Comments on: Free Opera Licences — Today Only http://www.unheardword.com/archives/2005/08/31/free-opera-licences-today-only/ Fri, 18 May 2012 23:18:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Vicki http://www.unheardword.com/archives/2005/08/31/free-opera-licences-today-only/#comment-36 Vicki Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:56:48 +0000 http://www.unheardword.com/?p=42#comment-36 Hi Prabhath, nice to see you here. :-) I am sure I remember that when I first started getting interested in first CSS and then web standards, Eric Meyer said on the CSS-Discuss email list that Mac/IE5 was <strong>the</strong> best for implementing CSS, with Opera a close second. How times change! But Opera 8 does have some quite nifty features and is a very well-rounded... well... it's now much more than just a browser. And giving away free licences as "birthday presents" is a great way for it to gain publicity and hopefully (for them) market share. If it gains market share against Win/IE (which we're unlikely to ever see because I believe Opera by default identifies itself as Win/IE) the developers could be encouraged to catch up in the areas of CSS support and web standards. (Truthfully, the sites I've viewed on Opera 8 — admittedly not many — look just fine.) Anyway, the point for us webdev types is that most of us do test in Opera so a free licence is great. :-D Hi Prabhath, nice to see you here. :-)

I am sure I remember that when I first started getting interested in first CSS and then web standards, Eric Meyer said on the CSS-Discuss email list that Mac/IE5 was the best for implementing CSS, with Opera a close second. How times change!

But Opera 8 does have some quite nifty features and is a very well-rounded… well… it’s now much more than just a browser. And giving away free licences as “birthday presents” is a great way for it to gain publicity and hopefully (for them) market share.

If it gains market share against Win/IE (which we’re unlikely to ever see because I believe Opera by default identifies itself as Win/IE) the developers could be encouraged to catch up in the areas of CSS support and web standards. (Truthfully, the sites I’ve viewed on Opera 8 — admittedly not many — look just fine.)

Anyway, the point for us webdev types is that most of us do test in Opera so a free licence is great. :-D

]]> By: Prabhath http://www.unheardword.com/archives/2005/08/31/free-opera-licences-today-only/#comment-35 Prabhath Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:16:47 +0000 http://www.unheardword.com/?p=42#comment-35 Opera indeed is a very interesting browser, and they have done a lot for web standards. But I do agree with Anatoly on <a href="http://fecklessmind.com/main/9/created-by-the-devil-himself" rel="nofollow">this</a> to a certain degree. Opera indeed is a very interesting browser, and they have done a lot for web standards.

But I do agree with Anatoly on this to a certain degree.

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