAYS about supporting standards and whatever. Unless the actual stream delivered to microb passes every test, and not whatever is being fed to opera, firefox, safari, or any verson of IE, you can't say they are being compliant. You don't know.

It's not just MicroB - lots of browsers (IE6 for example), don't work with me.com.

(If SirAlien's incomplete URLs are confusing you try www.me.com in MicroB and you'll see the message he's getting.)

Your irritation would be better directed at Apple's increasingly MS-style 'closed box' antics than at a developer community that, in many cases, works completely for free.

I'm an Apple fan with a .mac email account and I like several aspects of me.com but the company's growing tendency to force users onto specific platforms or lock them into Apple-only services is becoming irritating enough that I'll shift to Linux when I have some time to transition all my stuff.

After all, it's this sort of closed-box garbage ('hey guys! Let's force people onto specific browsers and make sure there's a huge Safari link when we do so! Genius!!') that made me ditch Windows five years ago.

Alternatively, you could take the advice given here and change your browser's agent thingy (I'm no techie but there are instructions here).

Thirded. On both FF 2.0.0.11 and IE6.

From what I read on http://www.apple.com/mobileme/ web page, the webmail service is "Available Soon" (http://www.apple.com/mobileme/pricing/). I don't even see a way to get to any Webmail service...

Eh, the .mac webmail interface always worked for me with MicroB in the past. Now it seems to be down for maintenance. The links you gave me don't even offer a login option.

I'd say this is clearly an Apple issue.

Hmmm I don't understand where you're getting the "Opera and safari passed the test"

Opera 9.5 on my mac scored an 83, impressive but still a fail.

and Safari 2 on my mac scored a lousy 41.

I haven't tried it in Safari 3. FF3 scores a 71

He probably means the WebKit SVN (which definitely scores 100, though the rendering is quite up to speed yet).

me.com is location specific, as are many Apple services like for instance AppStore.