[WEB4LIB] Opera 5.01 -> Windows 2000?

[Richard Wiggins]

Has anyone had any luck with Opera under Windows 2000?  It dies early in initialization for me.  My note to the vendor a week ago went unanswered.

The bug Thomas reports below is a really scary regression.  They are testing my faith in a small band of nerds building a better mousetrap than Microsoft and AOL-Time-Warner-Netscape.

/rich

------Original Message------
From: "Thomas Dowling" <tdowling at ohiolink.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: December 18, 2000 2:56:25 PM GMT
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Opera 5.01

> I thought I would be Thomas Dowling in getting this information out
about
> the latest Opera browser.
>

It's my turn to be Thomas Dowling again, and to point out that Opera 5.01
is out, and to complain that, while it fixes some old bugs, it introduces
some possibly serious new ones.  Tops on my list is that 5.01 ignores
"checked" and "selected" attributes in form elements.  This in itself is
enough for me to recommend that you stick with 5.00 until this gets fixed.

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu
Richard Wiggins
Consulting, Writing & Training on Internet Topics
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