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Yes, and it also had an IRC client. Having lots of features unrelated to web browsing did not make it better.
by akjainaj 10y ago
Yes, and it also had an IRC client. Having lots of features unrelated to web browsing did not make it better.
- manojlds 10y agoBut it was better. The UX was way too good, even if things like standards implementation weren't great.
- digi_owl 10y agoI seem to recall that back then Opera stood shoulder to shoulder with Mozilla about standard correctness.
- Macha 10y agoIirc, Opera was actually quite ahead of Firefox in passing acid3, though can't remember if they were first or if WebKit was
- xorcist 10y agoIt probably helped that Håkon Lie, who proposed/invented CSS, worked at Opera.
- gsnedders 10y agoUntil ~2010ish, Opera was per-se pretty much competitive (after that, the other vendors were implementing new specs quicker), but there were some notable differences, especially around places where specs allowed multiple behaviours and every vendor except for Opera had converged on one behaviour a decade earlier (rounding of CSS values comes to mind here, but was far from the only case), and that caused more and more problems and web-developer pain as the web became increasingly complex.
- digi_owl 10y agoI seem to recall that the Mozilla suite had a irc client as well.
- smhenderson 10y agoThey did and still do. The SeaMonkey[0] product from Mozilla comes with all the components that Netscape^ shipped with. A browser, an email client, an IRC client and an WYSIWIG editor for HTML called Composer. [0] http://www.seamonkey-project.org/start/ http://www.seamonkey-project.org/start/ ^ version 4 I think but maybe earlier versions too
- u801e 10y agoThunderbird can also connect to IRC (as well as XMPP). It also offers choices of Google Talk, Twitter, and Yahoo.