Opera one-click setups emulate rival browsers

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Opera's one-click setups emulate other
browsers

Opera's one-click setups emulate other
browsers 07/14/2004 03:07 AM
Norwegian developer Opera Software announced on Tuesday the release of new one-click setups that customize the company's Opera browser so that it mimics the look and feel of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Apple's Safari or Mozilla's Firefox. The setups change Opera's skin, toolbars, menus and keyboard shortcuts, and the developer also offers a series of setups that open advanced Web developer capabilities. You can download the necessary files, which are free, from the Opera Software Web site, where the company also hosts a My Opera Community that features hundreds of user-made modifications to the browser.

IE flaw may boost rival browsers

IE flaw may boost rival browsers 06/28/2004 05:58 PM
Security researchers suggest that using Microsoft alternatives is one way to surf the Web worry-free.

OmniWeb, Opera update Web browsers

OmniWeb, Opera update Web browsers 05/12/2004 11:12 AM
The Omni Group and Opera Software have both provided updates to their respective Web browsers on Wednesday. OmniWeb 5.0 beta 6.1 simply updates the beta expiration date, although OmniWeb 5.0 includes many new features over its predecessor. Opera 7.5 adds Opera Mail, news and newsfeed features; Opera IRC chat; and Mac OS X integration with keychain, Safari bookmark importing, stored passwords and more.

Opera Telnet URI Handler Vulnerability
also applies to other browsers

Opera Telnet URI Handler Vulnerability
also applies to other browsers 05/13/2004 03:20 PM
Jannes (May 13 2004)

At Long Last, a True Space Opera. Turing
Opera Workshop releases teaser trailer
for new 3d sci-fi opera, Kai, Death of
Dreams.

At Long Last, a True Space Opera. Turing
Opera Workshop releases teaser trailer
for new 3d sci-fi opera, Kai, Death of
Dreams. 05/31/2004 02:13 PM
Scarborough, ME -- January 12, 2004 Turing Opera Workshop releases the first teaser trailer for their production of Richard deCostas 3d sci-fi opera, K'ai, Death of Dreams. The trailer, available on the production website, http://www.RicharddeCosta.com/KaiOpera, is a preview of the opera scheduled for release in February. The opera is being produced entirely in 3d computer graphics. [PRWEB Jan 13, 2004]

1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click,
More-Clicks - All Patented

1-Click, Short-Click, Long-Click,
More-Clicks - All Patented 04/27/2004 05:27 PM
theodp writes "Not to be outdone by Amazon's 1-Click patent, Microsoft snagged a patent from the USPTO Tuesday for a Time based hardware button for application launch, which covers causing different actions to occur depending upon whether a button is pressed for a short period of time, a long period of time, or multiple times within a short period of time. So does pressing car radio buttons for different periods of time to change or set stations constitute patent infringement?" What about double-clicking? Seems like a fair amount of prior art. I know my caller ID box requires a "double-click" to delete phone numbers. Also, I may not remember correctly, but I was under the impression that Apple's famous "one-button" mouse allows you to fake a right mouse click if you hold down the button.

Don't Nurse Old Hardware - Emulate It

Don't Nurse Old Hardware - Emulate It 08/04/2004 11:55 AM

Double Vision: Multi-Monitor Setups A
Plus

Double Vision: Multi-Monitor Setups A
Plus 10/31/2003 01:39 AM
When using multi-monitor displays, participants generated 10 percent more production, were 18 percent faster in errorless production and made 33 percent fewer errors than when using a single screen. By Ryan Geddes (Jacksonville Business Journal via MyAppleMenu)

Universities Building Internet Model to
Emulate Attacks

Universities Building Internet Model to
Emulate Attacks 11/05/2003 03:36 PM
Techfocus Nov 5 2003 3:21PM ET

U.S. Urges N.Korea to Emulate Libya
Nuclear Moves (Reuters)

U.S. Urges N.Korea to Emulate Libya
Nuclear Moves (Reuters) 02/16/2004 07:56 AM
Reuters - North Korea must take the initiative at six-country talks next week and promise, like Libya, to scrap its nuclear weapons program, a senior State Department official said Monday.

Overture Pay Per Click Case Study: The
“B to B” Pay-Per-Click Bargain

Overture Pay Per Click Case Study: The
“B to B” Pay-Per-Click Bargain 12/19/2004 03:14 PM
Overture Pay Per Click Case Study: The “B to B” Pay-Per-Click Bargain [PRWEB Dec 18, 2004]

Lost Per Click: Search Advertising &
Click Fraud

Lost Per Click: Search Advertising &
Click Fraud 07/29/2004 10:02 AM
Source: SearchDay - Click fraud -- the practice of clicking on a text advertisement served by a search engine for the sole purpose of forcing the advertiser to pay for the click -- is emerging as an important concern for...

