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Flock’s Will Pate offers congrats on my new job at Opera

Published October 25th, 2006 7:03 PM EDT By Daniel Goldman

Will Pate, the Community Ambassador at Flock (the social web browser based on Firefox), sent in his congratulations on my new job at Opera as a Technical Evangelist.

He also emailed me asking whether both the Flock and Opera communities can work together on some project. Sure we can.

I think what’s important to Flock and Opera users is that web developers follow open standards. Our communities could work on promoting better standards support to web developers.

I know David Storey, our Chief Web Opener at Opera, and his team are working hard on this issue – but there’s too much work for just a few people. We need do to more promotion of open standards support to web developers. We all benefit from it.

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  1. 1 Sohil Oct 26th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
    using Flock Flock 0.7.99 on Windows Windows XP

    Well I hope the Opera and Firefox community can work together too.

    But atleast until Asa is at Mozilla, I doubt this will happen.

  2. 2 FlatlinerUK Oct 27th, 2006 at 8:56 am
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    I prefer to see Opera distance itself from Firefox wherever possible. The last thing the Opera community needs is the kind of fanatical zealotry following that Firefox gets. IMHO Firefox gets its support by being anti-MS. Opera gets its support from being small, fast, secure and web standards compliant, which is why I use Opera.

  3. 3 blah99 Oct 27th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0b2 on Windows Windows XP

    Help on a project huh? I bet it won’t be open source, since Opera has never fully supported the ideals of the FSF.

  4. 4 Sohil Oct 28th, 2006 at 9:53 am
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0 on Windows Windows XP

    BTW Daniel, Did you interview Asa anytime ?

    I think we would love to hear him rant about meaningless **** (when you’re free maybe) :)

  5. 5 FoxFireFan Oct 29th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
    using Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows Windows XP

    Opera has never fully supported the ideals of the FSF.

    Neither does Firefox (see the Mozilla vs. Debian/Ubunto logo/trademark controversy), but whatever… ;)

  6. 6 Viggen Nov 4th, 2006 at 8:34 am
    using Flock Flock 0.7.7 on Windows Windows XP

    I’ve been an Opera user since version 5 and a Flock user from its very early beginnings. Using both complementary just rocks, no other app can beat this couple. Cross integrating features ? Heck why not ?

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