- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Opera has always been touchy, particularly when it comes to Javascript. And as you may have noticed, there's a lot of AJAX goodness going on in this new hawtness, particularly around the stats section but there are little interactive "sprinkles" of it throughout.
Plus the whole site runs on .NET; a lot of data about your session is stored in an encrypted Viewstate field. Try viewing the source on a page and scroll down until you see an input field of type "hidden" and id of "__VIEWSTATE". Mine has a value that is over 35,000 characters in length when I viewed the source to the page this posting is on, for example. Yours will be similar. So just that one field contains 35k of data for that one page you're viewing at the time. Were you to paste it into the body of a forum reply you'd be over the limit of characters by 25,000. Now consider that the generated source for the forum page is over 1300 lines long and you start to see where those numbers add up to be rather significant.
Be kind to your wireless browsing experience. It works harder for you than you realize sometimes.
[Edited on 06.10.2007 7:36 AM PDT]