Opera grasps at straws with latest IE criticism
Submitted by srlinuxx on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 15:47.
Let me say from the outset that I was not a fan of Opera Software’s antitrust sabre-rattling a few months back over Microsoft’s lack of standards compliancy with its browser. But Opera’s latest complaints about Internet Explorer (IE) 8 make Opera look even more like a company that’s gone off the deep end.
Hakon Lie, the Chief Technology Officer of Opera, airs some of his dissatisfaction with how the new beta of Microsoft’s IE 8 handles the breaking of Web pages. Lie complains that Microsoft has compatibility mode turned on by default for Intranet sites (not Internet ones, mind you). with IE 8 Beta 2. And he really hates the breaking page icon that Microsoft displays next to the IE 8 address bar; he proposes the Acid-test smiley face instead.
From Opera’s e-mail to me on August 29:
Dillo/IE running intranet apps ? Why not Opera ? Konqueror ?
The handwriting is on the wall?
Browsers can do intranet apps.
Ulteo will be eclipsed by simple network sharing hdd, peer by peer/server client connection.
Ajax will change to commamdline cursor and workspace instead of web page or GUI and space for fill-in of data(email format).
Where will Drupal and phpbbs be? Let alone basic apache2 and MySQL?