My OperaYahoo! ♥ Opera 9?
Friday, August 18, 2006 11:40:35 PM
Yahoo! has just promoted Opera 9 an A-grade browser -- one that they test on and aim for full support. At the same time, they've dropped Opera 8 from the list.
Graded browser support basically means that instead of "yes" or "no," they have several levels of support. A-grade browsers are those that they develop for and do full testing on. C-grade browsers are known to have problems, and are given stripped-down code. Everything else is X-grade, which is assumed to be just as capable as an A-grade browser, but they don't do any testing on it.
As an example, Firefox is A-Grade, while SeaMonkey and Camino are X-grade. The browsers should be functionally identical as far as displaying web pages is concerned (well, mostly), so testing in Firefox results in pages that also work in other Gecko browsers.
Since Opera 9 has added quite a bit of scripting and DOM support, as well as features like rich text editing, perhaps we'll soon see full support for Opera on some of the more elaborate Yahoo! services.
The one drawback is that services built for and tested on Opera 9 may not always work on older versions, which they aren't testing. But hey, Opera 9 is a free upgrade, and the system requirements haven't increased as far as I've noticed.
Graded browser support basically means that instead of "yes" or "no," they have several levels of support. A-grade browsers are those that they develop for and do full testing on. C-grade browsers are known to have problems, and are given stripped-down code. Everything else is X-grade, which is assumed to be just as capable as an A-grade browser, but they don't do any testing on it.
As an example, Firefox is A-Grade, while SeaMonkey and Camino are X-grade. The browsers should be functionally identical as far as displaying web pages is concerned (well, mostly), so testing in Firefox results in pages that also work in other Gecko browsers.
Since Opera 9 has added quite a bit of scripting and DOM support, as well as features like rich text editing, perhaps we'll soon see full support for Opera on some of the more elaborate Yahoo! services.
The one drawback is that services built for and tested on Opera 9 may not always work on older versions, which they aren't testing. But hey, Opera 9 is a free upgrade, and the system requirements haven't increased as far as I've noticed.
