Just installed Opera...

[Robert]

Oh it seems lovely :D

One thing I hate about firefox is that images can take ages to load, even if the rest of the site is fine.

Do many sites support opera?

Is it secure?

I guess it is, but just wanted to check :)

[Mark]

Yeah, it's secure etc., and it's supposedly the most standards-compliant browser.

Anyway, it seems they just spat their dummy so have gone down in my estimation...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7143912.stm

I guess they do have a point about standards though.

[Daz]

MS have dug themselves a bit of a hole when it comes to standards imo. I think the day will come (if it hasn't already) where someone in MS decides that the standards are there for a reason and IE needs to comply. But lets say they release IE8 tomorrow and it's totally 100% standards compliant.... they'd break a very large proportion of websites in a stroke and piss of devs and end users alike.

It's gonna take a long time to get there, if/when they want to.