angularopera-mini

Does Angular 2.0 Support Opera Mini


Given this article:

http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/03/angular-2-0

Angular 2.0 will support Opera but does not mention Opera Mini. I suppose that means there will not be support but would like some confirmation before writing off what would otherwise be a wonderful framework for us.

Background: I'm developing for the East Africa region where Opera Mini can compose over 80% of traffic in some countries.


Solution

  • The specs have been updated since that article (I think they now go down to IE9), but Opera Mini has really shoddy javascript support so using any client-side framework for it is a bad idea. They may work since they do have some support, but don't count on it.

    In general, if 80% of your users are on opera mini, don't use a SPA. In fact, you may want to avoid javascript completely, using something like Django would be a much safer option and it would probably result in a smaller page for the user to download (and saving on data is one of the prime reasons people use Opera mini).