Posted by
Hemos
on from the getting-another-browser dept.
bigdan writes "A new interview with the lead programmer of the Linux team
porting Opera has him (Darren Starr) stating that they hope to have
a public beta by Christmas (of Opera 4.0). The interview also
goes on to mention a Sparc version coming soon.
"
Giddyup! . .but will it do W3C specs?
by
Money__
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from the interview:How will the Linux version compare to the Windows version when it comes to features?
DS We don't have mail and news but we should have everything else. In a lot of cases we will have more features to make Linux users happy.
Like what?
DS Control from outside programs so that it may be used with other programs such as KDE and Gnome.
Good news for Gnome users
What I found interesting is how short the interview was, and how little discussion there was about WC3 standards. In order to maintain control ov the client side of the net, it will be very important to be at least minimaly complient with the specs.
Any browser competition is good..
by
xtal
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· Score: 4
In order to prevent a real mess on the web, lots of browsers using standard specifications are a good thing (tm). If mozilla, opera, etc gain mindshare, then in turn sites will be designed with this in mind.
A good browser is absolutely essential to the success of linux, be it open or closed source - BillyG isn't dumb, and there's a reason that IE5.0 is one sweet product. Lots of people on/. have pointed out that they boot windows to use it - this isn't a good thing, we want the "list of reasons" for/dev/hda fat32 to go down, not up!:)
Otoh, it _is_ closed source, although the Opera team did a excellent job on their windows browser, which runs quite nicely on an old 486/75 notebook in the living room displaying my channel listings:).
Mozilla will stomp them all given time.. open source will always win over time, because companies can't/won't commit to infiniately developing and improving a product line - look at the slowdown with Netscape on Linux.
I'm incredibly pleased to see Sparc Linux support. When closed-source programs do support a non-x86 Linux platform, it's almost invariably Alpha and/or PPC. This is great news for those of us running Linux on a Sparc.
-- "The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
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DS We don't have mail and news but we should have everything else. In a lot of cases we will have more features to make Linux users happy.
Like what?
DS Control from outside programs so that it may be used with other programs such as KDE and Gnome.
Good news for Gnome users
What I found interesting is how short the interview was, and how little discussion there was about WC3 standards. In order to maintain control ov the client side of the net, it will be very important to be at least minimaly complient with the specs.
In order to prevent a real mess on the web, lots of browsers using standard specifications are a good thing (tm). If mozilla, opera, etc gain mindshare, then in turn sites will be designed with this in mind.
A good browser is absolutely essential to the success of linux, be it open or closed source - BillyG isn't dumb, and there's a reason that IE5.0 is one sweet product. Lots of people on /. have pointed out that they boot windows to use it - this isn't a good thing, we want the "list of reasons" for /dev/hda fat32 to go down, not up! :)
Otoh, it _is_ closed source, although the Opera team did a excellent job on their windows browser, which runs quite nicely on an old 486/75 notebook in the living room displaying my channel listings :).
Mozilla will stomp them all given time.. open source will always win over time, because companies can't/won't commit to infiniately developing and improving a product line - look at the slowdown with Netscape on Linux.
Kudos..
..don't panic
I'm incredibly pleased to see Sparc Linux support. When closed-source programs do support a non-x86 Linux platform, it's almost invariably Alpha and/or PPC. This is great news for those of us running Linux on a Sparc.
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown