Re: Opera for Linux

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

"Chris J/#6" <sixie [at] nccnet.co.uk> tapped some keys and produced:

> Now...from what I've been told :) Opera doesn't support lots of fancy 
> stuff. I don't know what its Java type credentials are, but its 
> essentially just a web browser (does it have builtin mail or news?) I 
> can't tell you what fanct stuff isn't supported as it was some time ago 
> this was brought up :)

Fancy stuff:
CSS, Java, JS, XML.
AFAIK Opera supports CSS and JS, maybe even Java in the latest beta.
Yeah, there's Shockwave etc, but that's open source, RealPlayer is
probably usable once you have Java (that's how 5.0 worked [or didn't]).

Opera does not do mail and news. Which is a big bonus in my book.

> Netscap^H^H^H^H^H^H^HMozilla, from first glance, looks...different :) I 
> have no problems with skins...I just don't use them myself. But it 
> renders damn quick compared to netscape 4.6...I'm vaguely impressed :) 
> Yes, I aggree that its taken a bloody long time though to get to this 
> state, but at first looks,
> it ain't that bad. 24MB or memory it's chewing up - which is comparable 
> to
> Netscape's memory use.

Huge download and crashes about every 10 minutes (not a full segfault, just
stops being usable, scrollbars lock up or stops rendering correctly).
 
> I'll see what happens. The Opera beta I tried a couple of months or so 
> back wasn't very stable, and I found it pretty much useless...couldn't 
> do owt with
> it. *shrug*

Yeah, it needs a few things, but it still makes Netscape look like amateurs.


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