I don't mean to say Opera is useless by any means but: Michael said
2. Testing every browser is simply cost prohibitive. This is a good point as why spend all that time trying to get it working in Opera when the market share is so low. I read interestingly this week that the Google Calendar Beta is out and Google even mentioned "At the moment, the calendar works best with Microsoft's Internet Explorer & Firefox" If Google haven't got the time to get it to work with Opera, then should the rest of us start implementing hacks to get it working? Its bad enough getting SVG apps working in IE/ Firefox ? Safari. Richard Michael Bierman wrote: > > > > > _____ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Andreas Neumann > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 5:51 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [svg-developers] Re: An SVG Tutorial > > > > * My theory is that no one uses it in the real world, Ive never come > >> across a client that has asked whether our software works in >> Opera.........I just hope Opera doesnt go out to the masses if Google / >> Microsoft buy it...(rumours) >> > > thats crap. How do you explain that within a short time ten million > people downloaded opera? Also in many european sites it has at least > the share of Apples Safari. Maybe between 1 and 8 percent, depending > on the audience. The US was always more MS centric. > > Why should a client ask that a certain web-application runs in browser > x or y? Shouldn't he ask that it runs in any browser and that the > webapp should stick to W3C standards? If I'd by a webapp from a vendor > I would certainly expect that it works in any of the modern browsers. > > Andreas > > > > * MB> In an ideal world, All browsers would be fully standards > compliant and content would work equally well in all browsers. Although all > browsers have made remarkable progress in that direction, unfortunately that > still isn't always the case today. When a client, Product Manager, etc. > specifies which browsers an application should work in there are probably > two reasons: > > * 1. Market share of the browser. (Opera probably has about 1% or less > as best I can tell). > > * 2. Testing every browser is simply cost prohibitive. > > In terms of Opera downloads, that does not necessarily translate to Opera > *users*. I have downloaded Opera on 6 machines, but I hardly ever use it. > I have it for testing purposes and for comparing browser features only. > Likewise, I have IE on every machine I have, but I only use it when a site > forces me to, or it is broken in FF which is rare now a days. > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ----- > To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -or- > visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my > membership" > ---- > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > -- Richard K Gnyla eventex solutions tel . 01905 758 745 mob.07801 365 146 www.eventex.co.uk *********************************************************************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and contain privileged or copyright information. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy, change, distribute or use this email or the information contained in it for any purpose other than to notify us. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately, and delete this email from your system. We do not guarantee that this material is free from viruses or any other defects although due care has been taken to minimise the risk. *********************************************************************************************************************** ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
