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When I do web development, I test in Opera at the very end after I have fixed all issues in IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari and guess what?

I never had to make one tweak for Opera. Ever. Opera has almost a religious focus on coding to standards. While I bet there are specific issues with implementation, whatever happened to the concept of coding to the standard and let browsers do their work?

Do Blogger features really need HTML5 WebGL 2.0 or something? I can understand some layout issues and willing to excuse them, but to not support them functionality wise is really sad, especially when you're the biggest web property on the internet. This is a throwback to the days of "Best works in IE(TM)".

To add insult to injury, I sometimes get messages like "Need a faster browser, Get Chrome" on Gmail.

> This is a throwback to the days of "Best works in IE(TM)".

Exactly, it seems that a whole new generation of web developers have forgotten history.

Is sad that when we thought we had left behind those awful times, and that we had learned the lesson, we have Google kicking us back to the dark ages of the web.

If standards are worth anything, all browsers that follow them should be supported equally.

The c't had a good opening "story" about this a couple months back. I, for one, will keep using firefox even if chrome is tempting, because I haven't forgotten what happened the last time someone got a monopoly on the browser market: The stiflement of web evolution for a decade.

And make no mistake, IE6 was revolutionary at it's time too.

Google is abusing it's monopoly on search and other things to convert people to chrome. Good, in many ways (if you visit google with an old IE, it displays a chrome ad). But now that I think about it, I'd rather have to bear IE for a year or two than give google the power over what becomes part of the web and what doesn't. Anyone remember flash?

Hmm. Opera didn't support CSS 3D Transforms last time I checked. Maybe that's changed, but it's disappointing nonetheless.

Why would something like the administration pages for Google Blogger need CSS 3D transforms?

They wouldn't, this is a personal gripe.

(although I guess they might use it for transitions?)

Nah, just the low market share.

And personal gripe.

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