Comments on: My Opera Rant http://julianapena.com/2010/03/my-opera-rant/ Musings of a computer science student Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Alastair Scott http://julianapena.com/2010/03/my-opera-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-317 Alastair Scott Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:48:00 +0000 http://julianapena.com/2010/03/my-opera-rant/#comment-317 Another serious problem is that it doesn't support extensions; Firefox led the way and Chrome is following and, soon, I predict that all browsers will either have to support them or fail.<br><br>Without extensions, support for useful tools such as ReadItLater and LastPass is awkward, using Javascript bookmarklets which are far harder to set up than an extension and don't do as much - for example, they cannot communicate with the parent application and the password database has to be exported to them in an encrypted form.<br><br>Even worse, native password support is via a closed database (Wand) which I am suspicious of precisely because it is closed ... Another serious problem is that it doesn't support extensions; Firefox led the way and Chrome is following and, soon, I predict that all browsers will either have to support them or fail.

Without extensions, support for useful tools such as ReadItLater and LastPass is awkward, using Javascript bookmarklets which are far harder to set up than an extension and don't do as much – for example, they cannot communicate with the parent application and the password database has to be exported to them in an encrypted form.

Even worse, native password support is via a closed database (Wand) which I am suspicious of precisely because it is closed …

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]]> By: siedrix http://julianapena.com/2010/03/my-opera-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-308 siedrix Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:01:17 +0000 http://julianapena.com/2010/03/my-opera-rant/#comment-308 Opera has a positioning problem; I simple can’t get it into my mind. Not long ago I downloaded Opera 10.5, when I read that it had a JavaScript engine faster than Chromes V8's, after a little while y simple stop remembering that I had it install.<br>Before that I tested Opera Live that allows me to make my browser an html, download and notes server with some other features. I tested the widgets, one that allow you to turn Opera into something quite similar to Mozilla's Flock.<br><br>I stop testing it after a week, mainly because the server didn’t have anything else but JavaScript server side and there has any tutorial on how to make it run. There they lose a good opportunity to turn me as a customer a simple plug in that would allow me to use PHP as back end would have made me a costumer for a long time; or at least a good tutorial on who to set up JavaScript server side.<br><br>Every day I read a post or 2 about CSS made with some –web-kit-something-fancy or –moz-something-buzzy but I never read about a –opera-stuff. It’s incredible that IE6 has more users… <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stat...</a> ...<br><br>I don’t know exactly what Opera needs to do, but isn’t in the developer side, it’s in the user experience, social, mouth-to-mouth side… Opera has a positioning problem; I simple can’t get it into my mind. Not long ago I downloaded Opera 10.5, when I read that it had a JavaScript engine faster than Chromes V8's, after a little while y simple stop remembering that I had it install.
Before that I tested Opera Live that allows me to make my browser an html, download and notes server with some other features. I tested the widgets, one that allow you to turn Opera into something quite similar to Mozilla's Flock.

I stop testing it after a week, mainly because the server didn’t have anything else but JavaScript server side and there has any tutorial on how to make it run. There they lose a good opportunity to turn me as a customer a simple plug in that would allow me to use PHP as back end would have made me a costumer for a long time; or at least a good tutorial on who to set up JavaScript server side.

Every day I read a post or 2 about CSS made with some –web-kit-something-fancy or –moz-something-buzzy but I never read about a –opera-stuff. It’s incredible that IE6 has more users… http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stat... …

I don’t know exactly what Opera needs to do, but isn’t in the developer side, it’s in the user experience, social, mouth-to-mouth side…

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