Re: Opera
From Nathan Thompson-Amato <nd...@jps.net>
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· 10 May 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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On Sun, 10 May 1998 05:07:26 GMT, Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> wrote: >I have not used Opera yet, but it should serve well as a calibration >tool, better than the two leading web browsers, better than html editors >(most of which try to render well in the two leading web browsers rather >than adhering to the html standards.) I've tried Opera (under Win3.1 on a 486 with 6MB RAM); here's what I've found: - It doesn't render pages quickly. It downloads them fast enough, and there isn't a lot of swapping to disk while it works, but the pages just don't get drawn with the same speed that they do under Netscape (Navigator 3.01). + The mouse isn't mandatory. I love this part. + You can scale pages to various percentages of their normal size. I wouldn't use this, but somebody recently mentioned that MSIE had this feature. + Massively configurable. I'd still like to see more, of course, but it's a step in the right direction. ? A severe deemphasis on mail/news integration. I like to be able to use outside mail and news agents, but sometimes the one that comes with the browser is the best one available. (This is particularly important when memory is low and opening up a huge mail or news app involves beating the hell out of the hard drive.) - Payware. The fact that Opera renders slowly is the main reason I'm not using it. However, this may be the result of my own system's weirdness, or 16 bit Windows, or some combination. I strongly encourage others to take a look: http://www.operasoftware.com/. Nathan
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