Internal politics, MSI package
customization and process migration from
legacy installation setups

Internal politics, MSI package
customization and process migration from
legacy installation setups 01/01/2005 11:09 PM

Opera Skinned & Opera Directory
Traversal (Additional Details & a Simple
Exploit)

Opera Skinned & Opera Directory
Traversal (Additional Details & a Simple
Exploit) 11/12/2003 01:14 PM
S G Masood (Nov 12 2003)

Opera Software Announces The Opera
Browser for Windows Mobile

Opera Software Announces The Opera
Browser for Windows Mobile 08/31/2004 08:29 PM
Opera announces intention to produce a version ofr Microsoft Windows Mobile Software.

Click me! Click me! The Web as a
marketing device

Click me! Click me! The Web as a
marketing device 07/27/2004 04:23 PM
Source: Minnesota Lawyer - Developments like "pay-per-click advertising" are no panacea for lawyer marketing. Indeed, they risk creating an overall climate that could lead to reduced trust in lawyers in general and reinforce some popular stereotypes about lawyers....

Opera 7.50 preview and my Opera Journal

Opera 7.50 preview and my Opera Journal 12/23/2003 02:09 PM
A few days ago, Opera released an early Christmas Present for the avid group of people following the opera.beta newsgroup,...

Opera Releases Security Fix for Opera
6.x

Opera Releases Security Fix for Opera
6.x 03/20/2003 08:31 AM

Lasso Settings Migrator moves between
Lasso 5/6/7 setups

Lasso Settings Migrator moves between
Lasso 5/6/7 setups 06/10/2004 07:46 AM
Blue World Communications has released a free tool, Lasso Settings Migrator, that helps Lasso Professional 5, 6 or 7 users move their settings from one Lasso setup to another of the same data source or between an internal Lasso MySQL host and an external MySQL host. It can also export the settings from Lasso Professional 5 or 6 into a format that can be imported into Lasso Professional 7, which helps when upgrading servers or migrating from one server setup to another. You can download Lasso Settings Migrator from the Blue World Web site.

New Browsers

New Browsers 02/10/2004 02:49 AM
The Omni Group released OmniWeb 5.0b1. Apple released Safari 1.2.

Browsers? Yes, browsers

Browsers? Yes, browsers 06/16/2004 08:28 AM
Don't just bitch and moan about the Microsoft monoculture -- do something about it! Ditch your no-improvements-since-before-the-dotcom-boom Internet Explorer Web browser. You'll be affected by fewer viruses and you'll discover that software didn't have to stop dead in its tracks in 1997. I've always been partial to Opera, a great little browser out of Scandinavia, available in free (ad-supported) or paid versions. But if you're allergic to ads and don't feel like paying a paltry sum for the piece of software you probably use the most, there is also an entirely free browser that is much, much better than IE: the open-source Mozilla Firefox has just released its "0.9" version. The numbering suggests it's not "done" yet, but the Mozilla people are just hugely conservative with their labeling. Firefox is ready for prime time, from what I can tell, and it's super: fast, compact and full of features you just can't get from Microsoft. It's also available on all the major platforms (Windows, Linux, OSX).

Browsers That Aren't Browsers

Browsers That Aren't Browsers 09/08/2004 04:52 AM
Thanks to the WebKit technology built into Mac OS X Panther, it's become much easier for software developers to create applications that are web-savvy. In this article, we thought we'd take a look at a few of them. By Giles Turnbull, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

MS to Change XP to Allow Other Browsers

MS to Change XP to Allow Other Browsers 01/23/2004 02:26 PM
"Microsoft agreed to a government demand that it eliminate a feature of its Windows XP operating system that overrides competitors' Web browsers, the Justice Department said."

Browsers fight it out

Browsers fight it out 07/13/2004 12:24 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Mon Jul 12, 06:29 pm GMT

Three LDAP Browsers for the Asking

Three LDAP Browsers for the Asking 06/01/2004 09:47 PM
Internet.com Jun 2 2004 2:29AM GMT

Research Browsers

Research Browsers 04/09/2004 03:59 PM
Research Browsers
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_zillman_archive .html#106241931557183353

I have updated my September 1, 2003 posting on Research Browsers with a number of new visualization browsers both in the search as well as in the business areas.

When Browsers Grow Up

When Browsers Grow Up 01/02/2005 09:25 PM
For 25 years, I've preached the superiority of the PC as an application platform, but times change and reconsideration is in order. The web browser and the infrastructure of the World Wide Web is on the cusp of bettering its aging cousin, the desktop-based graphical user interface for common PC...

XSLT, Browsers, and JavaScript

XSLT, Browsers, and JavaScript 02/05/2003 07:24 PM
Bob DuCharme, in this month's Transforming XML column, shows us how to include JavaScript in the HTML result tree of XSLT transformations.

Load XML in Gecko browsers

Load XML in Gecko browsers 07/15/2004 05:32 AM
CNET Jul 15 2004 10:13AM GMT

Tab to select menus in Mac browsers

Tab to select menus in Mac browsers 06/05/2005 11:57 PM
I have repeatedly finding myself turning to the otherwise unused Windows box on my desktop for filling in online forms. The primary reason has been the Tab behaviour in Web forms: on Windows, you can tab between text fields, menus, radio buttons, et al; on Safari/Firefox on Mac, you skip the menus entirely and have to reach for the mouse and click. And this contextual switch is costly.

