Comments on: 5 Wishes for Browsers… er Opera

By: Internet Explorer Rethinks its Usability | The Marketing Technology Blog

Internet Explorer Rethinks its Usability | The Marketing Technology Blog — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:56:52 +0000

[...] course, I still believe the browser who will stomp the competition first will be the browser that introduces the most ‘out of the box’ user interface components. Without any requirement for a download, if I could program in a datagrid, HTML editor, calendar [...]

By: Hallvord R. M. Steen

Hallvord R. M. Steen — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:35:19 +0000

Mart, the hypothesis about Opera being the culprit needs some testing – so sorry about the comment spam

Doug, maybe you have some “comment security” plugin that thinks the comment is a cross-site scripting attack?

By: Thoughts on Design » 5 Opera Wishes

Thoughts on Design » 5 Opera Wishes — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:56:09 +0000

[...] check out the wish lists at Modifoo and Douglas Karr, they’re both quite [...]

By: modifoo

modifoo — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:25:41 +0000

…maybe it is because he is using Opera?

Btw, the trackback does not seem to be working – on my “5 wishes” from yours… Could this be related (I guess I just outed myself as a non-programmer?)

By: Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:13:14 +0000

Hallvord,

I’m working on why your comment isn’t displaying… some bug somewhere! Argh!

Doug

By: Hallvord R. M. Steen

Hallvord R. M. Steen — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:52:28 +0000

Very good list, and the last point is especially thought provoking. http://dev.opera.com/ exists and has some good content but how is anyone supposed to find it, eh? The good news is that many of your wishes might happen sooner than you think - what about

WHATWG's datagrid spec
WHATWG's video spec and an Opera preview version with VIDEO support.
Not entirely clear to me what you had in mind with the posting and retrieval statements, but the contentEditable spec would supply most of the "plumbing".
Charting is an interesting wish that AFAIK isn't on any roadmap, but what about Opera's decent SVG support? With a little bit of scripting, you'll get your charts.

By: modifoo

modifoo — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:12:44 +0000

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

I totally agree that Opera has to fiind a different approach than “simply” pleasing the users. That way they get the (maybe) best browsers, but only 5% are actually using it. They need a different approach, and since they don’t have a Microsoft leverage, they have to make up with creativity.
I like your idea about making developers feel welcomed. Very good point.