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Pastimes : SI Beta Site Launch - 7/01/99 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ynot who wrote (687)	7/18/1999 9:33:00 PM
From: d:oug	Respond to of 2340

ynot, just a little insight into Opera for those readers on this thread that have no idea why one would pay money for a browser when two big named companies give theirs away for free. On the Opera web site is a lot of information, but someplace in the sales pitch they say "... for serious ...", meaning that this browser can do things those other two cannot. But the flip side is that you have to accept reading help files a lot to learn the ins and outs of what you can do and how to do them. Not for a user that wants all the defaults set up front. For example, you can set the cache in a number of different ways, one being how often does the browser check the web site for changes you can set the wait time. I'am using AOL 4.0 on top of Windows 3.1 at the time when everyone else is using the next generation of Windows. When I enter SI thru the browser AOL has inbedded in it I always have those AOL headers on top or bottom of my screen taken up rows of monitor space I would rather use in viewing SI posts. Opera is good in that it can be configured by the user and I can thru keyboard switching display this browser with no AOL or browser rows used, as in I get a completely blank screen and only SI stuff is showned. Another simple example is on the SI home page where the background color is black, I can hit a key sequence and turn it off and have for me easier reading. Some web pages put some quite annoying backgrounds making reading text very hard. This turning off is not the graphics stuff, as that can also be switched on or off thru keyboard keys. The AOL browser for me can only do a all or nothing and set outside the browser so its always that way. This Opera can switch on and off while being used, toggle, and has the levels - all off, all on, back off with graphics on, back on with graphic off. And you can try all thru keyboard without leaving the web page. Doug