Comments for Opera 7 tag:bradchoate.com,2007://4- 2005-08-19T09:44:51Z The man, the legend. Movable Type -en-trunk--20070910 tag:bradchoate.com,2003://4.1422-comment:642 Comment from Phil Ringnalda on 2003-01-29 Phil Ringnalda http://philringnalda.com Ads: from the final screen of the installer (you didn't read every word?!):

"Opera will start displaying banner ads after 14 days if not registered."

Probably a pretty good idea: two weeks to get their target market hooked, and then the ads encourage them to pay up.

Off to see whether they are still lying about their DOM support.

]]> 2003-01-29T09:52:15Z tag:bradchoate.com,2003://4.1422-comment:650 Comment from Ole on 2003-01-30 Ole http://www.oleb.de/ Too bad that browser competition for MacOS seems to decline. In fear of Safari, both Opera and Chimera developments are likely to be stopped.]]> 2003-01-30T16:43:05Z tag:bradchoate.com,2003://4.1422-comment:697 Comment from Jeff on 2003-02-14 Jeff http://jeff.hume.ca Chimera isn't going to stop. Mike Pinkerton, the lead developer, was "torn" on what to do with the project when Safari was released, but now development is going strong.

Opera will probably stop their development, but its not like they have been doing much anyways. They still only have version 6 out on OS X and it sucks. It is not very mac-like at all and it doesn't support standards as well as other browsers.

I see competition on OS X increasing we have lots of browsers.

- Mozilla is getting better especially with 1.3b since they moved to the machO code base. It is faster now.

- Chimera is still going and moving along nicely. I, and many others, still use it over Safari because of tabbed browsing and various other things.

- Omniweb will hopefully have another version out soon, possibly using webcore. Their CEO said they were considering it.

- Safari will just improve and provide a great standards compliant HTML engine on the mac platform

- IE, well who cares :). It might continue, it might not, but if Safari can get their page rendering very good it wont matter.

- Experimental Phoenix OS X build. This looks promising.

- Other webcore based browsers. I can see more browsers being made in the future based on webcore. This will give a standards compliant, fast and open source renderer for them to use easily. This is a good thing.

So it seems browsers are doing better on OS X than in the windows world.

]]> 2003-02-14T19:29:29Z tag:bradchoate.com,2003://4.1422-comment:708 Comment from Rob on 2003-02-15 Rob http://www.basestationrepair.com My site tends to look pretty good in Safari. However, it renders the pages so much different than IE, OmniWeb, Mozilla, and Phoenix. I just find it difficult to write the pages so they look good in all the browsers now. I don't even bother with Opera and Chimera. Of all the browsers, the site still looks the best in Mozilla and IE. OmniWeb looks good, but does horrible with the Styles.]]> 2003-02-15T17:35:55Z