Some websites just don’t make it easy if you aren’t using the popular web browsers. In this day of Web 2.0 where web designers make things easier in some ways they also go back to the problem of designed for browser x. The latest issue I had was trying to log into Blogger with Opera on my Mac and instead of logging in it incorrectly stated that I didn’t have cookies turned on. Searching a bit it seems that I’m not the only one who has encountered this. Blogger isn’t the only Google site that I’ve had problems with. GMail has a problem, though, not quite as serious where if I login using the GMail login page it won’t go to the inbox. However, in this case it is a matter that it isn’t redirecting properly as it works if I type in the URL and I can also access it by logging into Google Homepage.
There is a big push in the web design community that web designers use accepted (X)HTML standards. I think it is also important that other aspects of web design don’t break in web browsers. Its frustrating when one is using a program like Opera, which I now prefer for my browsing and is as advanced as IE or Firefox. If Web 2.0 turns out meaning Designed for IE or Designed for Firefox then we haven’t learned anything from the 90′s when it was Designed for Netscape.
