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Ask DLS: Speculate wildly about how Opera will "Reinvent the Web!"
I've seen some teases in my day, but this one ranks right up there with the best of them. In just a few days, Opera is going to unveil something they claim will reinvent the Web!!!
The image above is pretty much all the information that Opera has provided. Oh, yeah, it might be called Opera Freedom and there's one more cryptic clue buried in the page's source:
There's only one logical thing to do: speculate wildly!!
Give it your best shot, DLSers! What do you think this is all about? How will our web experienced be changed?
Could they have found a way to eliminate annoyances like domain squatting, Rickrolls, and social white noise?
Will Opera launch a service that sends super-intelligent puppies to your house to read web pages out loud to you?
Will the company introduce a blazing fast browser the likes of which the world has never seen, but which only displays the color red?
...Or will this turn out to be a whole lot of smoke and very little bang?
The image above is pretty much all the information that Opera has provided. Oh, yeah, it might be called Opera Freedom and there's one more cryptic clue buried in the page's source:
We start our little story with the invention of the modern day computer. Over the years, the computers grew in numbers, and the next natural step in the evolution was to connect the together. To share things...So what could this next evolution be? What is so amazing that Opera must spring it on an unsuspecting world at the crack of...well, the start of the business day...on Tuesday? Dear god, can the Internet even survive such a massive evolutionary change?!?!
There's only one logical thing to do: speculate wildly!!
Give it your best shot, DLSers! What do you think this is all about? How will our web experienced be changed?
Could they have found a way to eliminate annoyances like domain squatting, Rickrolls, and social white noise?
Will Opera launch a service that sends super-intelligent puppies to your house to read web pages out loud to you?
Will the company introduce a blazing fast browser the likes of which the world has never seen, but which only displays the color red?
...Or will this turn out to be a whole lot of smoke and very little bang?
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsTroyJun 12th 2009 9:59AM
Am I crazy.. or is June 16th a Tuesday?
Lee MathewsJun 12th 2009 10:00AM
Oh crap, they changed the web already! Now our posts says Monday!
But seriously, thanks for pointing that out. Brad and I talked about it being wrong and promptly got excited about the uber-puppies.
BufsabreJun 12th 2009 9:49AM
Opera officially says f* it and stops supporting html and css and only supports text based browsing from this point forward.
dswJun 13th 2009 12:35AM
Now that I'd like to see.
Would make web designers life a dream. No more hard work
der_tuxmanJun 12th 2009 10:01AM
I rather seldomly get what all that Opera stuff is about. "Innovation" fail (they don't even have an ad blocker), but lots of talking bullshit about their own greatness... oh well.
deleted accountJun 12th 2009 11:13AM
You apparently know very little to nothing about Opera. They have the best built-in ad blocker of any browser that I know of. http://help.opera.com/Windows/9.00/en/contentblock.html Opera is a great browser, but you have to spend time using it to become aware of its power.
HylicJun 12th 2009 11:13AM
Opera has built in content blocking (including adds, and yes you can use wildcards) you just right click on the page and select block Content from the menu.
Lee MathewsJun 12th 2009 11:13AM
Like...THE POWER OF HOLOGRAMS!
But seriously...yeah, it's got some good features.
der_tuxmanJun 12th 2009 11:49AM
Heck, you can't call this an appropriate ad blocker...!
HylicJun 12th 2009 5:34PM
Why not? have you actually ever used it? you can click on just one ad and it usually figures out the wildcard filter for all of them and if it doesn't you can edit it manually. As i understand it the reason they don't actually call it a "ad blocker" is for PR reasons.
der_tuxmanJun 12th 2009 5:40PM
What kind of a weird "PR" do they have then?!
HylicJun 12th 2009 5:45PM
They don't want to upset advertisers.
der_tuxmanJun 12th 2009 5:49PM
LOL I like that btw... anything which is not "pro Opera" is immediately voted down. Is that some kind of virtual penis for Opera users? Voting against other POV? *LOL*
der_tuxmanJun 12th 2009 5:51PM
Upset advertisers? Nor are the Mozilla.org people... Opera's only "advertising" is whinging every few days. Mimimimimimimi, $company discriminates us!!!!11111 ... Well, there must be a reason that Firefox has a wider audience.
HylicJun 12th 2009 6:14PM
I don't know what happened to my comment so I'll repost..
First i don't believe Mozilla actually makes the Ad block extension themselves. Second while there are reasons why Firefox is more popular then opera, Marketing, Open source, more easily extensible, that doesn't mean its a better browser, look at IE for example it has a larger market share than Firefox, does that mean it's better?
As for Opera whining, i don't really have anything to say for that.
der_tuxmanJun 12th 2009 6:22PM
IE is shipped with Windows, so OF COURSE many ppl have it. But Firefox? Shipped with some distributions, but so is Opera... so why does Firefox have > 30 % in Europe, while Opera doesn't even reach a third of it?I guess it's the GUI (never heard of guidelines?), the missing blocking features (compared to ABP/NoScript, this one is just bullsh*t) and the incompatibility with recent online banking sites (see: I don't know ANY Opera version working fine with most online banking sites!) ...
hylicJun 12th 2009 6:38PM
Again Opera has built in content blocking, it is possible to download a filter list for it too if you so wish, you can disable scripts from running, in fact, Opera allows you to set site specific preferences.
As for site compatibility while this used to be a big problem in the past, it is mostly not an issue anymore (i don't have any problem with my online banking). As for the GUI if you don't like it you can easily change it with skins, rearanging toolbars etc.
What I'm saying is popularity doesn't prove its a better product.
HylicJun 12th 2009 6:36PM
Again Opera has built in content blocking, it is possible to download a filter list for it too if you so wish, you can disable scripts from running, in fact, Opera allows you to set site specific preferences.
As for site compatibility while this used to be a big problem in the past, it is mostly not an issue anymore (i don't have any problem with my online banking). As for the GUI if you don't like it you can easily change it with different skins, rearranging tool bars etc.
What I'm saying is popularity doesn't prove its a better product,
HylicJun 12th 2009 6:40PM
This is strange, i reposted my comment because it didn't show up, now their both there, but the second one (later time-stamp) is earlier.
der_tuxmanJun 12th 2009 7:06PM
No "skin" can ever replace Opera's missing GUI standards... after all, even a fully skinned Opera looks like Opera, not like a native Windows application.