Monday, 28. September 2009, 02:06:44
wave, chrome, opera
Robert Nyman and
Lars Gunther also seem puzzled about the
omission of Opera from the Google Wave browser list.
Any product managers from the
Google Wave or
Chrome team want to clue everyone in? (Cue
"Jeopardy" music now.)
Sunday, 27. September 2009, 20:16:43
chrome, opera, wave
I noticed the interesting release about Google Chrome Frame plug-in for IE. Very sneaky and really clever. I'm eager to try out
Google Wave when it debuts, but did anyone else notice the browser-choice pop-up when an IE user points to Google Wave...?
What's wrong with this picture?
Opera isn't listed as a super-fast, standards-based, easy-to-code-for, advanced browser in the browser-choice pop-up... Lame. (It's not as if the inventor of CSS,
Håkon Wium Lie, works at Opera...
oh, wait, he does.) This used to be a
problem with another huge company in the past.
While all's fair in love & war, web interoperability is critically important to browser users (
whether they know it or not), web developer ease,
browser-maker sanity, and ensuring the
beneficial, not detrimental, network effects of the Internet as a whole.
Meanwhile, a
Google spokesperson replied to The Register saying:
"While we encourage users to use a more modern and standards compliant browser such as Firefox, Safari, OPERA or Google Chrome rather than a plug-in, for those who don't, Google Chrome Frame is designed to provide better performance, strong security features, and more choice to both developers and users, across all versions of Internet Explorer."
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