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Good news, Everyone!

By Cosimo Streppone. Tuesday, 1. April 2008, 06:51:27

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the opera bunch

We're ready to announce one of the biggest changes to our community since its launch in 2001. We are really committed to our work, and there's nothing greater to see new members joining or existing ones logging in! :up:

But... There's a catch to it all. As most of you know, developing Web sites today is time-consuming, and in order to maintain My Opera we're forced to think of all different kinds of contexts when we create something new (or fix something old). So, Nicolas, Edoardo, Esteban, and I (together with front-end guys Fred and the new kid in town, Tristan) have decided that it only makes sense to continue development exclusively for Microsoft IE6 (according to our stats, the majority of our users are IE-followers).

Yeah, yeah, we know... We are the Opera community, but, boo-hoo-on-you!

There's simply too much work to support all those browsers along with their interpretation of "standards".

We can safely announce that starting today, a new era will arise.

If you think this is good, then help us digg it!

MyOpera scheduled downtime for upgradeStress testing tools for MyOpera

Comments

Sarah 1. April 2008, 12:36

I love my avatar!! I am keepin this mug.

:D :love:

lamarca 1. April 2008, 12:53

nice one :lol:

Varish 1. April 2008, 12:55

p:

VJ 1. April 2008, 13:09

U Opera people really are into April 1, hey? :wink:

VJ 1. April 2008, 13:10

God, my what happened to this avatar's right eye?!!!

Keith 1. April 2008, 13:27

But Microsoft IE6 wont run on my IBM PS2 windows 3.1... now what will I do? OTFLMAO rip

David Scott Aubrey 1. April 2008, 13:46

What's wrong with the Opera team? Surely they meant they're going to work on Netscape :devil: :lol: :wink:

GeekK 1. April 2008, 14:04

IE6 FTW! :D

Tad 1. April 2008, 14:09

:no: monkey :furious: :down:

1174906lby 1. April 2008, 14:15

time travel is always nice - enjoy the ride :whistle:

Robbie 1. April 2008, 14:39

haha, genius. Good imagination.

How do I get a giraffe or flamingo avatar, theyre much better

lamarca 1. April 2008, 15:00

Originally posted by moirob:


How do I get a giraffe or flamingo avatar, theyre much better





http://my.opera.com/community/blog/show.dml/1861616?startidx=50#comment5006540

Scott Paxton 1. April 2008, 15:12

Happy April Fool's Day Everyone.

andish182 1. April 2008, 17:24

:o:

Mick-E 1. April 2008, 17:25

Originally posted by cstrep:

Good news, Everyone!


Are we sure it wasn't Prof. Farnsworth? p:

Greg 1. April 2008, 17:42

Well, it sounds perfectly logical to me. :wink:

Violeta Rosales 1. April 2008, 19:22

Yeah, you guys are so right!
For now on, i wont use .png (cuz i have to think of IE 6 users) with alfa, and my css will be made for IE starting with: html {} :headbang: YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!!,

We <3 Micro$oft IE!!

...:lol:

selurus 1. April 2008, 19:29

Happy April Fools Day

Alexei 1. April 2008, 19:33

My new avatar is awesome :lol:

BLOBBY 1. April 2008, 19:35

stupided avatars i need my cheese cake avatar

Lyn 1. April 2008, 19:37

Originally posted by wildtazzmaa:

If this an April fool's Day Joke; It surely is a good one, if not "I want my avatar back." I look like a defective platapus, and I don't want to be like this :cry: ME

BLOBBY 1. April 2008, 19:38

lol same

Lyn 1. April 2008, 19:39

Originally posted by wildtazzmaa:

If this an April fool's Day Joke; It surely is a good one, if not "I want my avatar back." I look like a defective platapus, and I don't want to be like this :cry: ME

rezadotcom 1. April 2008, 19:43

:yes:

Esteban F. Pérez 1. April 2008, 20:31

Bring back my avatar!
Bring back my avatar!
Bring back my avatar!
Bring back my avatar!
Bring back my avatar!
Bring back my avatar!
\m/

Cosimo Streppone 1. April 2008, 20:42

An automagic trick is supposed to make all these funny animal avatars vanish tonight at 00:00 UTC. Let's see if it works... :lol:

... and who will be the first to post with a "fixed" avatar... :lol:

Robert Hurley 1. April 2008, 20:46


*ahem*

SCREW IE users! Wasn't Opera Community originally a forum for promoting use of the Opera browser???

