On the car analogy: wouldn't Jane expect to pay some additional fees over the years to keep the car in shape? Unless she's a mechanic herself of course, about as likely as she being an Linux expert.
Opera long ago decided to *not* pass on any protocol or scheme to the operating system, except for a few well defined cases (ftp, telnet, mailto). Users of Opera 7 can add specific protocols/schemes manually in the prefs if they want.
Lesson of today: there is always a danger in presenting yourself as 'the save alternative'. Proper engineering can reduce risks, but there are never garantees. Not that this example was especially worrying imho: you'd still have to be tricked to visit a specific website that plans to harm you. Not that likely unless you to tend to visit the bowels of the web...
Opera: Sharp Zaurus Linux PDAs, one model of Nokia phone (not for long, though),
Opera 6 ships with the Nokia 6600, 9210i and the new 7610, and the Sony Ericson P800 and P900. Opera 7 ships on some new Kyocera phones for the Chinese and Japanese markets. On most of these phones it is a complimentary product, on some it is the default web browser. See the full list here.
Of course there is no 'force' involved here. You can choose between banners, google text ads (just about as bad for your privacy as looking at them in a webpage), and paying a few bucks.
It is FUD that Google stores URLs you visit. Google is not storing this on a IP level, and https sites and password protected URLs are not sent to Google by Opera to begin width.
And unlike Thunderbird, this works for *all* external elements in a mail, like stylesheets, scripts, table backgrounds, plugins etc. It's been a feature of Opera since 6.0, November 2001.
Opera also supports XHTML, and maybe Safari as well. But the point is not that you should use XHTML and send the page as such (mime type application/xhtml+xml).
The point is, that using cleaner markup (can be HTML 4.01) and a little bit of CSS makes the page load faster and give less headaches to browser developers. It would also make it much easier to make little changes in the layout later.
The current 'new' design is still pure tagsoup, that accidentally renders as expected in the major browsers.
We are talking about a Norwegian corporation here. Social responsibility is not something to laugh about in Scandinavia. And anyway, a company that does not enjoy a monopolistic control of its market (there are other browsers, even for mobile devices) would have to be suicidal before if harms the best interests of its users.
There has been a single handful of security issues in the past years, which were either solved with a fixed build even before the vulnerability was made public, or at most a few days later.
You are correct, SSR can be harmful when the page was actually designed for small screens. But of course Opera's SSR can be turned off. And when the XHTML comes with an style sheet for the medium 'handheld', this will be applied.
The URL http://www.opera.com/products/smartphone/ has been given before here, but it is also an example of using a 'handheld' stylesheet. Press Shift+F11 to see the effect in Opera 7 for Windows of Linux.
HTML 2.0 and the Strict variant HTML 4.01/XHTML 1.0 (which have the same vocabulary of elements) are not so far apart. It's the crud that got inserted in between (FONT, color and align attributes) that we're better off without, now that CSS support is quite decent in 95% of the browsers used. CSS makes webdesign easier, especially when you don't have to think about Netscape 4 compatability.
Separation of structure and style not only makes your work easier. It will also make a difference for blind users when tool builders can actually count on it.
In Opera's SDI mode, you can have a 'Page bar' with tabs that are more functional than Mozilla's tabs. You've also got more shortcuts (but they are a little awkward). For example, Ctrl+Alt+N for opening a new tab. Or press Ctrl+Alt+Shift and click a link to open it in a new tab on the background. You can even drag the tabs between windows.
I've been to the Hannover Expo 2000, and walked through this cardboard building. It was big, and sturdy enough to hold lots of people. And indeed compeltely recyclable.
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On the car analogy: wouldn't Jane expect to pay some additional fees over the years to keep the car in shape? Unless she's a mechanic herself of course, about as likely as she being an Linux expert.
Opera long ago decided to *not* pass on any protocol or scheme to the operating system, except for a few well defined cases (ftp, telnet, mailto). Users of Opera 7 can add specific protocols/schemes manually in the prefs if they want.
