Re: Opera for Linux

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

> Sadly doesn't seem to make much difference how you compile it. I think
> it has something to do with the foul looking XPToolkit layer.

That's a price for cross-platform compatibility, s'often the same with stuff
like that. :(

> > I've never had netscape 4.6 bring X down on me. Ever. It's crashed, yes,
> > but just itself...so maybe you've got a dodgy setup? :)
> I've had both bring down my X server, on different X servers on different
> machines with different distros.

Depends how it crashes. I've certainly have it bring down my X server too,
although only on IRIX. 4Dwm goes too, bus errors all over the place, core
dumpy-dump.

> I really am not impressed, if Mozilla is thousands of man hours and Opera
> is a fraction of that why is Mozilla so bloated, buggy, slow, ugly,
> pointlessly skinnable etc.

Mozilla's not a browser though, in the strict sense of the word, remember ;)

> I have high hopes for mnemonic, but it's a long long way from being
usable.
> (www.mnemonic.org) At least the source tree can be downloaded in less than
> a week.

Does that include 9'600? If so, I'll take a look ;))

On another note, I'd love to see a replacement for Lynx. Had a look inside
it once, and it was very grotty. trace'ing pages also gives rise to much
internal nastiness, although, that said, it's probably not Lynx's fault.
Anyway who's ever tried to comply with HTML1.0+ will know what I mean - all
the stuff I do is now XHTML1, nothing else. I don't see any reason for
anyone not using it, in this modern world of validators etc.

Cheers,

Alex.


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