On the ASP.NET Forums site there is an interesting thread discussing support for Opera in Microsoft’s upcoming Ajax framework Atlas. According to Microsoft’s Atlas Technical Evangelist Steve Marx, requests for Opera support are way behind for those of IE, Firefox and Safari. What this means is that Microsoft doesn’t currently have plans to support Opera.
Exactly four months ago, during the DevDays 06 here in Helsinki, Scott Guthrie told us, “Atlas will have full support for Opera by the end of this year“. I posted a question on the ASP.NET forum, requesting an update on the issue.
For me, lack of Opera support is not a big deal - at least, not anymore. Opera used to be my primary browser, but I have now switched over to Firefox because certain services (e.g. Backpack that we used for collaboration) and development architectures (ASP.NET and thus, Atlas) do not support Opera.
This is getting very confusing, because at the same time as Opera claims to have (at least one of the) best support for web standards, on the other hand it seems to be the worst performing Ajax browser on the market.
October 23rd, 2006 at 10.56
As you probably already noticed: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/10/20/ASP.NET-AJAX-Beta-1-Released.aspx
Atlas will have Opera support in RC.
Cheers,
Teemu