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June 17, 2005
Dear Opera
About 8.0.1 on Mac OS X...
- nice rendering engine - snappy, looks nice (except for text placement in form widgets)
- your toolbar/tab/prefs and URL bar UI looks terrible - see Apple Human Interface Guidelines
You did the hard part, now finish the job outside the content area. Seriously looking forward to 8.5! Uninstalling 8.0.1.
P.S. All your bases are belong to Camino.
Posted by josh at June 17, 2005 3:57 PM
Comments
While Opera's interface needs a lot of work, their CSS3 advances are impressive. I hope Camino and its gecko siblings follow suit.
Posted by: Paul D at June 17, 2005 4:45 PM
I thought they abandoned the Mac platform, guess I was wrong.
Posted by: Martijn at June 17, 2005 5:26 PM
[win user]
uhm, what browser has better interface than opera?
Posted by: megaman at June 17, 2005 6:00 PM
Well, the Opera User Interface is very bad at all, but Gecko can hardly compete with the rendering engine, there's still a lot of bugfixing to be done
Posted by: Mac at June 17, 2005 6:10 PM
Mac: that's BS. :)
For example, Gecko 1.8b2 supports SVG (not all of it, but more than SVG Tiny), MathML, WhatWG Canvas and XForms (via an extension) and stuff like CSS 3 opacity. From these Opera has only a subset of SVG - SVG Tiny.
Yes, there are some things Presto (Opera's engine) supports that Gecko does not, but saying "Gecko can hardly complete" is just a piece of unjustifiable FUD.
Posted by: marcoos at June 17, 2005 6:59 PM
Watch out, Josh...all the Opera trolls from Asa's blog will start showing up here.
That said, I had the same reaction :-)
Posted by: Smokey Ardisson at June 18, 2005 12:33 AM
> [win user]
> uhm, what browser has better interface than opera?
Any?
Posted by: tveidt at June 18, 2005 10:55 AM
Yeah the default looks terrible. That's why I use this: http://www.demuths.de/iopera/ or make your own. :)
Posted by: Joel at June 19, 2005 7:21 AM
I am not sure what they have done, but the Opera for Mac UI is a travesty at best.
Posted by: Stephen Horlander at June 20, 2005 11:46 AM