Megan — Mon, 03 May 2004 13:15:08 +0000

What polls are you referring to?

eeek — Sun, 02 May 2004 04:53:59 +0000

Have you tried voting in one of the polls on cnn.com?

Abhishek Reddy — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 05:45:33 +0000

Megan wrote: Abhi - I'd really rather not start an argument about which browser is best here. IMO, Mozilla and Opera (and I'm assuming Safari as well) are so similar in terms of standards support and user interface that there's no point in arguing about it. Any differences are mainly a matter of personal preference. Just because I personally prefer Opera doesn't mean that I think all other browsers are no good. Mozilla is great. Use it, by all means.

Not to worry. I wasn't trying to start one either. I was comparing them simply because I use Mozilla... only re-evaluating my position.

Megan wrote: The silly thing about these CSS improvements is that they're effectively useless. Opera and Mozilla support (almost) all of CSS 2. Great. So what? Can't use it anyway. Until the usage stats improve or IE makes some drastic (and unplanned) improvements were stuck where we are.

Not entirely true. If my audience is people who use, say, Linux, then IE is simply out of the question. Opera becomess a major player, afaiac. This is now the case with at least one site I'm making (blog). But I agree that, in general, it doesn't matter all that much.

Besides, I'd still like to know, out of interest, what's changed. Always helps to be informed.

s0da — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 16:49:27 +0000

yeah i use IE because it's easier to open up and looks good. i use firefox to validate my code. its a bish to open up cause it takes some time; i dunno what that's about.

i guess i base my opinion on usage and looks.

Megan — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 16:17:15 +0000

Abhi - I'd really rather not start an argument about which browser is best here. IMO, Mozilla and Opera (and I'm assuming Safari as well) are so similar in terms of standards support and user interface that there's no point in arguing about it. Any differences are mainly a matter of personal preference. Just because I personally prefer Opera doesn't mean that I think all other browsers are no good. Mozilla is great. Use it, by all means.

The silly thing about these CSS improvements is that they're effectively useless. Opera and Mozilla support (almost) all of CSS 2. Great. So what? Can't use it anyway. Until the usage stats improve or IE makes some drastic (and unplanned) improvements were stuck where we are.

Megan — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:54:27 +0000

Opera has had a mail client for a long time now. I don't know how far back, I just started using it with v. 7. It's very unique, and I like it a lot. Very different method of organizing messages.

s0da — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 04:43:51 +0000

does IE have a notes extension? this would be a great addition to having googletoolbar.

Abhishek Reddy — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 04:05:40 +0000

Last I checked, Opera had a couple of gaping holes in CSS, which put Mozilla in front.

I wish that changelog went into more detail. I'd like to know specifically what's new with CSS and Javascript support.

The new UI arrangement looks good. Kind of reminds me of Firefox's UI. Firefox also has a notes extension, which I believe functions similarly.

I find it a little odd that Opera is including a chat and mail client now, and Mozilla is branching off with Firefox and such.

Anyway, trust me to compare it with Mozilla. /me goes off to download the Linux Opera. (Too bad it's Qt though.)