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From an objective point of view, why should this matter to Opera when they were trying to evaluating the best hardware for the large amount of money they were s

From an objective point of view, why should this matter to Opera when they were trying to evaluating the best hardware for the large amount of money they were spending? It's an emotional reason rather than a rational one, which doesn't seem like a very good way to make a decision when spending gobs of money. Also, is Opera unable to recognize that the vendor has limited engineering and support resources, and that supporting a browser with limited market share has ramifications for both those things? Wikipedia says Opera has less than 1% of browser market share. I have nothing against Opera, but from a neutral point of view, can they really say it makes sense for the vendor to spend time and money testing and supporting a platform that barely anyone uses? I feel like Opera should be asking why the vendor feels the need to do this, rather than getting self-righteous about it.

callahad 17y ago
can they really say it makes sense for the vendor to spend time and money testing and supporting a platform that barely anyone uses? There's a huge gulf between "we don't support Opera" and "no version of Opera is allowed to even try to render our pages."
- codyrobbins 17y ago
  I agree. However, that's the point. Completely barring Opera means they're certain they won't receive any support requests from people using Opera. Doing otherwise means opening their support apparatus to people using Opera, who might find all sorts of things wrong with the software and not realize it's because the software isn't tested with it. Of course, given the small number of people using Opera, the question is whether there would really be much of a burden on their resources.
ubernostrum 17y ago
If Opera were significantly and wildly incompatible with other "popular" browsers like Firefox and Safari, you might have a point, but not much of one. But the plain fact is that, these days, the only browser which incurs support costs high enough to consider cutting out is Internet Explorer. Stuff that works in any of the other browsers will, almost always, work in all of them.

callahad 17y ago

can they really say it makes sense for the vendor to spend time and money testing and supporting a platform that barely anyone uses? There's a huge gulf between "we don't support Opera" and "no version of Opera is allowed to even try to render our pages."

codyrobbins 17y ago
I agree. However, that's the point. Completely barring Opera means they're certain they won't receive any support requests from people using Opera. Doing otherwise means opening their support apparatus to people using Opera, who might find all sorts of things wrong with the software and not realize it's because the software isn't tested with it. Of course, given the small number of people using Opera, the question is whether there would really be much of a burden on their resources.

ubernostrum 17y ago

If Opera were significantly and wildly incompatible with other "popular" browsers like Firefox and Safari, you might have a point, but not much of one. But the plain fact is that, these days, the only browser which incurs support costs high enough to consider cutting out is Internet Explorer. Stuff that works in any of the other browsers will, almost always, work in all of them.