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Opera 6.03 - The Wild Child of Browsers?
IEEE1394 writes: "Ever wondered what other Internet browsers are available outside of Internet Explorer? Opera 6.03 from Opera Software boasts itself on being 'the fastest browser on earth.' Does it really live up to its claim of being unique and being fast? Is it
the wild child of the browser family and can it ever surpass Internet Explorer as the browser of choice? Let's find out." Funny, IE isn't my browser of choice ...
... a very very slow monday for you to post such a story ... i think everyone slightly interested in opera that reads /. already tested it
IAAL
8mb 386 running Windows?
Hah
running 3.1 is a joke on that system
Give it a rest, quit using yard-sale hardware
Whatever you may have to say about IE, it's still the browser of choice. The choice I refer to of cource being the choice of web designers.
What's the point of using another browser anyway with this being the case.
I always seem to have to return to IE when I have trouble browing sites. (Such as all the banking sites in my country...)
Opera does follow the W3C standards, in contradiction to IE, which most likely won't display W3C-standard pages properly.
Good troll kid, but IE displays their own standards AND W3C standard pages properly. A hint... if you know what you're talking about before you troll, you're more effective.
Leave the web designer alone, you standards compliant nazi!
He's right, you know. Banks and large corporations don't give a stuff. It's not viable.
The market and free economy will take care of things: If the browser was really that good people would be using it, and the sites would follow.
Methinks it's the other browsers that are at fault.
Opera doesn't have to beat IE as a browser, it has to beat Mozilla. Opera is a good browser in ways, but it's got to be a lot better than Mozilla to attract a market.
Ummm... what market? You mean that whopping 1.5% of non-IE users out there right now? Considering that even those people are mostly Open Source fanatics that are living with their parents with an average annual income of $200, I really doubt that's much of a "market".
Hate to say this, because I used to love Opera as much as anyone could love such an underdog. Opera, however, as far as I can tell, engages in the deplorable practice of spamming. I used an untouched address to send them a bug report. Within days I was receiving 6-10 spam mails per day - and this was a business address, which had never received spam before and was not used for any other online activity save for legitimate email receiving. It's died down since I started reporting them all to Spamcop, but it still surprised the hell out of me. I sent Opera another note protesting the whole thing and asking for an explanation, but I haven't yet heard back from them. If anyone knows contrary, please post - I'd love to stop thinking they'd do such things and go back to supporting them.
Yet when Microsoft patches something the same day as the vulnerability is announced they get raked over the coals but its great that Opera does the same thing. Now this may not apply to you personally - but your comment does seem a bit hypocritical considering the comments that are normally posted on such subjects here.
J
I love idealists not because I am one, but because they make life bearable for pragmatists such as myself.
I'd like to see one of your sites. There we will learn that the reason you really don't support other browsers is ignorance.
If you're writing apps for an M$ only audience, why use browser technology at all?
You program for windows yet call yourself a "web programmer". You are helping M$ co-opt a technology that belongs to the free world. You are helping M$ get away with their illegal practices.
The reason you do it (to feed the kids) may be honorable, but the act itself is not. You are part of the problem.