Posts with tag: Opera

18 Nov 2010

?YouWontSeeMe

In beta 11, Opera’s going to hide all “http(s)://”, and also all querystrings (until you focus the addressbar). Opera’s devs are right that users consider them mostly “gibberish”, but I think this change could cause a ton of problems and confusion for people, especially support staff, and there are plenty of sites/apps still out there

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14 Oct 2010

About damn time, guys

Opera 11 will have extensions. Mozilla 1.0 had the first decent extension system in 2002, and since then Opera users have been begging for one and getting lame excuses and half-baked substitutes that offered none of the power of real extensions:  ”Panels” were just HTML docs beside the viewport, and “widgets” just HTML apps in

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16 Dec 2009

A Bad Precedent?

While Microsoft has certainly used unlawful practices in the past to build the Windows empire, I fail to see how Opera’s EU antitrust case was anything more than a thinly veiled (and successful) attempt by Opera—and later additional competitors—to strong-arm Microsoft into directly promoting their products. Users of Microsoft’s ubiquitous Windows operating system in Europe

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31 Jul 2009

The Quickening of Facebook

If you’ve used Facebook in Opera and Firefox, you might have noticed that Facebook is several magnitudes faster in FF, but this has nothing to do with FF’s speed. For FF and IE users, Facebook uses a client-side architecture called “Quickening” that basically makes a few popular pages into full AJAX applications that stay loaded

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5 Jan 2009

Hopes for 2009

In no particular order, I hope… the release of IE8 will spur organizations currently standardized on IE6 to finally bite the bullet and either upgrade their users to IE8 or move them to other browsers. Killing off IE6 (and IE7 really) will significantly decrease web development costs and reinvigorate CSS by opening up a world

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27 Apr 2008

Still waiting on Opera

A whole six months after beta 1′s release, 9.5 beta 2 is finally out. At work I installed it over beta 1 and it works like a charm; the issues I was waiting on seem to have been fixed. At home it’s a different story. I installed over beta 1 and the result was unusable.

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11 Mar 2008

Opera intermission

I’m a long-time Opera fan and flagwaver, but the pain of bugs in 9.5 beta finally forced me to switch to Firefox last week. I’ve been using 9.5 beta1 since the end of October. When do we get a new one? I see the weekly builds, but they’re all alphas (no thanks). The biggest problems

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24 Oct 2006

widget--

17 Dec 2006: Latest Del.icio.us Posts now works again in the latest release 9.02. Huzzah. My first Opera widget created back in July is now broken in Opera 9.02. The debugging and rebuilding process is so tedious that I probably won’t fix it very soon. A nice gesture on Opera’s part is the creation of

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4 Jul 2006

Opera folks: Make it easy to test in your browser

Opera wants to know what features web developers would most like to see. I posted this in response (but it never seemed to show up on the page): “Testing” version: offer devs a download pre-configured for more easily testing site compatibility with Opera. Marketshare will only rise if more sites are tested in Opera, so

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3 Jul 2006

widgets++

My first Opera widget is available. I designed it to take up as little desktop space as possible (a 22x22px icon) until you click it, which opens the interface and queries del.icio.us to show your latest bookmarks. By default, when you click a bookmark, the page opens in Opera and the widget “minimizes” back to

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24 Jun 2006

Opera 9 thoughts

Opera 8′s UI really had most everything it needed to be a great browser (I haven’t upgraded at work and can barely tell the difference). 9′s big delivery is in the area of web standards (opacity, SVG, DOM Style) and hot proprietary ones like rich text editing, Flash-Javascript communication and the Canvas element. There are

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10 Mar 2006

Opera 9 will pass Acid2

Technical Preview 2 came close, but the latest nightly build is on the money! This site has an entire history of Opera browsers testing Acid2. Note that IE7′s rendering is close to that of 2001′s Opera 6.

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13 Feb 2006

Opera 9 closes in

Opera 9 Technical Preview 2 rendering of the Acid2 test: Acid2 allows at-a-glance testing of browsers against web standards, particularly the most needed and under-supported features of CSS2.1 and HTML4.01.

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14 Dec 2005

My Opera 8.5 Review on CNET

As this Opera 8.5 review took awhile to put together, I might as well post it here as well. I’ve been an Opera user since v6 after being fed up with reinstalling Mozilla and its extensions. Firefox has a lot going for it these days, but it still doesn’t feel as nimble as Opera to

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30 May 2003

What Pop-ups? (An Opera Story)

Advertising.com revealed that people click on annoying pop-up ads 13 times as often as they do passive banner ads. This will surely translate to even more sites using pop-ups for generating ad revenue, but I’ll still never see them because the software developers of the web browsers Opera, Netscape, Mozilla and Safari care about user

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30 May 2003

What pop-ups?

Advertising.com revealed that people click on annoying pop-up ads 13 times as often as they do passive banner ads. This will surely translate to even more sites using pop-ups for generating ad revenue, but I’ll still never see them because the software developers of the web browsers Opera, Netscape, Mozilla and Safari care about user

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