2005, Jun 24
Opera 8.01 and Browser Javascript
Well, well. If Firefox can do it, Opera can do it better! At least, that is what I see from this minor version upgrade of Opera, now strong at 8.01. Opera, with this version, apart from introducing a whole lot of security updates (none of them critical, as such), some GUI improvements and more, brought in the concept of Browser Javascript. Something on the lines of GreaseMonkey of the FireFox fame, allowing you to fix broken DHTML and JavaScript. A very clever take indeed, for it is officially supported, and patches are released automatically. Moreover, Opera is faring much better in the ACIDtest. More on that later…
Now, I have not been able to experiment much with that, but is seems quite an interesting thing to do. Watch out for this space.
And then again, I stand by my decision to vouch for Opera, over IE, FF and Mozilla.