Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 10th Oct 2006 15:07 UTC, submitted by abdavidson
Hakon Wium Lie must feel a special kinship with the "Band of Brothers" soliloquy that Shakespeare reserves for Henry V.
"We few we, happy few, we band of brothers..." the king proclaims before his men head into battle. With all of Microsoft's riches and power behind it, Internet Explorer has dominated the Web browser market since Netscape's defeat in the late 1990s. But as CTO of Opera Software, Wium Lie's job is to figure out how to incorporate the best technology possible in his company's software - and in this he's stolen a beat on Opera's much bigger rival.
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2005-12-15
opera's tech has never been in question (at least since 8.0 when they rebuilt the renderer to be non-static). what opera needs to figure out is how to convey that advantage to the users. for some of us, opera is necessary (hello fujip P1120 800mhz crusoe laptop). but for most people, the technical advantages dont make a difference.
opera can deal with absolutely colossal numbers of windows/tabs far better than anything else. (opera was the first mainstream app i've ever used with tabs) unfortunately, while the tech is there, operas done jack-all to let users access this capability. opera was one of the first one's to save session state, yet since the introduction of the technical feature, opera has done zilch to refine the user control over it; it is still just "save the entire session" "load entire session".
there comes a point where you have too many web pages open at once. usability breaks down. opera let users grow this stack as big as they dream, but has done nothing to provide the users tool for manipulating the information workspace monster they create, nothing to reduce or control the stack. all you can do now is close tabs, but not all non-pertinent information should be discarded like this.
there's an easy band aid, but opera evidently feels like f--king their customers over instead.
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=161741
11 readers at time of this post. and i am at least two of them. really makes me feel like opera is on the ball with their user experience.
apps are about INFORMATION SPACES. opera is failing, in spite of godlike tech.