From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Mon Jun 17 2002 - 10:48:15 MDT
Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote:
> Opera also allows one to control cookies, javascript, java, gif
> animation, embedded video, embedded audio, referrer logging, proxy
> servers, privacy information gathering, stylesheets, frames, and how it
> will identify itself to remote servers. It is the only browser I know
> that allows the user to really control their computer while browsing the
> Internet. Other browsers have too many backdoors and information leaks
> that let remote sites do all sorts of things without the user's
> knowledge.
I second the recommendation for Opera. Note that many of the common
preferences Harvey mentions are accessible via the F12 key, and there is
a show/load/off button for images that actually works (i.e., in
Netscrape you can't not show cached images). MSIE perpetuates errors by
it's charming attempts to render anything remotely resembling html,
which I suppose is good since it handles all the nesting errors etc
produced by MS Office->html conversions, but makes it a bad choice as
the main browser for web developers. There's a button to switch to user
stylesheets, so when I encounter a page from 1996 with a horrendous
background I can make it instantly readable. Add right-click access to
dictionary/encyclopedia/translation/html validation, ability to create a
working window for all links activated from an existing window, a
slideshow feature, zooming, gesture navigation, and possibly the best
adherance to W3C standards makes Opera imho the best choice for web
developers. Sorry to sound like a commercial, and I'm norwegian so maybe
biased... (though found it shocking that the 07-06-05 site didn't
recognize Opera as a valid user-agent...)
-Mike
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