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Lack of resources is a answer I am willing to accept from say Grooveshark. But, when Google and Facebook offer that same excuse, its a lot harder to digest. Als
by Indyan 15y ago
Lack of resources is a answer I am willing to accept from say Grooveshark. But, when Google and Facebook offer that same excuse, its a lot harder to digest.
Also, once you realize that Opera supports most Google products without any special optimization, that fallacy of that logic becomes apparent. Remember that Google optimized Google Instant for the listed browsers, but it didn't for Opera. Yet, Google Instant worked in Opera right from the beginning, as long as you masked your useragent as Firefox. Yes, changing the useragent fixed the incompatibility problem!
Same thing is happening with G+. Mask as Firefox and the notification and share options that are normally not available in the Google bar in Opera because visible.
Browser sniffing sucks. Its time that Google followed what it preached and developed websites that follow the spirit of "Open Web".
Related Reading Material: http://techie-buzz.com/browsers/google-instant-opera.html http://techie-buzz.com/browsers/google-instant-opera.html
http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/2009/11/05/the-lengths-to-go-to-to-get-a-site-fixed http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/2009/11/05/the-lengths-to-go-t...
http://my.opera.com/hallvors/blog/ http://my.opera.com/hallvors/blog/
http://my.opera.com/core/blog/show.dml/3130540 http://my.opera.com/core/blog/show.dml/3130540
- campnic 15y agoI really don't understand this perspective. Google has lots of resources. Google has lots of projects. A particular team may not have more or less resources then Grooveshark. There is no 'fallacy of logic'. You build the broadest support you can with the resources you have. I don't think their lack of support of Opera for a beta project suggests anything about their support of Opera besides they consider it a lower priority then the four browsers listed. Its not a personal affront. They just don't have unlimited people. Would you be surprised to learn they don't yet support text based browsing using lynx? I wouldn't.
- Wilya 15y agoIf I am using lynx, chances are high that I know some things are not going to work anyway. I don't need google to tell me this. And in many cases (not for Google+, I think they rely too much on js.), some things will work. Plus, there is a middle ground between blacklisting lynx and blacklisting cutting-edge or almost cutting-edge browsers.
- Indyan 15y agoIf this was just happening with Google+ then your point of view would have been understandable. But, this has happened in the past with Google Search, Google Docs, Picasa and pretty much every Google product. In each of those cases masking Opera as Fx solved the problem, but Google took months to officially solve the issue, if they at all did.