Wandering electrons... but not too far

I'm a huge fan of the New York Times and was interested to see this headline:

Browsers Are a Battleground Once Again

"Cool! thought I, they're going to compare Opera 9.5 beta with Firefox 3!"

Over 1000 words later, can you believe that they did not even mention Opera?!

Not even once.

This was especailly angering when I read:

Early versions of Firefox introduced features like a built-in pop-up blocker to kill ads, and tabbed browsing, which lets users toggle between Web windows.

To your emails Opera defenders! :

[NYT] NEWS DEPARTMENT
To send comments and suggestions (about news coverage only) or to report errors that call for correction, e-mail nytnews@nytimes.com or leave a message at 1-888-NYT-NEWS. To contact a reporter, click on the byline of one of his or her articles to access the reader e-mail form.

Remember though: respect and intelligent aurguments. Opera is the smart people's browser!

Update 07:41 p.m.

Since I put up this post, the New York Times has changed the title of the article. It is now "An Upstart Challenges the Big Web Browsers". Did they see the errors of their ways? I'd like to think so. But even if they've thus avoided the Opera challenge bullet, they've also made me snicker a bit, referring to Firefox as an "upstart".