Ask Jon a Question, Weekend

This thread will be open over the weekend and will be your last chance to submit a question the community will vote for Jon to answer on Tuesday!

Do you wear briefs of boxers ?



yea I really wanna know

Do you think that javascript fixes through browser.js have made major websites like GMail less likely to fix their websites themselves, and puts the burden on Opera to fix things for them?

Does God exist?

office in Russia? Not in such big and expensive cities as Moscow and St.Petersburg, but some smaller in Murmansk region, somewhere closer to Norway

Are you ever going to make opera compatible with popular toolbars such as the yahoo toolbar and the neopets toolbars?


pleas i need to know this question


like the popular browser IE & firefox!

Will Opera Mini 5 revolutionary change mobile web experience?

Is it possible to force Micro$oft to ship Windows with Opera and other Browsers?

seems my question has been overlooked:
What are the secrets behind the lack of an S60-version of an up to date Opera Mobile version (9.5) and is a solution in sight?

Originally posted by johannes96:

Are you ever going to make opera compatible with popular toolbars such as the yahoo toolbar and the neopets toolbars?

This is nothing Opera can do. This is Yahho's task.

Have you been to Africa ever ?

Originally posted by Hades32:

Originally posted by johannes96:

Are you ever going to make opera compatible with popular toolbars such as the yahoo toolbar and the neopets toolbars?

This is nothing Opera can do. This is Yahho's task.

okay...i mean it's the only thing what are missing not just yahoo toolbar google toolbar,Wot ( web of trust) also.well well

-> Opera has galleries for Widgets, Skins and even Toolbars. But nothing for UserJS. Any pirticular reason behind this?
->Tell us something about your ambitions while growing up. Were you always interested in technology? Did you enjoy programming?

It's painful for Opera user when some popular site is not fully functioning in hers favourite browser. Is this problem getting better or worse with todays sites?

"What is the process for determining development direction - ie. prioritizing & selecting new features & improvements, etc. to include in Opera browser"?

"What percentage of resources & workforce is allocated to all the various development areas (ie. bug fixing; new features; performance improvement; security; stability; media promotion)"?

will be opera for desktop supported by google gears?

do you ever visit the My.Opera members Blogs?

yes, I do want to know




I am a daily blogger

Will Opera Link functionality be expanded, and if so, when? E.g. synchronizing passwords/wand (with extra password for security, and possibility to remotely remove the passwords from all other linked applications through link.opera.com), rss feeds, settings and more?

What's your favorite Opera perk?

Hi,

Is it possible to include password syncing with Opera Link ? It'll be great if this is possible. This is one of the reason I am increasingly using Xmarks on Firefox when i move around my computers. However, I still prefer Opera and hope to see this feature if its possible!

Also, a simple download manager that can download multiple parts at one go would be nice too.

gecko

If you could change one thing about your job, what would it be and why?

Will Opera be first to fully support all of CSS2.1 and SVG1.1?

Two questions:

1. Will there be ICC color profile support?
2. Jon- if you could start all over again, would there be anything you would have done differently?

Repost:
Do you plan to release some kind of support for microformats detection, for instance in a way like FF extension Operator does?

Will the next release of Opera Desktop support new features of the Windows 7? Features such as: new taskbar integration, jumplists, Aero skin and multitouch gestures? It's a big opportunity to get ahead of Chrome, Fx and Safari - and grab some extra attention

Will there be a private browsing feature, if so will it be called Phantom Mode? If not what will it be called?

Who are these pretty northen girls on the top header? ;-)

I just love OPERA browser:) Decktop and operamini.
The best browser for my use.

What will OPERA do to open up IPhone for the OPERA browsers.

Apologies if this has already been answered, but why is Opera called Opera?

The turbo is great, I had very good use of at a hotell with a bad internet conection last night

However, what about privacy. OPERAs servers know all that I browse. What is OPERAS policy on that? And how do you secure the privacy?

Will the javascrpt engine "Carakan" going to be included in Opera 10 or in what later versions of Opera?

What month will Opera 10 Beta 1, Beta 2, RC1, and Final be released?

WHY NOT BE COMPATIBLE?

Opera has been my default browser for many years. However, lately I have been forced to switch to IE to be able to interact with a growing number of non-standards-compliant Web sites which use Microsoft-specific extensions.

As a programmer since 1965, I quickly learned not to beat my head against walls; specifically, sometime around 1966, I gave up insisting that MY code was perfect and that REALITY was defective.

What reasons do you have for refusing to force Opera developers to adapt to the reality of the Web today? Why are you not analyzing exactly what IE allows and making Opera allow the non-standard coding to work just as well on your far-superior browser? I would PAY YOU MONEY (or donate money -- I have always paid for shareware) for a license to use Opera anyway (it is that good) but I would think that even more people would be willing to do so if you made it the universally-compatible browser.

