Opera Extensions have been confirmed as a feature of Opera 11. "Extensions in Opera is a way for you to easily add new functionality to your Opera browser experience. Developers can easily create extensions using open standards (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript) and supported APIs. Extensions will be based on the W3C Widget specifications and this is being considered for an Open Standard effort."
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Member since:2006-05-18
As a webdeveloper, I'm not happy that there are still such sites. I'd like very much to see browser technology evolve at a much higher pace breaking compatibility as needed with older, bad or proprietary standards.
But, also as a webdeveloper I have to understand that people will use older browsers (for one reason or another) and my clients will still want to sell those people stuff.
So, for me that means that I have to STFU and tweak the site to death until in works in IE6&7.
I think the same is true for browser makers. They'd like to leave all the cruft behind, to make their rendering engines modern, to implement the latest standards, but the reality is that there are a lot of sites (the majority?) that are made by half-assed webdevelopers that would break instantly.
So, if I'm a clueless user switching from IE to Opera and find that my favorite recipe site doesn't work anymore, will I blame the site for not respecting web standards, or will I blame my brand new browser?
There's a reason that Firefox was successful in the beginning. It was not the extensions (because at the time there were few and less important than they are now), it was the fact that it rendered the current web the same as IE6 while having Tabs, Security and Speed.
TL;DR: You have to be realistic. Sites and people don't change because one browser developer says so.
Member since:2010-03-30
Fine. I got you 100%. But then we will see ourselves not being able to exploit the full potential, whatever that "full potential" may mean, and that's for a somewhat long time to come.
Although I understand all you wrote, I still think that there's a point where "legacy" should be ditched (for instance, try to create a folder named "con" in XP or Vista...), all the more when 1- that legacy didn't comply with then-known standards and 2- imposes additional work on browser developers. I don't mention the availability of tools to "standardize" those sites because I know nothing about it, I can only guess such tools are more available now that the open source software wave has reached us than back then, in the late 90's or just after...
I don't have much faith in clueless people's will to exert intelligence or simply put their brain to use. I think they'll eat whatever they are served.
As a web developer who has (had?) to deal with such sites, what are the reasons that prevent some of them from "moving on", redesigning, etc? Is it monetary considerations? service interruption? not seeing the benefit of going clean and standard? or else?
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Exactly twenty years ago, a document was published that played a huge role in establishing the web as we know it today. Twenty years later, and this simple and straightforward document is proof of an irrefutable fact: while closed technologies can change markets, open technologies can change the world.Oh multitasking. That staple of computing that got thrown out the window with many modern smartphones. We got some rudimentary thing in its place - but even as multitasking on phone and tablets improves, its user-visible side remains cumbersome. Windows 8 has a neat implementation, and now it's time Android follows in it footsteps.They're here! Whether that excites you or not remains to be seen, but the Galaxy S4, which will most likely become the best selling Android smartphone of the year by a huge margin, has been reviewed by all the major sites, and there's lots of interesting conclusions in there - although I think most of you will get the gist.Nokia has posted its quarterly results for the first quarter of 2013, and just like the quarters that came before, there's not a whole lot of good news in there. The rise in Lumia sales still can't even dream of making up for the sales drop in Symbian phones, and when broken down in versions, the sales figures for Windows Phone 8 Lumias in particular are very disappointing. In North America, Nokia is getting slaughtered.
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2010-03-30
And why should anyone care about rendering the non-standard compliant web when there are standards in the first place?
These "non-standard compliant" sites are imposing useless work to browser vendors and slowing down everybody by dragging their feet. How many times has it been said here on OSNews about IE6?
The best way to have them abide by the standards is to not provide any support for them. When their users/readers start to complain or leave, they'll do what they should have done. Otherwise, I don't see what incentive they would have for changing the crap they make available out there.