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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.
oh my god, a website used the word "ass"! Someone quick call the FCC, we gotta censor this disgusting abuse of free speech! Oh the horrors, that some young mind might be exposed to the word "ass".
And now we return you to your regularly scheduled graphic violence - just make sure no one says a four letter word or shows a titty.
Some wanker with too much time on his hands snivels because a website won't support his fave browser, and this is news? /. is clearly getting desperate for material....
Question: is the major browser - IE- supported? - Yes! Fine, then if you are using some minor broser like FF, Opera or Safari - either install major browser (I have IE7 just for these cases), or keep yourself away from that site. It is so simple. Nobody should babycare you.