Comments on: Paying for a Web Browser

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:22:48 +0000

Rocky, if you write code that is complies with the W3C recommendations you won't have to write separate versions for different browsers–your page will work the same in all browsers.
Validate your home page–it has 46 errors. And yet your home page still works in Opera. Opera is pretty forgiving, actually, but it does render code the way the W3C intends, whereas IE has lots of bugs and supports lots of non-standard stuff.
The problem is that many website developers have never learned what the standards are. They write non-standard code that works OK in IE, then complain when modern, standards-compliant browsers like Safari or Opera or the Gecko-based browsers don't display their pages as they intended. That is like blaming your new car for the bumpy ride when it is the road that is bumpy.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:15:30 +0000

Actually, on several of my sites I plan to banning Opera users as it is too much work to make compatible versions that play well with Opera and still works well under IE/Firefox. Sometimes you have to bend the web design “standards” just enough to get a site to render the same on IE/Firefox while at the same time break Opera. My logs show that there are few Opera visitors and that does not justify the extra work.
Rocky
http://www.RockyMoore.com

By: zenyenta

zenyenta — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 01:43:25 +0000

I'm the only one who actually likes the ads, right? I mostly use Firefox, but once in a while it comes in handy to have another browser – like when you want to log into two accounts on a single domain at once. For a while, when Opera 7 was first released I was trying it on as my main browser and found some great sites with the ads. They matched what I was searching for better than the search results or the adwords on the search page did. What it came down to, was that there are just too many things that don't work with Opera to use it anything like exclusively. Regardless of whose fault it is, you need things to work. Also, as Firefox has developed it's so customizable there's really nothing that Opera can do that it can't, or at least nothing I care about.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 00:41:52 +0000

Actually, I'm considering paying for OmniWeb, which has proven to be quite nifty.
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 04:20:05 +0000

Well said, Chris. I started using the Mozilla suite exclusively about a year-and-a-half ago, and have never looked back. I would never pay for a browser.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:22:58 +0000

Amen, brother.

By: izotov

izotov — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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