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Opera Claims Microsoft Has Poor Interoperability

Posted by Zonk on from the tit-for-tat dept.

Noksagt writes "Opera CTO Hakon Lie has countered the claims that Bill Gates made regarding Microsoft's superior interoperability last week. He points out their invalid webpages, MS's unwillingness to serve the same content to different browsers, IE's poor CSS support, tardy documentation and limitations of their XML format, and more." From the article: "You say you believe in interoperability. Why then, did you terminate the Web Core Fonts initiative you started in 1996? You deserve credit for starting it, but why close down a project which could have given you yet much good will? (Verdana sucks, but Georgia is beautiful!)"

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  1. I have to see this one! by bigtallmofo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not much into the fine arts, but someone's written an opera about Microsoft's poor interoperability?!

    I can't wait to hear the fat lady sing in this one!

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    I'm a big tall mofo.
    1. Re:I have to see this one! by Sabathius · · Score: 5, Funny


      The "fat lady is hoarse form singing, my friend.

    2. Re:I have to see this one! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Strange, I only knew there was this song...

      What a Microsoft World

      Don't know much about my CPU,
      Don't know what a DIMM's supposed to do,
      Don't know what a hard disk is for,
      Don't know how to overclock my core;
      But I do know that Microsoft rules,
      'cuz that's what they taught us all in school,
      Oh, What a Microsoft world it must be.

      Don't know why my screen is always blue,
      Don't know what these damn exceptions do,
      Don't know why my modem runs so slow,
      What it's sending out I just don't know;
      But I do know what the salesman said,
      Once I save enough to finally upgrade,
      What a wonderful world it will be.

      What would the BOFH do?

    3. Re:I have to see this one! by magic_finale · · Score: 3, Funny

      sorry can't help it :P Ballmer: Bill, i've got a good news and a bad news.. Bill: what's it? Ballmer: Opera just bitched about our poor interoperability on slashdot... Bill: ... what's the good news? Ballmer: i just saved money on my car insurance...

    4. Re:I have to see this one! by Xeo+024 · · Score: 5, Funny
      I can't wait to hear the fat lady sing in this one!
      If by fat lady you mean Steve Ballmer, then I can't wait either.
  2. Re:I'm tired of Microsoft bashing by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Let's PRAISE Microsoft instead."

    I'm so glad Microsoft brought Opera to my attention! Go Microsoft!!

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    "Derp de derp."
  3. He points out their invalid webpages(; by rollx · · Score: 3, Funny

    try to validate the www.msn.co.il (it's the israeli portal),
    ... and... you'll get 1338 errors (on 1 page!!!)
    I think it tells a lot about this 1337 (+1) company

  4. Interoperable.. by TheCeltic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Supports Windows NT/XP/2K/Pocket PC. Now that's interoperability! NOT!

    It's like C# being multiplatform... multiple windows platforms...

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  5. Fonts! by kuzb · · Score: 4, Funny
    Verdana sucks, but Georgia is beautiful!

    Remind me not to hire you to design a website

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    BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.