mirrorbird(04:10:45)
and if you did it for some small machine you'd then realise "this platform doesn't have 30 MB to spare for Coca-Cola fucking around with the 'shadow DOM'"
mirrorbird(04:08:05)
the insane proliferation of javascript is what makes it very hard to do a browser these days. CSS is hard but JS is JS-hard.
mirrorbird(04:07:06)
that's hilarious. RISC OS -- Amiga -- Atari -- and then at the bottom, "Currently very basic, the Windows port is really just a demonstration at the moment."
mirrorbird(04:06:40)
hey, look, that runs on the Amiga too.
mirrorbird(04:05:42)
yes, it's good to have a focus. but like i say: removing basics like bookmarks -- you shouldn't release that phase. everyone was steaming, justifiably
Accidental(04:05:01)
The continued development of all these features in Opera might have been too costly, leading to the stripping-down of the product.
mirrorbird(04:02:27)
but lots of other features were very good, and they stripped it down so bad -- it didn't even have bookmarks for a while (!!!), so then i moved to Chrome.
mirrorbird(04:02:12)
a media player? haha, it did get a bit bloaty. but i used to read my mail in Opera for years (real client, not www) -- it also had a very broken irc, hardly usable.
mirrorbird(04:01:37)
"The beta of Unite includes a half-dozen Opera-made services that include file sharing, a media player, photo sharing, a Facebook-style "wall" dubbed "Fridge" where users can leave notes and a Web server."