M. E. Kabay, PhD, CISSP-ISSMP
Associate Professor of Information Assurance
School of Business & Management
Norwich University, Vermont, USA

Originally posted by mekabay:

Why are you not analyzing exactly what IE allows and making Opera allow the non-standard coding to work just as well on your far-superior browser?

Have you by any chance ever read <a href="http://my.opera.com/hallvors/blog/">Hallvors miscoded blog</a>? If you had you would be aware that this is precisely what Opera attempt to do every single day. Being a programmer for well over 40 years might give you a concept of how incredibly complex something like this can be, but on the other hand it depends on your area of expertise - if it is purely in coding for a compiler you may not fully grasp the incredibly unpredictable dynamics of adaptive parsers when it comes to dealing with invalid code.

why you are not marketing properly in India for Opera?
torrentfreak , Yahoo india not opening properly on Opera ..what to do ??

When will we see a development of Opera for Symbian? Opera 8x doesn't work too well with my E90 and Opera Mini crashes the phone. I would love to be able to use Opera Link on my device.

I would gladly pay for an up-to-date version of Opera on my phone, although I understand that contracts with operators/carriers are the areas you are focusing on at the moment.

Help me activate my web email; even i'm log I can't email. Please note: You have not yet activated your account.

Help me activate my web email; even i'm log I can't email. Please note: You have not yet activated your account.

I'd like to ask what do you think about the Mobile web future?

does the deal btw Oracle and Sun Microsystem affect the Opera Mini development? is it a good or bad news?

do you look at the OperaMini forum sometimes?

shall the next Opera Mini release have a grid like navigation feature?

some Phone carriers did an iPhone data plan with a dedicated APN, why not an Opera data plan?

how do you feel being a David against Goliath, in the web environment I mean!


the last.....

pizza or spaghetti.. ?

ciao Jon, thanks!

Will Opera get a built-in Twitter client, to go with its built-in e-mail, feed and IRC clients? I use Opera as my one-stop communications hub.
Cheers, Tony.

My Opera is full of fans of the Opera browser, and several of Opera's employees are regular bloggers

What role do you see blogging play in the marketting of Opera?

Originally posted by starcatcher66:

Apologies if this has already been answered, but why is Opera called Opera?

The answer is here: http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/145/

BTW, Opera staff, please note that search doesn't work properly in at least those two places.
Search in the knowledge base of word "name" doesn't return the article even though the word is in the title. I guess it is because it searches by tags, but no real tags are defined for this and other articles.
The search on main page opera.com (bottom-right corner) doesn't work at all. After 1 minute of waiting for result, a page just reloads, no result shows up.
Please fix it.

Originally posted by abcoates:

Will Opera get a built-in Twitter client, to go with its built-in e-mail, feed and IRC clients? I use Opera as my one-stop communications hub.
Cheers, Tony.

What you mean a twitter client? I guess Twitter is just a web-page. So you can add it as a panel and with one click go back there and drop a line anytime you want.

EspenAO: How about, for the last round of questions, including only the ones that haven't been asked yet? There's so many of them it's hard to read them all carefully, and why ask for the fifth time about the same, making it harder to notice the fresh ones that didn't yet get a chance to be asked... I thought it was ment to work that way...

I submit only fresh questions:

1. Will Transfer manager get any update - with multipart-download, limiting of used bandwith and more useful features? It didn't get a single update for years. There are some wishlists on forums containing more very good ideas for improvements.

2. My question from this and this post has been overlooked. I will sum it up briefly.

The question is:
Do you work on giving users hints about useful Opera features from Opera interface - like "Tips panel" or "Tips widget" (installed by default) or else? Opera interface seems to be the most effective way, as few people look for features in help/on site.

Few more words of justification to consider:
Opera has hundreds of useful features but rarely anyone knows really many of them. And many fresh users drop Opera after few days (or hours) of trying it out, as they didn't notice anything special about its functionality.
The need to educate people how they can squeeze the most of Opera seems obvious. Help files and Opera web site are not enough for that.

Originally posted by Indyan:

-> Opera has galleries for Widgets, Skins and even Toolbars. But nothing for UserJS. Any pirticular reason behind this?
->Tell us something about your ambitions while growing up. Were you always interested in technology? Did you enjoy programming?

+1

- > This could be a solution for others software intregation with opera if userjs accept cross domain xmlhttprequest and preferences storage like widget, also if opera accept widget intregation with the browser like example minimize or places them to some toolbar in the opera.

- > There some functions hidden in opera that only the advance user editing opera .ini files can have access, like increase the color number in skin color scheme(its was nice if there a real color choose), audio player... Opera have plans to end them?

sorry bad english

Three mistakes you have done as Opera CEO you regretted the most.