Google Reader Now Works In Opera!
Not even a week after I posted a hack to get Google Reader working in Opera, one of the engineers on the project shows up in the comments to let us all now that Reader now works just fine in the world’s best browser, no hacks necessary. I deleted my user script, and I can assure you that Reader now works just fine, although I have some focus issues with keyboard shortcuts. A big thank you to the Google Reader team for helping out us Opera users, who now have an option that is very competitive with Bloglines.
I sent a few questions to the team member, Mihai Parparita, and hopefully we’ll get a little more information on the fix.
UPDATE: Got a response last night (my email was lost in the spam filter, proving you should always mention on your blog that you emailed someone, so they know to check). One detail: The fix was created by the Reader team, and not just used the Opera community user script (since that would have broken other browsers. However, “It helped in that it identified functionality that was broken in Opera (some of the bugs were more subtle, e.g. those involving scrolling)”. Also, they won’t intentionally break Opera support in future updates, and perform basic sanity checks before releases.
Extremely sweet. I learned this first from you.
It’s good that Mihai also stopped by to let you know that Opera works now. 
Comment by Matt Cutts | October 19, 2006
I dunno about anyone else, but scrolling is buggy. Scrolling up OR down makes the list go down for me in Opera 9.
Comment by Shaun Kester | October 19, 2006