My Operalaunching...
Friday, June 23, 2006 5:47:13 PM
As everyone probably knows already, Opera 9 launched on Tuesday in Seattle. I was there. For a while it seemed like a close-run thing - I was in New York the day before, and had to be back the day after, for W3C meetings. I got a red-eye flight each way.
On the way there we were delayed 5 hours - first by a weather problem, then, when we got in the plane and were taxiing to the runway, the engine flared as they started it. Passengers in the back saw the flames and freaked out, to the point that we had to go back to the terminal and change from one perfectly good plane to another. So I was extremely tired when I got there.
I presented widgets. Being extremely tired, I had them on a USB stick rather than copying across to the machine we were presenting on - a Mac, also using Parallels to show windows. Big mistake. First, the USB stick was taken out of the machine so I couldn't find my cool in-development previews at the crucial moment
When I did get going, Parallels had done something wierd and we had no keyboard (I was using keyboard-controlled widgets) so I switched to the Mac native. In the end it worked out ok.
So I left the party and went back to New York. Well, to the airport, where the flight was delayed and I didn't have a seat In the end I got a bump. Which meant I was very late into New York, but that I got upgraded so slept on the plane a bit, which was nice.
And Opera 9 is out. I like it - I have been using it for quite a while aready. My favourite things are standards improvements - XSLT, good SVG, the WHAT WG-specified Audio() thing and a handful of other minor stuff, plus widgets, BitTorrent, the source editor, and the error console (which provides debug information for all knds of things).
Liking the source editor surprised me. I don't normally like to edit source (I prefer to use Amaya for HTML and SVG since it makes nice clean code and leaves me to think about content) but being able to test quick stuff easily is nice.
It's been a hard week. I'm looking forward to relaxing a little (in part by working on some of the cool stuff for Opera 10 )
On the way there we were delayed 5 hours - first by a weather problem, then, when we got in the plane and were taxiing to the runway, the engine flared as they started it. Passengers in the back saw the flames and freaked out, to the point that we had to go back to the terminal and change from one perfectly good plane to another. So I was extremely tired when I got there.
I presented widgets. Being extremely tired, I had them on a USB stick rather than copying across to the machine we were presenting on - a Mac, also using Parallels to show windows. Big mistake. First, the USB stick was taken out of the machine so I couldn't find my cool in-development previews at the crucial moment
When I did get going, Parallels had done something wierd and we had no keyboard (I was using keyboard-controlled widgets) so I switched to the Mac native. In the end it worked out ok.So I left the party and went back to New York. Well, to the airport, where the flight was delayed and I didn't have a seat
In the end I got a bump. Which meant I was very late into New York, but that I got upgraded so slept on the plane a bit, which was nice.And Opera 9 is out. I like it - I have been using it for quite a while aready. My favourite things are standards improvements - XSLT, good SVG, the WHAT WG-specified Audio() thing and a handful of other minor stuff, plus widgets, BitTorrent, the source editor, and the error console (which provides debug information for all knds of things).
Liking the source editor surprised me. I don't normally like to edit source (I prefer to use Amaya for HTML and SVG since it makes nice clean code and leaves me to think about content) but being able to test quick stuff easily is nice.
It's been a hard week. I'm looking forward to relaxing a little (in part by working on some of the cool stuff for Opera 10
)
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Dennis-Hawks # Saturday, June 24, 2006 12:34:54 PM
Wow! tell us more, please!
But if your NDA does not allow you to do it, we'll just wait!
Simon Houstonshoust # Saturday, June 24, 2006 3:00:03 PM
Charles McCathieNevilechaals # Monday, July 3, 2006 7:16:48 PM