2012/11/21 James Forrester jforrester@wikimedia.org:
I dunno, perhaps I'm just biased because none of the browsers I use even made the list, but different browsers can support different hardware very differently...
Indeed. Which browsers would you like to see added?
I'm going to assume Isarra was talking about Opera, since it's the only good and at least slightly popular one that was left out. (It's also probably the least resource-intensive one for old computers.)
I'm a Opera user myself and I love it. I can't really offer fixing *all* the bugs on the MediaWiki–Opera border due to my limited time, but I'd like to ask to be CC'd on them :) In my experience, most of "Opera bugs" has been sloppy JS coding that just happened to work in other browsers, although it does have its own share of troubles. Still, I see no reason for making it a second-class citizen – if there is actually one, I'd greatly appreciate links to any writeups on the topic :)
(An example of the sloppy coding: removing all options in a <select> box on focus and repopulating it. Works on Firefox and Chrome, doesn't work on Opera, as the emptied <select> loses the focus, rendering the items unselectable. This is present in the wikEd gadget, I didn't have time nor incentive to report and fix it yet, especially since it blocks Opera entirely by default...)
-- Matma Rex