opera -- was: Re: downloading

[Tim Wunder]

On Thursday 12 September 2002 10:23 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> I am on the opera users list.
> I like opera a lot. I even bought the non-ad version, which is much better,
> since those annoying banner ads go away and you have much more screen
> space.
> BUT
> Opera is not fully compliant with DOM W3C. Therefore, some sites, which are
> compliant, don't work with opera. IIE is the most compliant browser around,
> AFAIK. I think that MS is playing the game smart. They are pushing ahead
> and rapidly complying with the new standards coming from the W3C people
> before the others have time to do it.

I'm sorry, Joel, but this simply is as wrong as wrong can be. Mozilla is, far 
and away, the most W3C compliant browser made. MSIE6 for Mac is also supposed 
to be very good. Opera 6 is also rated rather high. IE 5 for Mac/Windows and 
IE6 for Windows are, um, not quite so good. It's interesting, though that MS 
can make a highly compliant browser for the Mac, but not for Windows. 
Hmmm.....

> But, much more commonly, sites check for IIE and netscape and adjust
> accordingly. NOBODY (almost) checks for opera.
> Even when you try to masquerade as mozilla, they still don't think you are
> netscape. You may have to turn off reporting of javascript errors to
> navigate some sites.
> I do most of my browsing in opera. It is quick and clean and nice to
> use. I use netscape 6.2 (just switched to 7.0, but this may not be a
> step up) 

I can't imagine Netscape 6.2 (based on Mozilla 0.9.4) being behind Netscape 
7.0 (based on Mozilla 1.0.1)
<snip>

I profess no expertise on Opera, however, as I haven't used it since, cripes, 
since well before Mozilla changed from M## milestones to x.x.x releases 
(somewhere around M16, I think). Oh, you shoulda tried Mozilla back then, 
that was quite an experience...

Regards,
 Tim

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