From: Gerald Oskoboiny (gerald@impressive.net)
Date: Sat Dec 16 2000 - 01:40:25 PST
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 12:22:00PM +0100, H?kon Wium Lie wrote:
:
> http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=449249
>
> Browser wars, part two
>
> Dec 14th 2000
>
> From The Economist print edition
:
> Netscape claims that its software, called Gecko, is the most
> standards-compliant browser around. Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner,
> Opera's boss, makes a similar claim about his firm. The problem, he
> says, is that only 5% of web pages comply with W3C standards.
5% sounds awfully high to me. I would guess that less than 0.01%
of the pages on the web are valid HTML.
BTW, I just installed Opera 4b4 for Linux, and it is fantastic!
(this may be old news to some people, but I tried it a while ago
and it seems to have improved a lot in the meantime.)
The latest ns6/mozilla/galeon/etc's have been getting very close
to being usable enough that I can ditch ns4 forever, but they're
still not quite there yet. (earlier today I had an ns4 process
that was 600+ megs... almost a new record for me, I think.)
After using Opera for about half an hour and changing a few
config options, I'm very happy with it.
One thing I haven't gotten to work yet is this really useful
"edit this page" bookmarklet that I hacked up the other day:
http://impressive.net/people/gerald/2000/12/edit-bookmarklet.html
(causes netscape to spawn a new xterm with vi on the current document)
To use this I need to add a new mime type and handler, which I can't
get to work in Opera. (neither by File/Preferences/Applications
nor the "Unknown type" dialog: clicking "Associate..." doesn't do
anything, and after adding a type via Preferences and hitting
"Apply" then "OK", it just seems to disappear.)
I'll try surfing around the docs to see if there's a plaintext
config file I can edit somewhere.
Oh... and I haven't found a way to turn off MDI yet. :(
That's pretty much a show-stopper for me.
-- Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@impressive.net> http://impressive.net/people/gerald/
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