I posted on a similar thread. I'm debating with myself as to whether to give it another try. I've heard about how it may have some issues with websites that were designed primarily with Firefox and/or IE in mind.

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I opened up my web page with Opera, Mozilla (same engine as Firefox), ans IE6. The Mozilla and IE pages were pretty much identical, but the Opera browser extended the page height, produced space at the top between the header and the menu bar,and forced the top sidebar to be covered by the bottom sidebar (left hand side). So, that raises the question about compliance. Which of thes three are most w3 compliant and which one do you design to?

Same old problem... design to MS standards or w3???

Personally, I would like to think that I attaempt to be w3 compliant, but the browser market share that is MS based is huge, so if you run the Opera or Mozilla products, expect some trouble with the presentation.

Overall, I liked the Opera browser. some cool features... and quick, too. A bit slow on the start up. Any way to fix that???

 

 

 

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Surely Opera is worth using!

But it has some disadvantages also, that make me still keep IE by my side.

First of all stands compability - it's quite difficult to make site work properly in Opera. That's why
sites made by non-professional web-masters make you to start IE or NN to understand what's the page about.
Of cousre you don't face such problems surfing "commercial' internet made by web studios, but this bothers often when browsing some homepages - content may be quite useful, but you need something else to open it properly.

There other thing i don't like is Opera mail agent. It is only my opinion of course but i find it not very convenient. Besides i
still have not found such simple option like requesting feedback,when the letter had been read(( If somebody knows how to do it , i would be grateful for the info.

When Opera fixes this problems, i would delete IE))))

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I used opera a while ago ,but I like firefox more instead of opera.Though opera is good ,but I had some problem in opening some sites by using opera.The problem was with sripts,I still don't know what was the cause of it..this is because I still like to use opera instead of firefox..but I cannot.

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Opera is a good internet browser but not all websites can be accessed thru opera. You need Mozilla FireFox or Internet Explorer to access a particular site which doesnt support opera. At first I thought that opera is just a noobish internet browser that would add more problems in my daily internet addiction but when I spend more time with it, I have found out, it may be the best browser in the future. Who knows?

-Amiel

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