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Comment by tomjen3 | Hacker News Reader

Actually all browsers, except IE, should update themselves per default.

The problem is basically that IE and Opera hasn't been run of the market yet.

I'm sorry, but I fail to understand your grief about Opera. They've been nothing if not standard compliant since before most people had internet access. Not to mention the huge amount of not-PC-hardware they have provided a browser for (Opera Mini for feature phones, Opera for TV's with internet, Opera for Nintendo DS, DSi, 3DS)

I may be biased as long-time users often are, but they're definitely not comparable to the plague that is IE.

They have just a few percent of the market and they expect us to write special CSS codes just for them.

In addition I don't recall them being open source.

If they had taken on IE back in the day, it would have been something else but I just can't see why I should care today.

> They have just a few percent of the market

Like blind users are just a few percent? Or people with motor-control disabilities are just a few percent?

Yes. And no, they don't get to play the HTML5 games I make either.

"They have just a few percent of the market and they expect us to write special CSS codes just for them."

250 million users, across both desktop and mobile.

In ex-USSR desktop Opera has a marketshare of 20%+ for quite a few years.

Major websites' patchy support for Opera helps local players ;)

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