Opera needs to stop accusing us of being lazy, and to die. They had their attempt and they blew it. Their existens only hinders the progress of the web.
Opera needs to stop accusing us of being lazy, and to die. They had their attempt and they blew it. Their existens only hinders the progress of the web.
Opera Mini works very well on mobile phones for example.
You're also on a web site with a lot of people working at startups: pretty much the epitome of not accepting the status quo and creating new things. If we all said "screw it" when big projects took over, the world would be a lot less interesting.
Firefox doesn't support the webkit-prefixed CSS properties. They are also considering going down the same road as Opera and implementing these non-standard CSS extensions.
So you driving an old car does not mean I can't drive a new much more fuel-efficient car.
A web browser on the other hand has a gigantic interface between it and the users and as such it is extremely arrogant to assume that the web should be held back due to your choice of browser.
If you don't like the look of it, or whatever you can totally apply skins or plugins to make it obey voice commands (I would love to read a blog post about how you did that) since those things don't interfere with the progress of the web.
http://html5test.com/results/desktop.html
Yes, I agree being held back by one browser is a problem. However, that browser is IE8.
Google and Mozilla may have bigger teams, but the most innovation is still coming out of Norway.