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Too Stupid for Words 0

A gentleman recently posted to the Opera newsgroup, opera.general, about a webpage that didn’t work.

A little later, he posted this (emphasis added):

Just received the following from the developer of the site mentioned above:

– – The problem with Opera is that it is SO standards compliant that it does not implement the extensions that FF (Firefox–ed.) and IE do. As a result, a number of JavaScript functions in the dictionaries do not work. – –

The problem is that Opera is too “standards compliant.” Too “Standards Compliant.” TOO “STANDARDS COMPLIANT.”

Give me a break.

There’s a reason standards are there.

That’s so persons will comply with them, so that, when they comply with the standards, stuff bleepin’ works.

Words fail me.

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