Multiple issues signing in and viewing contents on Apple dot com.
Hello,
After the most recent maintenance operations usability of Apple-dot-com for me suffered in a very crucial manner. I have troubles signing in to Apple Support Communities, the developer web-site, viewing entire sections (such as Refurbished). I run several browsers of varied up-to-date status, the newest ones being Waterfox 56.2.5 (based on Firefox ESR 56.2.5, the current version), Chrome 49 (2016) and the oldest being Safari 5.1.7. In the last several days Waterfox and Safari failed to load contents of authorization page to ASC and Chrome was able to go past authorization to completely blank spaces both on ASC and the developer zone.
As of today browsing, loading and signing in with Chrome is back to a normal mode, Waterfox fails to load the authorization page to ASC but for the most part it's OK and now I'm typing this in it. However the most sever damage is done to Safari 5.1.7. Now I hear you saying that it's very old etc, however I haven't had any issues prior to the recent "overhaul" and the experience was some decent for 80-90%. I was able to view, log in, navigate any page and any section. To those questioning my choice of Safari I preferred it to other browsers because of number of reasons (couple of Safari-only add-ons, auto-correction, text-to-speech, dictionary, Reader mode, easy and cozy interface other perks missing in WF and Chrome). I thought that was logical, since major portions of Apple site contain plain text that's in no way need super-duper thingamajigs. I can't even load "Refurbished items" in it any longer. By the way, I have a version of Firefox (I believe it's 10) which is of the same age as Safari 5 with which I was able to access the developer site.
I see the changes: editing options moved to the bottom of the composer window, effectively making into the scarce "streamlined" tools represented by indistinguishable primitively-looking icons buried in shades of grey lacking to spur even tooltips as the pointer moves over it.
Was it worth to johnyivizate Apple-com site any further? Am I right to suppose that all that means Safari 5 is Persona non grata on Apple.com? I used the built-in feedback option in Safari multiple times over the course of the last few days but something tells me that won't make any difference. There's not any option to switch to the lighter version of the site.