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Your argumentation ignores that Google had to invest money to test for another browser, which may be more than the money they can make on adverts to Opera users
by sgift 16y ago
Your argumentation ignores that Google had to invest money to test for another browser, which may be more than the money they can make on adverts to Opera users. This has nothing to do with any supposed problems in Operas js handling (which I've never noted ... for me the js works just fine in Opera and disallowing js to handle the right mouse button is a great feature), but is a simple cost-benefit analysis.
- andrewl-hn 16y agoGoogle preemptively tries to kick Opera out of the browser world. Many new services come up with dedicated code to block Opera claiming that this browser can't handle them. I can't tell you how many times I changed Opera's UA string to Firefox and those services start working. Magic! <sarcasm Not testing for a particular browser is fine (and truth be told Opera just works in 99.99% of the time). Blocking it just because one can is pure evil!
- Shorel 16y agoOf course, Opera is the only browser that has challenged Chrome claims of the faster browser ever (in production builds, that's it). > Blocking it just because one can is pure evil! It means they value market share over standards. Very evil indeed.