On 28/12/08 16:55, Jacob Schmude wrote:
In most normal-sized pages, where Safari takes several seconds
to interact, opera is instantaneous.
Sounds good!
The other minor issues include not supporting a lot of navigation
keys--no headings, and the like.
I suspect they intend you to use Opera's built-in keys for navigation.
For info see:
http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/nomouse/
and
http://my.opera.com/Rijk/blog/2008/10/18/more-single-key-shortcuts
For example, with "Enable single key shortcuts" ticked in Preferences,
you can press "S" or "W" to go to the next or previous heading and "Q"
and "A" to go to the next or previous link (as opposed to button).
It also doesn't support Voiceover's grouped mode,
and if you have group mode turned on the page gets extremely out of
order.
That's useful to know.
The Dom in opera seems to order things differently in any case,
so it's probably confusing Voiceover's grouping function. Voiceover gets
a two-dimensional view of the page in Opera anyway, even without group
mode.
The DOM is the same, or very nearly the same (otherwise writing
JavaScript for Safari and Opera would be nigh impossible). It may be
that the Accessibility tree renderings of the page are very different,
however.
All in all, if it weren't for that pop-up button bug, I'd probably
switch to Opera as my main browser.
[snip]
Opera
says they're looking into the pop-up button issue, so hopefully we'll
get a fix in the near future.
This all sounds like good news.
--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