*whew...*

...I feel much better now...

D'n Russler 1. April 2008, 21:30

Wait... will it run under CP/M??? :yikes:

when is that version coming out? AND... will in-line search work???:no:

Øyvind Østlund 1. April 2008, 22:02

Originally posted by cstrep:

... and who ... and who will be the first to post with a "fixed" avatar...




I thought it would have been me, but your servers are not GMT+1 : /

- ØØ -

Robert Hurley 1. April 2008, 23:04

(sheepishly)

I forgot. April 1st. (still... midnight, Oslo time, cannot come soon enough)

Øyvind Østlund 1. April 2008, 23:10

Ohh, something must have gone wrong. You are still a frog :D You need a princess p:


- ØØ -

Joe Cover 1. April 2008, 23:48

Well, after reinstalling my avatar three times I finally looked at the date :lol: :lol: :lol:

Joe

slackwrdave 2. April 2008, 00:58

How many times does my heart have to jump up into my throat today? I've never seen a more obsessive approach to April 1st!

Good golly!

Christopher DaSilva 2. April 2008, 01:53

Haha, I almost fall for it!

Shane 2. April 2008, 06:14

I almost wet meself until I remembered it was a fool's day. But after yesterdays follies of whatever could go wrong did go wrong, this could have just sealed the worst day ever in my computing dealings....
Question: Why set a standard if the intent is to deter from it? Silly M$, Opera is for us kids.... ~~~Cheers~~~

Ken 2. April 2008, 07:17

Oh dang it; I just upgraded to IE7

gosh! 2. April 2008, 08:44

i'll help you to "digg it"...haha^^.

William 2. April 2008, 17:46

THAT totally sucks.:cry:
Some of us have become addicted to OPera Browser.
NOT FAIR.:furious: :down:

William 2. April 2008, 17:49

Damn fell for it.Homer: Doh!
Need to start using the calender:lol:

Robert Hurley 2. April 2008, 19:50

This seems like an awful elaborate ruse to be used for an April Fool's joke. Is the Opera Development team trying to test out new functionalities for Opera Community? And, if so, what are they?

lokutus_prime 2. April 2008, 23:03

phewwww... as a macbook user (unix rools!) I read your announcment and then had a 'strange out-of-body-feeling', for a fraction of a picosecond, that you were serious :faint: - I mean, c'mon guys - IE! ....the browser with so many security (and other) patches it thinks it's the star in a broadway show called "Hobo's R Us" :D
I'm just glad you weren't being serious :left:

Phạm Lâm 3. April 2008, 02:48

PNG is not transparent in IE6. Can My Opera fix this bug?

One solution:
http://stylizedweb.com/2007/12/30/png-transparency-issues/

rea's community 3. April 2008, 06:47

:lol: cheetah ?

Andrew 3. April 2008, 09:19

So the gossip is true, Microsoft buys Opera. I heard it the other day but I couldn't believe it. Or is this all an April 1st joke. :-)

johnnysaucepn 3. April 2008, 09:36

Microsoft bought Opera six years ago. They just haven't told anyone about it. That switch in IE8 between IE7-mode and IE8-mode? It's actually between Trident and Presto.

It's true - a shifty man in the supermarket told me.

Alexei 3. April 2008, 15:22

@johnnysaucepn: :lol:

Cσησя Mμяρнỵ 3. April 2008, 19:31

Ive got aproblem can any admin help me out?im trying to make a shoe from letters and symbols on my keyboard but when i post it just goes to next letter/symbol why is this?

PATRICE 8. April 2008, 21:46

you are right will opera community must be accessible share ie6 or 7 and some another navigators! will opera is international! thus navigators and Net surfers too! good work. :idea:

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