Opera gets proactive and helps you fix your code
Date : 2008 06 26 Category : Tech & Development
AjaxianOpera is being very pro-active and have been hiring folk to give compliance feedback for sites that aren't working well on Opera.
Nik Cubrilovic covered this on the new TechCrunch IT blog:
Opera Software is building a team of “web evangelists” whose job it is to find sites that do not display correctly in Opera and are not standards-compliant, and then email the site owners. They are sending emails with specific tips on how to fix HTML, CSS or other issues that don’t make sites compliant. Opera has always been a strong advocate for web standards, and this initiative is good for not only Opera but standards support on the web in general.
On the Opera jobs website, there are job listings for multiple web evangelist positions. They are hiring in Norway, China, South Korea, the Czech Republic and the USA - so it is a multi-lingual global effort.
How would you take the advice? An email like this:
Hello from Opera Software,
We have recently come to know that [retracted] is not displaying
properly in Opera. It stems from an Opera bug which we plan have resolved and should be out with the next release. However, till that time, it would be nice if you could tweak the site on your end to make it work with Opera.
Just add “overflow-y:visible;” to the “Body” of the web page in the CSS file. Or you can just put
PLAIN TEXT CSS:body { overflow-y:visible; }
In the <style> section of the pages, and it should make the pages display with Opera perfectly. If you have any more questions, please feel free to contact us.
If it was for general standards as well as Opera specific comments, then I would be quite happy :)