bah blah blah.. mr obvious, what matters for users is that it does not work, period
no matter how opera tries and tries (and cries) it is not enough. they are paying for their stupid and stubborn past decisions to prioritize some stuff (not used by anyone else) over other (stuff like full implementation of XHR or some css stuff, that all other browsers included, excluding opera ofc). result is – noone cares about opera. live with it.
hallvors and his men are fighting a lost battle – few against the entire internet. they will not win, mostly because it seems that no major website gives a damn to just test against opera. facebok? yahoo? twitter? google? ms? amazon? NOTHING really works well in opera now – just compare the functionalities in all browsers and tell me that these are the same. for users it is opera’ fault
so live with it
and btw – only a complete fool can write ‘if a page is written to a standard, then it will work’. go and read html4.1 ‘standard’ spec and tell me how it is possible that two browsers can have a complete different implementation and still be ‘standard compliant’ – date JS object is a perfect example for ‘simpletons’. same goes for default settings and values – also, a) unspecified by spec b) different across the browsers.
or rather, similar in all browsers except opera.
current web standard is a fallacy for uneducated. html5 might change that, as it is a well-written (compared to html4) but it will take years for html5 to replace html4 websites.