Comments on: Google services that (don’t) work in the Opera browser

By: mikeloco

mikeloco — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 05:56:38 +0000

Almost Google Search works, but…
Google Video… doesn’t works! I hate that Google is Bad!

By: adas

adas — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:21:55 +0000

Script fix some Google pages:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=1819066

By: CT

CT — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 08:26:58 +0000

Google notebook doesn’t work properly! You can’t move anything.

I rely on this rather than Opera notes because I can access it from any browser, anywhere, (plus it embeds images and font styles)

By: Ben Buchanan

Ben Buchanan — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:27:54 +0000

Google are notably poor performers when it comes to building standards-compliant, cross-platform/cross-browser compatible services. It’s utterly ridiculous for a company which a) has such massive resources, and b) claims to live by a slogan of ‘do no evil’.

The relative cost for them to hire a UI/accessibility person would be trivial. The only position that I’ve heard of Google advertising was still more of a “coder who does accessibility”, which misses the point a bit.

By: Øyvind Ø

Øyvind Ø — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:19:31 +0000

With most of their services, they can just blame it on being a beta. PS: Picture should be credited Joe Hewitt and his FireBug. But I couldn't find the picture on his website right now, so uploaded it to my server.

By: pee#

pee# — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:05:08 +0000

Google Calendar IS NOT compatible with Opera.
It’s insanely slow, and buggish (just tried to create and delete an event, and all freeze).

By: dv

dv — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:59:06 +0000

Writely don’t work with opera too

By: non-troppo

non-troppo — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:09:22 +0000

big companies such as Google need to set an example with standard-compliant implementation.

Google is one of the worst offenders; their code looks like something from 1998. Even their “accessibility” service fails to validate…

If google chose to use standards-compliance and good-coding as a bigger part of page rank — you would get a huge and rapid increase in standards observance…

By: Frederik

Frederik — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:05:06 +0000

One google service that does not fully support Opera is picasaweb. The slideshow, i.e. the JavaScript enabled photo viewer, does not work - clicking on the slideshow button simply gives you a 500 Internal Server Error… I don’t know who to blame for this, but me as an end user, I hate switching browsers in order to use a website.