“Adobe is not alone… Google also does this with the exception that they do go the extra step and make sure their favourite browser, Firefox, was also coded for, but leaving Opera and other browsers with malfunctioning and broken pages, that are often fixed with a single line of UserJS(Greasemonkey)code that amature and proffesional coders pop out in under 15 minutes of figuring out what is wrong with the page.”

have you ever checked what kind of fixes are there in userJS files? it is 50/50 for google and opera bugs. opera is to blame also, fascinating fact is, that google fixes their problems sooner or later, opera still hasnt got ‘oncontextmenu’ support, so you CANT set directions on google maps. it is opera deliberate decision NOT TO support this event breaks more than one major page (all that use right click)

“”As for the GameTrailers page I have read that it is caused by custom Ajax code added to the webpage for the player that malfunctions when Opera tries to run it like IE because that is what the page was coded for.”"

any link for that? gametrailers for what ive checked is very neatly written page and i cant believe that they did something as brutal as not forked a code for IE and others..

Coders who have broken the terms of use and have hacked on Flash and Shockwave have often found that the fixes take minutes to write and implement and almost always are caused by Adobe breaking their own standards or the webs so IE and certain modified versions of it work by coding for the breaking in standards and quirks in the IE code, which they then modify to work with all the other browser engines.

Opera makes their browser by the rules, and then codes for all the tweaks that break the rules in other browsers, as Firefox does to an extent.

Adobe is not alone… Google also does this with the exception that they do go the extra step and make sure their favourite browser, Firefox, was also coded for, but leaving Opera and other browsers with malfunctioning and broken pages, that are often fixed with a single line of UserJS(Greasemonkey)code that amature and proffesional coders pop out in under 15 minutes of figuring out what is wrong with the page.

As for the GameTrailers page I have read that it is caused by custom Ajax code added to the webpage for the player that malfunctions when Opera tries to run it like IE because that is what the page was coded for.

place where opera really fails is youtube embeds. most of them wont play, saying ‘sorry, that video is unavailable’. yet you launch the same page in any other browser – and bang, it works.. that is also adobe’ fault?

– wmv downloads in opera often do not work, while the same file is downloadable with firefox
– full page zoom does not work with their flash/video player, again works ok in firefox

there are several minor youtube issues in opera as well