{"id":724,"date":"2005-08-30T19:55:38","date_gmt":"2005-08-30T22:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=724"},"modified":"2006-02-13T18:57:56","modified_gmt":"2006-02-13T22:57:56","slug":"opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=724","title":{"rendered":"Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>&#8216;m one of the lucky people who managed to get the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betanews.com\/article\/Opera_Offers_Free_Browser_Licenses\/1125415098\">free Opera license key<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/community\/party\/\">Cheers to the Opera Dev. Team<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Testing it, I found out that I didn&#8217;t like the default &#8216;Opera look&#8217;: something I managed to reset to the Windows default as soon as I discovered the feature. I don&#8217;t like Opera&#8217;s &#8216;revolutionary e-mailer&#8217;: for some kind of reason, I can&#8217;t not imagine an e-mailer that <em>opens<\/em> right in the browser.\n<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of rendering flaws too, particularly in the forms parsing code (it seems). Some boxes are small, some of them are big. The biggest problem I have is with the addressbar when it&#8217;s focussed: for some kind of reason, the tab literally <em>tabs<\/em> to the next available control in the browser. In Firefox and Explorer, the Tab key goes to the<em>next entry<\/em> in the Autocomplete list. Building an Autocomplete like this is pretty hard: In RoundAbout I built an Autocomplete in a KeyUp event, &#8216;low-key-ly&#8217; called <a href=\"http:\/\/cvs.sourceforge.net\/viewcvs.py\/roundabout\/Phoenix%20Main\/FMMailOptions.pas?rev=1.5&#038;view=markup\">&#8216;Memo3KeyUp&#8217;<\/a>. Pay attention to the <em>FLineProces<\/em> flag that takes care of the very fast typers among us.\n<\/p>\n<p>That said: the scrolling is superb and beats Firefox. Also, would you take your girlfriend\/wife boyfriend\/husband to the Opera or Firefox? For now, I&#8217;ll keep Opera as a backup browser. Internet Explorer is <em>definitely<\/em> out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8216;m one of the lucky people who managed to get the free Opera license key. Cheers to the Opera Dev. Team. Testing it, I found out that I didn&#8217;t like the default &#8216;Opera look&#8217;: something I managed to reset to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=724\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}