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.

Comments

Re:Wow

[Loadmaster]

God damn it! I keep hitting that stupid "Post Anonymously" button thinking it's the "No Karma Bonus." Ok, folks, go medieval (slashdot style) on me for the fuckup.

Swi

Re:Get a life

[anagama]

Someone with mod points should untroll this guy. How is stating the obvious truth troll-worthy? Opera is not free software as the term is used when speaking about the "free software community". Opera "is proprietary software and closed source." Citation. It might be no-cost software, but it certainly isn't free.