IanKelley - 12:32 am on Oct 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

Caine,

It's not just the fault of programmers and designers. You can write perfect, validating code and Opera will still fail to do anything with it. As mentioned, it doesn't fully support the DOM. Also, there is no workaround. The support simply isn't there.

If they were to correct these issues it would be the perfect browser. As it is, it's just another program that, after years of devolpment, hasn't got the basics down.

At least with NS/Moz there are workarounds for the bugs if you want to waste your time writing a bunch of extra code.

I'm for MS alternatives in a big way but, for the time being, there simply aren't any if you want a browser that is capable of rendering the latest versions of web standards reliably.