To be clear, we aren't running some idealistic enterprise where we value standards compliance over real world usefulness. Indeed Opera has historically been more willing to implement IE quirks than other browsers, a policy that has recently come to cause problems because some sites punt us down an legacy-IE-only codepath that we don't work with, rather than a standards codepath that would work fine.
Our sitepatching is specifically designed to solve problems in real time rather than needing the site owner to make any changes, or for the user to upgrade their Opera.
Did you report a bug on Opera for the site that you were having difficulty with? Often half the battle is knowing that there is a problem, and having good steps to reproduce. With those things we likely could investigate whether we have a bug that needs to be fixed or whether the site is treating us differently to Gecko/WebKit for some reason, and come up with a solution.
Our sitepatching is specifically designed to solve problems in real time rather than needing the site owner to make any changes, or for the user to upgrade their Opera.
Did you report a bug on Opera for the site that you were having difficulty with? Often half the battle is knowing that there is a problem, and having good steps to reproduce. With those things we likely could investigate whether we have a bug that needs to be fixed or whether the site is treating us differently to Gecko/WebKit for some reason, and come up with a solution.