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Re:Google Design by FreakyT on Thursday May 28, 2015 @03:42PM (#9620633)
Opera basically is dead though, so I don't think one can reasonably expect new websites to test for it.

Now, if it didn't work in Firefox or IE11, then that would be significantly more questionable.

Edit: I'm assuming we're talking about classic Opera, not the Chromium build that is currently called Opera but is actually Chromium.

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Re:Google Design by jfuhrman on Thursday May 28, 2015 @03:47PM (#9620659)
That's exactly what people said with their "Designed for IE" websites back during 2000 to 2004.

Whatever happened to coding according to web standards? This isn't a small boutique shop that cannot afford testing, this is a huge multinational company.

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Re:Google Design by FreakyT on Thursday May 28, 2015 @03:52PM (#9620699)
> That's exactly what people said with their "Designed for IE" websites back during 2000 to 2004.

Hardly. Mozilla/Gecko may have been obscure at the time, but it was under active development. Opera is very definitely dead.

> Whatever happened to coding according to web standards?

So by "web standards" do you mean "older web standards supported by an outdated browser"?

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Re:Google Design by jfuhrman on Thursday May 28, 2015 @04:26PM (#9620930)
>Hardly. Mozilla/Gecko may have been obscure at the time, but it was under active development. O

Firefox had about 3% share at the end of 2004, even less before that.

>Opera is very definitely dead

Huh what? Opera is still under active development.

http://blogs.opera.com/desktop/

>So by "web standards" do you mean "older web standards supported by an outdated browser"?

No, I mean current web standards.

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Re:Google Design by FreakyT on Thursday May 28, 2015 @04:59PM (#9621139)
Yes, but that is based on Chromium, so it really isn't Opera. I assumed you meant "classic" Opera, since I would assume that the Chromium-based product would render sites equivalently to Chromium.
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Re:Google Design by Aldo_MX on Thursday May 28, 2015 @06:07PM (#9621492)
Opera is not dead; Presto is dead.
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Re:Google Design by DanBC on Thursday May 28, 2015 @05:44PM (#9621378)
This is not an app, it's a web site. There's no reason for it to not work in web browsers - even obscure browsers like lynx.

And this website reliably crashes Google's own Chrome[1] on iOS on an iPhone 4s. It's fucking stupid that we've gone so far backwards with web design.

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Re:Google Design by xixixao on Thursday May 28, 2015 @04:14PM (#9620858)
The layout is pretty broken in Firefox.
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Re:Google Design by nightpool on Thursday May 28, 2015 @05:08PM (#9621194)
Which part? Seems laggy but fine for me in Firefox 38 (stable)
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Re:Google Design by xixixao on Thursday May 28, 2015 @05:36PM (#9621340)
In "Schedule" look at Filters on the right.
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