That's a bummer, because this defeats the anywhere/anytime nature of Udacity's system if I can't log in an do a quick lesson during a free lunch hour.
Both Apple and Google have a disincentive to improving WebViews.
If both were JUST as apt as the platform's respective browsers, html5 apps would be SO much better.
The only place I see it ever take off is for indie games or small prototypes to gain a distributor contract.
Ex: the CS-101 is building a search engine from scratch.
> Expected 30 to be greater than 32.25806451612903.
They need to clarify the erroneous function call. (I was calling setInterval with 30ms instead of 1000/30)
Given that you will always have to deal with service providers not supporting your browser, why do you choose to continue using it?
Usually there is an idealogical reason for this sort of stance, but Opera isn't FOSS, and that's the only reason I can think of that someone would choose to put up with an inferior software experience.
Why not switch to Chrome or Firefox?
In the end, though, compatibilty issues led me to another browser. I miss much of the functionality, but browser support trumps that.
Opera is to browsers what vim is to text editors. Great if you know how to use it properly, but horrible in some very real and recurring situations.
Opera: General browsing/research with dozens of tabs. It's so stable you can have it run for several days and don't need to worry about performance, everything runs smoothly, always. When it comes to stability, Opera is the Debian of browsers. ;) Also it has the easiest/best implementation of incognito mode. There are many other reason, but it's best to try it out for yourself. Not just one day or two, but several months.
FF: For development, debugging, testing and some other stuff. I prefer to use it for some darker corners of the web and websites I don't trust, as No-Script is the most advanced script blocker available.
Chromium (in specific Comodo Dragon): Almost the same as FF, but in addition I have to use it to keep track of all the cutting-edge HTML5 stuff. Sad story behind this is that many web-developers don't care about standards and only test there sites with FF/Chromium.
I like them all, I'm not an ideologist, every tool has its purpose. But Opera suits my needs the most.
What I don't like are ignorant web developers!
Chrome isn't either, unless one is referring to Chromium and the differences between the two are more than just name[1]. Many power users like native support of some features opera has that other browser need extensions (with limitations) to have something similar. Pushing a particular browser on others is also just silly when we're all using modern browsers that make it easy to support compared to the crap we went through to work around ie6 and ie7 in the past.
[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoo...
Anyway: Coursera classes often use premises like this to motivate teaching some specific set of technical skills which are the real point.
Every time I see a "your broser is not supported" message I'm getting more angry. As a developer it's your job to make things work!
Yes, I'm using Opera and yes Opera only supports the standard. But common I checked it in other browsers and I can't see what's so special about the site that a "modern" browser is needed.
