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Opera: The media=all of the industry!

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I think Molly just came up with a new slogan for Opera:

"Opera: The media=all of the industry!"

Originally posted by Molly:

Opera on your desktop, your phone, in your truck, on your Wii and coming soon: television. We are the media="all" of the industry.

For some background, look up CSS Media Types: "all - Suitable for all devices."

Since Opera probably runs on more types of platforms, devices and operating systems than any other browser, this slogan seems fitting for Opera. Geeky, but fitting.

JavaScript performance? What about layout performance?

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Performance benchmarks are all the rage these days, but everyone seems to be focusing narrowly on artificial benchmarks that basically tell you how certain browsers perform at the particular JavaScript functions chosen for those particular benchmarks.

It's surprising that there is little or no focus on other, perhaps more relevant performance aspects of modern pages. For example, how do browsers perform when it comes to dynamically changing the style of a page (CSS)?

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