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By reading a really good article about programming webpages working in different browsers correctly (mainly for IE and FF); I get the link to this page and this page.

The two pages about the Proprietary Tags from Netscape and IE.

Although all of this tags aren't used by new pages, there are enough old, not updated, pages which have these tags in use.

Opera want to be more compatible to other browsers (or lets say to webpages). To get a step further Opera should add these old, unpopular tags for downward compatibility!

The tags that are used in:
For netscape
<blink>
<ilayer>
<keygen>
<layer>
<multicol>
<nolayer>
<server>
<spacer>

For IE

<bgsound>
<comment>
<marquee>

From these 12 tags are only basefont; marquee and blink supported by Opera(I discovered in the documentation on opera.com). I think is is really poor. Why don't support the ofter tags? (I know that some goes/went really on your/mine nervs)

In a night session in front of my pc i learn to know what is gopher; wais and veronica.

A look back into history:
Gopher is a protocol invented in 1991. It became famous because of the difficult use of ftp. Gopher is like ftp but without any (general) login and with more information text like web-pages at the start of the www-web.

veronica is a search engine for the gopher-net

and wais was the precursor for the search engine veronica

Now back. I was very interested and started to search the net. but i found very quickly that there are only a few hundreds of servers, which support gopher. and (nearly) all pages are about the same thing: to get gopher alive and what is gopher.

On every gopher-page the same information: lynx is the best browser because of the full-support of gopher and the new version of gopher: gopher+ !
Mostly the Mozilla Firefox is the best choice, because it is a browser you have (mostly) already installed on your pc.
The MSIE doesn't support gopher because it was turned of by a security advisor, which could be turned on by a registry-hack.(IE7 doesn't support it any more!)

Opera does support gopher, but only by a proxy as an interpreter and so it is the worst choice.

Why does Opera doesn't support this old but small protocol? I mean, ok the market is not very big, but there are some cracks and nerds, which do play with this!
Opera is already an Internet suit and why doesn't support on protocol more and opera won't become really bigger that it is already (I know, opera isn't really big!). It couldn't be a problem to gt one programmer to learn opera what is gopher/+ by actual over 200 working people at opera!

I hope many people read this blog and get the interest of the people of opera!
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