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Opera 10.6 - HTML5, and then some
- pornel 16y agoHopefully appcache support will be used to make Dragonfly start instantly (they haven't added manifest https://dragonfly.opera.com/app/ https://dragonfly.opera.com/app/ yet).
- axod 16y ago> "Bing is the new Speed Dial search engine" Eugh
- ComputerGuru 16y agoI'm using it now, and Google is still the real default for everything else (search bar, etc.)
- stuntmouse 16y agoMicrosoft is really throwing money at search lately. Bing is everywhere (Colbert, iOS 4, "Filomena", "Search Overload"). How long can they keep it up for the returns they're getting?
- Freaky 16y agoThe default was Ask Jeeves, so not like it's a huge step down :)
- powrtoch 16y agoOne of my favorite little tweaks using opera is making Wikipedia the speed dial search engine. I've already got google up top, so having a wikipedia box every time I open a new tab pretty much accounts for 100% of my search needs. As for bing, I don't plan on using it so... who cares?
- karatchov 16y agowell you can simply type "w" then your search in the address bar
- CoryMathews 16y agoI think I may be the exception but i have never even used the speed dial search. I only use the main url bar. g searchstring and i search google. y searchstring and i search yahoo. i have also made some for other sites such as stackoverflow s searchstring and i search SO. so imo its not a big deal who the default is, with the exception of the main url bar default search.
- endtime 16y agoI never use it either, and I'm also far more likely to use Bing than Ask. So, unless I'm also an exception, complaining about this is truly silly.
- iamelgringo 16y agoWhat I love about Opera, is that they develop and release features that show up in other browsers like Firefox 6 months to a year later.
- natmaster 16y agoAlthough that may be true, all of these features, with the exception of WebM, are in a RELEASED version of Firefox (3.6), and WebM is also already in the developer prerelease (nightly builds) of Firefox 4 (the next version). Just had to http://xkcd.com/386/ http://xkcd.com/386/ this one.
- paulitex 16y agoSorry, this is just wrong. I am currently working on a drag-and-drop uploading tool, and would really like to use html5 to do it. The new interfaces involved are the drag and drop (http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/dnd.html#dnd http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...) and File (http://www.w3.org/TR/file-upload/ http://www.w3.org/TR/file-upload/) APIs. Unfortunately, everyone except for Firefox have been slow in implementing the File interface, leaving me with a situation where the only shipping browser where standards-based code runs is Firefox 3.6 (fwiw, it works in Webkit nightly and Chrome 6 dev). In shipping webkit (safari 5, chrome 5), File is implemented (which gives meta data about a native file) but not FileReader (which gives the actual data) (btw if someone knows of a non-standard way to get the data from the File object in shipping webkit please let me know, i just want this to work. FF had a non-standard getAsBinary() method on the File object before FileReader was implemented, for example). Opera doesn't even have File implemented. Again, FF is the only shipping browser that native os-to-webapp uploading drags work in a standards compliant way. Give them some credit.
- iamelgringo 16y agoI'm not saying that FF or other browsers doesn't innovate. I'm just saying that I've seen tons of features that have started in Opera that end up implemented in other browsers.
- CoryMathews 16y ago
- w-ll 16y agoi just want geolocation in opera mini. To many people that use my web app are using from opera mini and I have to tell them to go to the phones default browser. (Hate doing that)