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I can allready see this will be the year of the widgets/gadgets/whatever companies will call them. Widgets in OS X for a long time allready, but if MS releases Vista this year we'll have gadgets aswell... Then there is all the smaller companies (like Opera) that will follow up with their widget engines...

Am I the only one who thinks that we are begining to reach market saturation on so-called 'widgets'? As a long time Opera user, I feel that they may endanger their core market by concentrating on an arena ruled by Yahoo! (Konfabulator), Apple (Dashboard), as well as new projects such as KDE Plasma and Symphony OS. I'd rather have an ultra-efficient, standards-following browser than yet another widget engine.

Where do you have this info from? (dashboard on kde4)

This would be really good as a hosting system for web-based applications.

Instead of running everything from within a browser window, you can have your own window pop up.

Imagine something like Writely looking as native on your desktop as MS Word, with no fancy browser paraphenalia. If they add the ability for launches (a la Java Webstart) they could really be on to something.

This sounds more like Replicants from BeOS than it does the widgets from MacOSX. Sais they are on the desktop, which to me would indicate they are larger than those in the widget thing in OSX. I've had a Net+ replicant in one of my woprkspaces for years now, well before OSX was released.

Widgets aren't nothing new in computing world, but combining them with Browsers that supports voice commands can be very, very interesting and powerful feature. With .torrent support coming up fully implemented we will certanly see some interesting widgets, and hopefully thse won't stop on binary clocks, stock reports or weather information ^_^

On bad side, allowing 3d part developers to digg into Opera's SDK might lead to security problems, though knowing the previous Opera records these if do appear will be minumum.

Looking forward to see how it turnes out.

Opera is all I use, I don't use anything else. I am not a sophisticated user, I don't even know what you guys are talking about. But I do know Opera doesn't work for things like the U.S. Gov't site to buy stamps online, the J.C. Penney catalog shopping cart, certain yahoo functions which change from version to version, and it has an infuriating glitch where it locks up if it displays an illegal cookie notification or something at the same time some other window requiring a response pops up(Alt-Tab will often get you out but not always by any means). Also I'd like to see a priority on responsiveness of the buttons. If Iclick a link leading to a crappy webpage that won't quit loading and ties up my whole pc, I want to be able to kill it RIGHT NOW without ctrl-alt-del'ing the whole freakin' browser; it needs a kill button that's always on to halt whatever it's engaged in. Stop designing a browser on the assumption everyone has a cable modem, design it to work correctly on a dial-up if you respect your own roots. Also I have yet to make it display the flash animation at one certain site that nobody else has trouble with, but in all fairness when I tried Firefox it displayed a "searching for plugins" thingy and went to sleep while it scratched it's nuts and pretended to be searching.

That reminds me, by now shouldn't about a dozen obnoxious Firefox zealots be trying to hijack this Opera thread like they usually do?