Now apparently this is "fixed" by enabling System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Full keyboard access: "In windows and dialogs, press Tab to move the keyboard focus between: "Text boxes and lists only." Mea culpa.

I thought I'd clicked that long ago to no effect and a double-check finds that I was right. Despite the label "...and lists," it's only when you select "All controls" that tabbing to menus actually works in web forms. Mea culpa. Label culpa.

Start-up looks to add pluck to browsers

Start-up looks to add pluck to browsers 05/24/2004 10:51 AM

Flash Plugin for Browsers 7.0.25

Flash Plugin for Browsers 7.0.25 05/29/2004 06:16 AM
Macromedia Flash plugin for Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, and Konqueror.

IE accounts for 95% of browsers - survey

IE accounts for 95% of browsers - survey 12/17/2002 12:43 PM
Nineteen out of 20 surfers use IE as a browser, with Netscape a very distant second, and alternative browsers restricted to use among a small tech savvy niche, according to Web analytics outfit OneStat.com.

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Yet another back/forward key for some
browsers

Yet another back/forward key for some
browsers 05/03/2004 10:44 AM
When you have an internet browser open and you hit a backspace key on keyboard, it will go back one page (hit twice - two pages etc.). It seems to work at least with Safari, IE and Opera under 10.3.3. [robg adds: I thought w...

XML Error Handling in Web Browsers

XML Error Handling in Web Browsers 01/19/2004 12:39 AM

I've been following the topic of XML error handling on Mark Pilgrim's blog with great interest. Go read this blog entry. Done? Good. Now go read this blog entry.

Safari has draconian XML error handling. If the file isn't well-formed, Safari won't display it. Mozilla does the same, which should come as no surprise, since the two browsers use the same open-source XML parser (expat).

I fall squarely into the draconian camp and agree with Tim Bray. Fully half of the bugs I receive in WebCore are not bugs at all, but are essentially differences in error handling and error recovery between Safari and the dominant Web browser, WinIE. None of these issues occur with XML.

If we lived in a world where browsers could refuse to display malformed content (with useful error notification of course so that authors could easily repair their content), then all of these "bugs" would simply disappear. I could focus my efforts on real DOM and CSS bugs, and not have to waste my time emulating the behavior of WinIE.

Relaxing restrictions on well-formedness is a slippery slope, and where does it end? Consider all the "helpful" rules that exist in HTML today thanks to early versions of Netscape and WinIE. Did you know that any h1-h6 tag can close any other h1-h6 tag? Try it. Open an h1, type some text and then put in a close h2. It will close up the h1 in WinIE and Mozilla. (I haven't yet fixed this "bug" in Safari.) Try specifying a close tag for a paragraph by itself. You'll get an empty paragraph in Safari, Mozilla, and WinIE.

Of course the most complicated error recovery problem is residual style, which I have blogged about at length. This "helpful feature" (note the sarcasm) allows you to accidentally mis-nest style tags like the italic and bold tags and basically treat HTML more like a stream of "on/off" states than an actual tree structure. This feature is more a by-product of primitive browsers from the 90s that didn't have true DOMs than an actual intended error recovery system.

There's also the missing quotes problem, e.g., leaving a close quote off a link href. Browsers employ complicated heuristics to try to match up unclosed quotes that depend on the number of quotes in the document, their positions, and other factors. Safari doesn't really handle this problem that well yet, and it shouldn't have to.

The whole reason nearly all Web pages on the Internet are malformed is because browsers let Web page authors get away with it. As long as browsers are permissive in their error handling and recovery, Web authors will continue to produce invalid Web pages, because they won't even have any idea the pages they are authoring are invalid!

People in the error recovery camp then suggest ideas like icons in the status bar, or error messages dumped to some obscure console, but the average Web designer isn't going to know or care about validation as long as WinIE displays the Web site adequately. The only way you can make the average Web designer care is to get in his face with the obvious errors. The browser has to make a face and refuse to eat the swill that is being force-fed to it, or the average designer is simply going to shrug and say, "Well, close enough."

The crux of the problem with implementing true error recovery is that it must be unambiguous. Every Web browser has to recover from malformed content in precisely the same way. This means that in order for browsers to be tolerant of malformed content, there would have to be a specification regarding how to handle all possible malformations. This is virtually impossible to specify, so why waste time and energy on it when creating well-formed XML files is so ridiculously simple?

I think people who don't work on Web browsers for a living have no concept of just how malformed the Web really is, so let me state this as clearly as I can:

The #1 reason that HTML pages render incorrectly in alternate browsers is because of differences in error handling and recovery.

Mozilla Browsers Gains on IE

Mozilla Browsers Gains on IE 07/10/2004 09:25 PM

My Computer: Alternative Browsers

My Computer: Alternative Browsers 08/01/2004 12:25 AM
G4 Tech TV Aug 1 2004 5:09AM GMT

Pressure SAP to support other browsers

Pressure SAP to support other browsers 07/07/2004 09:00 PM
If you're an SAP customer, partner or supplier, it's time to put the pressure on SAP to support browsers other than Internet Explorer. Details here....

75% of Network Connections Not From
Browsers

75% of Network Connections Not From
Browsers 01/02/2004 01:13 AM

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