On: Google Service Drops Support for Opera

[azakai]

> While Google has the resources to support Opera, it's not financially prudent to dedicate them to support a browser that barely has any market share.

Really? How much do you think it costs to make Blogger work on Opera?

[tomjen3 → azakai]

Including testing, support, development, translation into various languages, overhead, meetings when fixes conflicts?

I would shoot at an average of 100k per feature. Plus more in the future to keep the support when they add new features.

[Karunamon → tomjen3]

Considering that Opera is religiously standards compliant, anything that renders properly on Chrome should also render properly on Opera. (Assuming Google isn't invoking some kind of undocumented chrome-specific functions we don't know about for some reason).

They can 'drop support', okay, fine, it's their choice what browsers they target. I just hope they don't start sniffing for the user agent and actively blocking it.

[jarek → tomjen3]

What would need translating for code improvements? They're forcing themselves to do more translating by showing a "not supported" message.

[azakai → tomjen3]

What do you call a "feature"? How many features does Blogger have in your definition?