Lesson of today: there is always a danger in presenting yourself as 'the save alternative'. Proper engineering can reduce risks, but there are never garantees. Not that this example was especially worrying imho: you'd still have to be tricked to visit a specific website that plans to harm you. Not that likely unless you to tend to visit the bowels of the web...
Opera 6 ships with the Nokia 6600, 9210i and the new 7610, and the Sony Ericson P800 and P900. Opera 7 ships on some new Kyocera phones for the Chinese and Japanese markets. On most of these phones it is a complimentary product, on some it is the default web browser. See the full list here.
Of course there is no 'force' involved here. You can choose between banners, google text ads (just about as bad for your privacy as looking at them in a webpage), and paying a few bucks.
It is FUD that Google stores URLs you visit. Google is not storing this on a IP level, and https sites and password protected URLs are not sent to Google by Opera to begin width.
Which is related to the mail clients in which way... ?
And unlike Thunderbird, this works for *all* external elements in a mail, like stylesheets, scripts, table backgrounds, plugins etc. It's been a feature of Opera since 6.0, November 2001.
Opera also supports XHTML, and maybe Safari as well. But the point is not that you should use XHTML and send the page as such (mime type application/xhtml+xml).
The point is, that using cleaner markup (can be HTML 4.01) and a little bit of CSS makes the page load faster and give less headaches to browser developers. It would also make it much easier to make little changes in the layout later.
The current 'new' design is still pure tagsoup, that accidentally renders as expected in the major browsers.
We are talking about a Norwegian corporation here. Social responsibility is not something to laugh about in Scandinavia. And anyway, a company that does not enjoy a monopolistic control of its market (there are other browsers, even for mobile devices) would have to be suicidal before if harms the best interests of its users.
FUD.
There has been a single handful of security issues in the past years, which were either solved with a fixed build even before the vulnerability was made public, or at most a few days later.
There are currently no open vulnerabilities.
In what sense is this 'worse than IE'?
Mid-click is configurable in Opera 7.20 and higher for Windows, and 7.11 and higher for Linux.
You are correct, SSR can be harmful when the page was actually designed for small screens. But of course Opera's SSR can be turned off. And when the XHTML comes with an style sheet for the medium 'handheld', this will be applied.
The URL http://www.opera.com/products/smartphone/ has been given before here, but it is also an example of using a 'handheld' stylesheet. Press Shift+F11 to see the effect in Opera 7 for Windows of Linux.
HTML 2.0 and the Strict variant HTML 4.01/XHTML 1.0 (which have the same vocabulary of elements) are not so far apart. It's the crud that got inserted in between (FONT, color and align attributes) that we're better off without, now that CSS support is quite decent in 95% of the browsers used. CSS makes webdesign easier, especially when you don't have to think about Netscape 4 compatability.
Separation of structure and style not only makes your work easier. It will also make a difference for blind users when tool builders can actually count on it.
The whole point is that you don't need *anything* special server-side in Opera.
In Opera's SDI mode, you can have a 'Page bar' with tabs that are more functional than Mozilla's tabs. You've also got more shortcuts (but they are a little awkward). For example, Ctrl+Alt+N for opening a new tab. Or press Ctrl+Alt+Shift and click a link to open it in a new tab on the background. You can even drag the tabs between windows.
By now, WinMSIE is the only browser being actively developed that *doesn't* support PNG transparency.
I notice that Zeldman is not on the 'About' page of the publishing site....
The CSS indeed has some small problems, but nowhere in the same league with the sites Zeldman attacks.
For those who don't like to read scanned paper, here's a link to the official Dutch site where almost all verdicts are made publicly available:
p ?u i_id=31892
http://www.rechtspraak.nl/uitspraak/frameset.as
I've been to the Hannover Expo 2000, and walked through this cardboard building. It was big, and sturdy enough to hold lots of people. And indeed compeltely recyclable.
Besides having those mouse gestures, Opera also uses most of the keys on your keyboard as single key shortcuts. See the list of shortcuts.