Comments on: Opera takes the lead with AJAX support among browsers: More efficient streaming

By: matt

matt — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:10:38 +0000

no sound with opera in vista for me either.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:02:55 +0000

Howdy,

It looks like this is the correct place to ask.

I’ve written an AJAX “low-level driver” that works on IE 5 and above, plus all modern browsers. It will not work on Opera 7 or below.

I’d like to know if there is a way to generate an XMLHTTPRequest object in these older browsers, or if I should just tell people with older browsers to upgrade if they want to use my AJAX tool.

By: Daemon

Daemon — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:22:14 +0000

Opera absolutely slaughters it’s competition in speed, size and features. It packs a heck of a lot into a surprisingly small amount of space. You need to stack a dozen or so extensions onto FF to come within spitting distane of Opera… and that’s just for browser functionality, never mind all the other stuff.

Opera’s zoom function is godlike – not only does it zoom text and images, it also zooms flash animations (great in fullscreen mode when watching webcartoons for example), and does a fairly decent job of keeping the formatting stable when zooming aswell.

The compatability thing remains an issue, but unless you make extensive use of the specific sites it has issue with, that’s got real problems, it’s rarely an issue. The strange thing is that Opera is one of the only browsers to pass the Acid2 web standards compatabiilty test (I’ve been told only one other browser has done so).

By: DunSun

DunSun — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 07:18:23 +0000

Hmm Opera is perfect as for it’s speed but it really suffers from lot of sites incompatibilities. For example google reader and others!

By: netbjarne

netbjarne — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:11:48 +0000

Sounds promising that work has gone into TinyMCE compability. Opera 9 is absolutely my favorite browser, no one beats Operas unique zoom feature that actually zooms ALL content, not just text. But problems with TinyMCE forces me to use Firefox.

By: Meeep

Meeep — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:58:35 +0000

That’s what so great about choice, Keith! You can choose to use those lessers browsers, and no one is going to force you to use Opera!

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:40:01 +0000

Despite so many people claiming its excellent browsing capabilities and functionalities in Opera, I am still using IE and Firefox. Guess it will take a longer time than I thought to really convince myself to switch to Opera.

By: Opera X

Opera X — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 18:31:14 +0000

… Olli posted using Opera 9.02 …

Outdated already. Opera 10 is out, Olli is behind times:

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/09/05/opera-x-screenshot-syncing-more-features-on-the-way/

http://img57.imageshack.us/my.php?image=operax2vq9.png

By: Kurtz

Kurtz — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:54:03 +0000

Oh, we reinvented sockets. Seriously, will it even work through proxies and firewalls that have been developed for years around simple request/response http?

By: CrownedGriffin

CrownedGriffin — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:33:04 +0000

I don’t use Opera for youtube because of Vista is retarted and decided that Opera doesn’t get sound. =/ Something to do with the new program specific volume controls I suspect.

On MySpace I find that transparency is TOO transparent in Opera and Firefox (but looks fine in IE7). Does this happen on XP??
I’m not having any speed problems with MySpace.
I just did the friends re-arrangement thing using Opera with no problems.

GMail works correctly in Opera if I mask as Mozilla.

By: Drew Olanoff

Drew Olanoff — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 20:35:06 +0000

Hangs on connecting for us.

By: pee#

pee# — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 00:56:36 +0000

Oh, the chat is working here also.

By: pee#

pee# — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 00:56:07 +0000

The fullscreen in youtube doesn’t work most of the times, sometimes myspace is very slow, for example drag n dropping the top favourites. I have no problem with trasparency (after disabling the smooth scrolling).

Lots of webmails doesn’t work properly in Opera, and lots of other websites. Not necessarily Opera’s fault.

By: CrownedGriffin

CrownedGriffin — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 23:33:46 +0000

The chat things is working fine for me…

Also, it’s quite rare that I ever run into a site that has compatibility issues with Opera. The biggest issue I have is idiots on myspace with transparency in their profiles, but Firefox suffers the same problem.

By: pee#

pee# — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 23:05:19 +0000

I love Opera but there are too many site incompatibility and issues (youtube, myspace – not just little buggy sites), so i don’t understand too much this work on innovation. Like implementing bittorrent and at the same time having a download manager without a working “resume”.