fearphage commented on 2009-02-25 @ 14:58
Any reason Opera was left out of the browser competition? Just curious.
ZDI Team commented on 2009-02-25 @ 16:10
@fearphage: Based on market share we only accept Internet Explorer and Firefox vulnerabilities through the ZDI. For the sake of this competition we included Chrome and Safari due to their default presence on various mobile platforms.
fearphage commented on 2009-02-26 @ 05:13
It sounds like your argument is that the surface area of Opera is small. My rebuttal:
Opera is the default browser on the Nintendo's Wii, DS and DSi. Opera is also integrated/preinstalled by default into Adobe Creative Suite 2, a number of set top boxes, and all UIQ 3 phones. Virtually all mobile phones (that aren't the iphone) can run Opera in some capacity (native or java-based).
http://www.opera.com/company/investors/finance/2008/corp_pres.pdf has quite a few devices listed that Opera is the default on.
Opera mini is still the most widely used mobile browser on the market and they are teaming up with Yahoo to push the mobile platform even farther (
http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=365403). The surface area of Opera's mobile offering is definitely greater than that of its competitors at present. I don't fault you for not knowing this though.
ZDI Team commented on 2009-02-26 @ 13:58
@fearphage: We have nothing against Opera ;-) As mentioned previously we only accept Firefox and IE bugs through the ZDI. Chrome and Safari were added as they are default installs on the mobile platforms we chose.
Type-ZERO commented on 2009-02-27 @ 18:35
I think it's hard to argue not having Opera in the mix, seeing as it's the only true cross platform browser, I think it would be a more interesting candidate. Also with the addition of mobile devices, Opera is found there as well.
Opera:
- Windows 32/64bit (XP/Vista)
- Mac OS X
- Linux 32/64bit (RedHat/Debian)
- Opera Mobile (Java Enabled Phones/Blackberry's)
- Opera Mini
- Nintendo Wii
Doesn't seem right to not have Opera there.
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