Alexander,
Saturday, April 15, 2000, 3:34:56 PM, schreef je:
Alexander> <start Off-Topic>
Alexander> I _really_ hope there will be no market for Opera;-) I've installed Opera
five
Alexander> (!!!) times here, starting with I believe 3.something, ending with 4/beta.
I
Alexander> _fully_ support the loud voices I hear these days: "They told they've done
a
Alexander> _real_ browser, but did absolutely nothing".
Opera Software, I agree, has been a bit - how am I going to put this
politically correct :-) - too enthousiatic when proclaiming version
4.0. However, Opera is the leading browser on CSS technology and has
been that ever since CSS made it's appearance. It helped people
working on low-power systems to surf the Web in a normal way. It's
speed is overwhelming when compared to IE and NS. It has all kind of
- for some people irrelevant, but very handy - features as displaying your "waiting
line
position", the Hotlist idea, extremely well keyboard navigation
possibilities, automatic domain completion (e.g. you can type
grafix/help , which redirects you to http://www.grafix.nl/help or .com
or .net or whatever extensions you have told Opera to look for).
Your taskbar is not getting filled with tons of seperate windows, you
can switch between different sites in an instant, it gives a beautiful
listing of files you are retrieving (which comes out handy when you
have a cable connection :-) et cetera et cetera. The list of small but
valueable features is way, way, way too long to write down in a
mailing list about The Bat!, though.
However, the main goal of a browser still is displaying HTML in an
understandable way. I must confess Opera is not useful for extremely
multimedia-orientated sites. It's absolutely not worse than IE and NS
for 99% of the sites, though.
Alexander> It hangs
Opera 3.60 has hanged two times in one and a half year at my system.
That extends the crashes of IE with thousands of percents.
Alexander> , it fails to display HTML
Alexander> correctly
It displays incorrect HTML incorrectly. As did Netscape in it's good
days.
Alexander> , it GPFs (the ONLY triple GPF I've seen this month was Opera's),
It does WHAT? :-)
Alexander>some versions also leak terribly.
Ah well, the spoiled-coffee spots on my desk are worse :-)
Alexander> IMO, Opera's success has an exact nature of M$'s one: the clever marketing
Alexander> policy claiming that it's "a new type of the browser: less bloated, but
only
Alexander> _slightly_ less-functional, really user-friendly". It's a lie! It's like
M$'s
Alexander> marketing, only reversed: exploiting people's _dislike_ towards M$-like
Alexander> applications. But the plain ugly truth is that it's only a marketing slogan
and
Alexander> _nothing_ else.
opera.com, download page:
<quote>
You've got a choice!
If you haven't experienced our competitors' products, this may be the right time to do
it. We believe that in order
to appreciate the size and speed of Opera you need to see them first, but we warn you
of extremely large file size,
extensive download times, as well as hard disk and processor requirements. The rest we
leave up to you to judge.
<unquote>
Have you seen that on microsoft.com of Netcenter?
Alexander> <end Off-Topic>
There's nothing better than off-topic discussions :-)
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