Slightly ajar

It's always nice when we contact a site about issues with Opera and get a positive reply. It is especially pleasing when these are big sites that cause issues for many of our users. We've had a number of positive replies so far this month. I'd like to send out a thanks to our friends at Facebook, who fixed an issue that cropped up with the search box in their great new redesign, Flickr who removed their block on Opera for 9.2 and greater now we have fixed bugs with the Organizr (and added Opera to their upgrade notice), Microsoft for fixing xbox.com, Tiscali UK for fixing their web mail, and Google for fixing Google Calendar. Okay, I'm joking on the last one, but it'd nice to be given some love eventually. They did fix Orkut last month though.

There should be further good news coming up, with the likes of Earthlink, Scandinavian Airlines, Microsoft and Yahoo! Japan currently looking into issues we've reported to them. With the positive take up of the Internet Channel on Wii (look out for an article on Dev.opera soon on how to design for Wii) then designers have even more incentive to get sites working in Opera. I'd also like to send out a big thanks to Wiiminder and Wiicade among others, that have produced great services built around the Wii browser. Now that the full version supports TV stylesheets, sites can be optimised for the Wii, while any other TV based device (if they also support TV stylesheets) can take advantage of this. This is especially useful for sites that have a fluid layout and want to increase the font sizes to make the text more legible on low resolutions, and from further distances from the screen, such as surfing from the sofa, without relying on the zoom feature. I'm looking forward to seeing sites designing with this in mind.