BIG VOTES vs small votes

Somewhat unimportant but, why do projects under 10 posts look like this while using Opera?
posted by Memo to bugs at 3:54 PM (20 comments total)

Could it be that Opera sucks?

I'm not saying it does, I'm just asking if that could be it.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 3:56 PM on March 28

It's just CSS weirdness with the width values on that box. We'll work on it.
posted by mathowie at 4:03 PM on March 28

weird. Just did a quick update, should look better now.
posted by pb at 4:03 PM on March 28

Indeed, it does look a lot better. Thanks.
posted by Memo at 4:04 PM on March 28

This seems like as good a place as any to give a nod to this awesome site I found the other day which could be 100 years old to y'all but I'm excited to have just found it browsershots.org. You plug in your URL and select platforms and over the next 30 minutes with some distributed-computing razamatazz a bunch of strangers create screencaps and FTP them back to the site for your viewing (and debugging) pleasure. So freaking cool and did exactly what I needed for my site.

You can also view the queue which is interesting in its own right.
posted by loiseau at 4:07 PM on March 28 [2 favorites]

Memo to Metafilter: YOUR BOX WIDTH VALUES SUCK
posted by dersins at 4:44 PM on March 28

Oh, I forgot, i set my Opera settings to look like IE to most webpages, that might help. Totally worth it, imho. Also I didn't mean to indirectly insinuate that Matt H. wasn't coding for Opera, just that generally it seems a bit like a forgotten half-sister, no offense!
posted by DenOfSizer at 4:48 PM on March 28

just that generally it seems a bit like a forgotten half-sister

To be fair, it has 1% of the browser market for non-mobile browsers. On the other hand it's got the fourth largest market share. On the other other hand, that's like having the fourth largest air force.
posted by jessamyn at 5:09 PM on March 28 [4 favorites]

Opera rocks, dude. Have you ever just stuck your finger on the zero key with opera? Try it sometime. LOVE the zoom page. Love the Speed Dial. People just don't understand Opera, and forget to code for it appropriately, is all.

Totally agreed. I wish more people would try it out. It's by far my favorite browser and I used to be convinced that nothing could separate me from Firefox.
posted by LeeJay at 5:12 PM on March 28

To be fair, it has 1% of the browser market for non-mobile browsers. On the other hand it's got the fourth largest market share. On the other other hand, that's like having the fourth largest air force.

Unless my math is bad, that's three hands. What sort of freak are you, and how do I get an extra hand?
posted by blue_beetle at 8:04 PM on March 28

Give that man a hand!
posted by fantabulous timewaster at 11:20 PM on March 28

People just don't understand Opera, and forget to code for it appropriately, is all.

The idea of having web standards is that you don't have to go around adding if/thens and browser hacks to get the page to look right in any specific browser (whether by a huge corporation or anyone else).

Though, to be fair, it's entirely possible you're seeing HTML or CSS written for a broken browser with a huge market share.
posted by johnofjack at 5:05 AM on March 29

and how do I get an extra hand?

You have to get someone else to cut theirs off.
posted by cortex at 7:24 AM on March 29 [1 favorite]

Opera for the PC is probably always going to be an idiosyncratic third-stream option for the holdouts for whom, if Opera wasn't an option, would be using Konqueror or iCab.

For non-PC platforms -- game consoles and mobile devices -- Opera is doing very well. And that's the real growth market. Especially since IE for Mobile is such a crippled bodge and Safari is constrained to the iPhone.
posted by ardgedee at 7:56 AM on March 29

Hmm. Just noticed something. On Firefox 2.0.0.12 on FreeBSD, projects with more than a few votes causes the usernames to run into the comment box, like this.
posted by krinklyfig at 12:27 PM on March 29

If we're talking layout bugs, Recent Activity looks like ass on IE7 /ducks
posted by bonaldi at 1:48 PM on March 29

Can Opera work transparently with del.icio.us like Firefox can/does? If not, deal breaker.
posted by ctmf at 4:04 PM on March 29

I just realized that when I vote for a project the ajaxy'd refresh screws up the formatting in the same manner as I posted originally.
posted by Memo at 9:14 PM on March 30

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