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Boston Globe to Blogger — "Stop Using Opera"
PetManimal writes "Mac Daniels of the Boston Globe weighed in on a prickly debate involving the updated local mass transit website. The Globe's advice to one complainer named 'derspatchel': Stop using Opera. Derspatchel's response is to go medieval on Daniels' ass, and ask the question: Why should Opera users give up their browser? Quoting: 'I don't give two whoops about the "percentage of the Internet population" or whatever. I don't care if a website works on someone else's choice of browser; I care if it works or not on my choice of browser. It's a modern browser, it's in active development, and it's free. Once dev stops on the Opera browser and the last version becomes outdated and unable to support newer Web innovations, then I'll "stop using it." How's that, Chuckles?'" After a day the transit authority took the new site offline to "improve performance," reverting to the old version.
First of all, yes, stop using Opera, and dude, you shouldn't have warned this guy. Anyone making such a fucking big deal about a transit site not working with his browser of choice needs to find a better way to spend his time. Perhaps a hobby that doesn't involve annoying people could help him. Also, why did this get put on slashdot? its really not worthy of any news coverage at all, let alone slashdot.
Yes, make a stand against the big bad world with your browser choices! Congratulations! I am so happy you are making a stand against evil websites that only let you use a few browsers. And by the way, the sites that I run into that won't let me use Firefox, are usually really important ones that I can't just not visit, like something for college admissions, but like I said, I rarely have any problems with Firefox, maybe its because Firefox kicks ass? Maybe, maybe (whoever gets this reference gets twenty points on the coolness scale!) I can't believe I am even bothering you ridicule you for caring so much, maybe its because I haven't slept in quite a while, I don't know.