Opera

[Peter van Heusden]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:41:35AM -0400, kelley wrote:
> 
> frankly, i think opera sux.  i have a supafast cable connection and some 
> ace processing power, so i'm spoiled, granted.  but, really, i just got 
> done checking some pages in all of them and opera makes everything look 
> cheesy as hell. yeah, yeah, it's great for checking your code. and yeah 
> yeah yeah, i know, you don't want no purty pictures and effects anyway. 
> well, even so, i created a nav. and i really dug the font. since it 
> wouldn't be available for all users (not a standard font; i'm learning 
> about typography chuck!) and since i wanted the mouseover effect anyway, i 
> made images.  well, opera rendering is s h i t!  shit! shitshitshit!!!

Sorry, posted my message before reading all of yesterday's LBO-talk...

On Opera:

Frankly, I think this trade-union linkup thing is a gimmick - but 
it made me download and install it anyway, just to check it out. What I
like about it:

1) Its fast (to load and use, that is - my other browser options
are Netscape 4.76 and Mozilla 0.8.1 - both clunky on my FreeBSD
system)

2) It renders things reasonable well (as opposed to Netscape 4.76,
for instance)

3) Most of the controls can be accessed easily from the keyboard - 
this is a biggie for me, because my RSI plays up particularly 
badly when I use any mouse-like stuff.

Peter
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