Hello Arno,
On Saturday, April 15, 2000 you wrote:
> Opera Software, I agree, has been a bit - how am I going to put this
> politically correct :-) - too enthousiatic when proclaiming version
> 4.0.
Yes, I have tested beta1 and it displayed pages worse than 3.60. Of
course some of them were displayed better, but in overall it was
terrible. I have tested b3 only for a few minutes and it seems no
better. I will send some info on Opera list soon.
> However, Opera is the leading browser on CSS technology and has been
> that ever since CSS made it's appearance.
More or less. It supports some attributes which aren't supported by IE
and NN, but on the other hand it doesn't support such a simple thing
as <td style="background-color: #343638"> (I have to use bgcolor=).
Of course this was about v. 3.60, I dunno about 4.
> 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.
I must agree with this. I had a 486dx4/100 with 16 MB RAM and I ran
win95 with Opera with no problems.
> It has all kind of - for some people irrelevant, but very handy -
> features as
(...)
Turning off graphics in a one click. *That* is great!
> Your taskbar is not getting filled with tons of seperate windows, you
> can switch between different sites in an instant,
I feel the same.
> 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.
Here it had hanged until I had enlarged my swap file to 50 MB. Later
it was working OK.
> It displays incorrect HTML incorrectly. As did Netscape in it's good
> days.
Not really, it fails to display many attributes which are correct in
HTML. And Netscape now displays incorrectly even correct HTML.
Seriously I must say, that I hate NN for this.
One thing that really sucks in Opera is the lack of international
support. This is essential for many users. And implementing this isn't
complicated at all. Opera only has to select correct font script
(adequate to that the charset definition says) and make some small
transcriptions (I'm writing about Latin-based languages, like Polish,
which requires only six characters to be changed upon displaying). One
of Polish users even wrote a patch that replaces Opera's registration
procedure with the one that replaces these six characters (Iso
charset) with the ones from CP. But it only worked in ver. 3.60.
Of course I have heard about the plans to include Unicode support in
4.1, but this is a way around -- Unicode is much more complicated than
what I wrote above.
This off-topic has gotten quite large, sorry :). EOT ;)
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Christopher J. Trybowski
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