Disappointed with new opera forum

[ThePast]

Then, lately they seem to be really ignoring their customers. I don't know much about business, but they need to start addressing the *obvious* shortcommings in Opera vs any other browser.

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RTF is on the way.

"Merlin is the name of a small falcon, an Ancient, and as Olli mentioned, the code name of our next major release. Since we released Opera 8.5 today without banner ads, we thought we'd tell everyone some of the things they have to look forward to in the future from Opera. We've been working hard on the next major release for quite some time and we're getting ever closer to releasing a preview.

Here at Opera, we like acronyms. In QA, we use acronyms and abbreviations every day. We have stuff called SPARTAN, OASIS, SNORRE, BTS, etc. In fact, we like acronyms so much, we've stuffed a bunch of them into Merlin. You might recognize a couple: XSLT 1.0, WF2, a new IMAP back-end, and some CSS3 Selectors. Of course, we can't fill Opera with just acronymns, so we stuck in designMode (rich text editing). Oh, there's more, but we can't reveal all our secrets now.

Don't worry, we also had to fix a bunch of bugs. So, we made OBJECTs and IFRAMEs respect z-index, improved our margin-collapsing code, fixed problems with width inheritance for positioned elements, and nearly completed support for Acid2. There's way, way more to talk about, but that'll come later.

Enjoy 8.5 and look forward to Merlin. It's going to be great!"

[jp10558]

RTF is on the way.

"Merlin is the name of a small falcon, an Ancient, and as Olli mentioned, the code name of our next major release. Since we released Opera 8.5 today without banner ads, we thought we'd tell everyone some of the things they have to look forward to in the future from Opera. We've been working hard on the next major release for quite some time and we're getting ever closer to releasing a preview.

Here at Opera, we like acronyms. In QA, we use acronyms and abbreviations every day. We have stuff called SPARTAN, OASIS, SNORRE, BTS, etc. In fact, we like acronyms so much, we've stuffed a bunch of them into Merlin. You might recognize a couple: XSLT 1.0, WF2, a new IMAP back-end, and some CSS3 Selectors. Of course, we can't fill Opera with just acronymns, so we stuck in designMode (rich text editing). Oh, there's more, but we can't reveal all our secrets now.

Don't worry, we also had to fix a bunch of bugs. So, we made OBJECTs and IFRAMEs respect z-index, improved our margin-collapsing code, fixed problems with width inheritance for positioned elements, and nearly completed support for Acid2. There's way, way more to talk about, but that'll come later.

Enjoy 8.5 and look forward to Merlin. It's going to be great!"

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I know that now, but not back when I posted my original post. I'm not a troll, I'm an Opera lover, but I want it to be good, and it gets old saying eh, eh, eh, maybe someday we'll have that.

The other big thing Opera users "miss" which we really don't in the grand scheme of things, is AdBlock - but there's no way to have that, and I seriously believe that few people use it.

I've shown adblocking of various forms to many less techie people, and they are flatly not interested. 80%+ who use IE don't really have an adblocker either. So, it's more of a non-issue than often claimed in various discussions - because I don't think Opera want's to go after FF users, they want a piece of the much bigger IE pie.

[d_ralphie]

The other big thing Opera users "miss" which we really don't in the grand scheme of things, is AdBlock

naw... opera has many ways to block ads...

[Pink Floyd Veteran]

well the site isnt ugly but not my type either

it's original perhaps

[Galley]

I lke the new site design, including the forums. Their blog is pretty cool as well. I checked out WordPress, and found a gorgeous skin, but didn't much care for the backend.