On Opera, On Mac, On inluminent
Published 5 years, 8 months ago in design + dev, macintosh
On Monday, I downloaded the latest version of Opera for Mac so that I could test some of the problems that people have reported with the new “images: on/off” option that I’m offering on inluminent/weblog. Then I read this article on C|Net.
It basically says that Opera might be dead on the Macintosh due to the release of Safari.
The question for me now becomes… do I really care about ‘fixing’ a problem on my site that only really affects Opera for Mac users?
On one hand, I’d love to figure out how to make the CSS switching Javascript work in Opera browsers. On the other hand, only about 0.74%% of my readers use Opera on Windows or Macintosh. Only 2% of those users use Opera on a Macintosh. That’s an amazingly small number.
Is it worth my time to fix a Javascript problem with Opera, or can I count on Opera to either fix it, or quit developing a Mac browser?
Honestly at this point I don’t have the time to worry about Opera browser support on top of my regular work life… sorry folks. Use IE, Mozilla, or wait on Safari to come out of beta to get the “images: on/off” feature.
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I see nipples! I am offended! I am kidding!
One more desired feature for the pictures: captions.
the problem is also true for netscape 7.1 (as far as i can see). it only seems to work right in ie. finally a good reason to start msie once in a while.
Since the CSS should work either way, have you considered using a server-side scripting language like PHP? I tested an image-free version of my own site that I could turn on using a GET query:
http://www.practicalmadness.com/?image_pref=none
I didn’t do any work to make it look good because it was just a test to see if I could do it. But you could easily set up a PHP (or whatever kind of) script to set an images/no-images cookie pref, which should be 100% cross-platform compatible.