The menace of the Opera

After reading: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/01/21/compatibility-and-ie8.aspx and http://www.alistapart.com/articles/beyonddoctype I can do nothing but point to:


http://www.opera.com/company/jobs/opening.dml?id=67

http://www.opera.com/company/jobs/opening.dml?id=53

We will need more people to debug shitty IE behaviour. We already have top notch people working in these departments, but they want more friends :-)

Going to the Web Directions North conferance in Canada?
If so check here

The fuzz is all over the place.. and it feels like the twilight zone somehow....




Anyways Håvard put up a nice FAQ:

http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/show.dml/1582238

Uploaded some pictures :-)

Basically we found a way to make extra $$. Remove something that will make a group of users scream out loud then offer the poor guys working in frontline some money to put it back so they wont be slapped by the users for too long. So Håvard offered us some cash to put back the viewbar (disabled by default, but available in the appearance dialog) and also to offer the old keyboard shortcuts in the keyboard setup dialog.

We will make changes later on that people won't like. Especially when we are broke and need more money from Håvard :-p

So it seems Alastorhttp://www.avencius.nl/?q=node/597Alastor tagged me and I have to make a post about my top 5 feature wishes for opera.
I must admit this is not easy for me as I never have the "user mind" when I use Opera.. I always look for bugs. That might reflect my choices a bit :-)

1.Automatic crash reporting
2.Developer tools
3.Auto update and auto install of plugins ondemand
4.Updated GUI
5.Improved import/export of settings

So my turn to tag folks:
Non-Troppo
Csant
Shoust
Johan Borg
Tommy

Many of you are eager to get some more info on Kestrel.
We are planning to share more about what we are doing, but in the meanwhile Yngve shows of EV in Kestrel here:

http://my.opera.com/yngve/blog/show.dml/1095339
http://my.opera.com/yngve/blog/2007/06/19/it-aint-ev-til-its-ev-all-ev

First I want to congratulate Apple and their 1 class marketing wizard guru Steve Jobs that could probably sell sand to people living in inner Tchad on the Beta release of Safari on windows
First they claim they are the first to make a fullfledged browser on a phone. Well ya'll know thats far from true..
But he says so so it must be true..
Then they release Safari on Windows.. Something I think is good.. Safari is very good at standards and very cooperative when it comes to OTW :-)

Now regarding speed, Jobs presented a quick Ibench test and everyone was just wooow... They are soo fast..
And yes.. They are really fast in web content presenting the past according to the Benchmark..
Maybe about time Web 2.0 enters apple's HQ?
Web pages are no longer just tables+images and some text. Now you got heavy interaction with tons of "Ajax"


Enough rant about skewed reality: Ibench+Safari+numbers=inaccurate..
Wanna know why? Read on here:
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/safaribenchmarks.html

Most of the Desktop Team went to the Netherlands.. I was not able to join as I already had planned a trip to Paris with my gf, a friend and his gf.. Well it ended up being only me and my gf as my friends mother became sick..
Now we have been here since thursday and only had one day of sun.. It has been raining raining and raining :-(

We have seen the attractions all tourist have to see when in Paris: La Fayette, Zara, H&M and Au Printemps..

Oh we also saw the minor attractions like The Eiffel Tower ( I was supriced to see it was not made of elefant bones btw), The Louvre Museum, Notre-Dame (The Hunchback was not available for pictures, but we had a chat about war, peace etc.. He was actually a very nice guy), sacre coeur etc..


I gotta say I really like this small town.. but next time I come here I really hope I get more sun as I like to walk around in parks etc...

One thing that strikes me as weird when walking down champs elysees hours after it stopped raining the other day some people were still using the umbrella... It just looked weird as it wasnt just one or two it was like .. plenty...


Will see if I can upload pictures tomorrow...

Oki so flash is evil we all know that, and now Microsoft will pollute us even more with a new flashy thing:

http://news.com.com/Microsoft+sheds+light+on+Flash+rival/2100-1012_3-6176022.html?tag=nefd.lede

Why can't people just use svg+canvas+videoelement+audioelement etc? :-p

So who do you think will conqueror (contaminate the most) da wold width web?