Opera resources

Page not looking right? You should use a browser that supports current Internet standards. Note, this does NOT include Internet Explorer. Microsoft have hardly tried to keep Internet Explorer's standards handling up-to-date, despite the fact that it is already seriously out of date, and forces web page authors to use endless wasteful tricks to force it to display or script pages even remotely correcly. It takes something as big as Acid 2 to make them finally implement an 11 year old standard (CSS 2) properly. I guess Microsoft believe they have enough of a monopoly that they don't need to care anymore. Don't want to be controled by a monopoly? Upgrade to something that is still developed and complies with current standards. Opera, Mozilla, Safari and Konqueror, or browsers based on them, are a good start.

Opera resources

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My personal Opera links

About Opera

• A little bit about Opera: a short piece about what makes the Opera browser such a uniquely useful Internet tool
• Mobile browser rendering: a comparison of browsers for mobile devices, showing why I believe Opera is the best device browser
• Opera and Acid 2: a series of screenshots showing how each major version of Opera renders the Acid 2 test
• The mysterious Opera object: documentation for the otherwise undocumented window.opera object
• Opera Show generator: an article about the Opera Show generator created by Opera ASA
• Opera's rendering modes: documentation of the various display modes that opera uses, and how to activate them
• Rants inspired by fanboys: dispelling the anti-Opera rubbish spouted by (typically Firefox) fanboys
• Opera for Mac speed improvements: tests to see whether the speed difference between Opera 7.54 and Opera 8 is more noticable when the operating system is under load
• My job at Opera: a bit about my job working for Opera Software ASA

Opera styles/skins

• Opera IRC styles: CSS files to replace the default Opera IRC chat style
• Opera chat CSS: using CSS to disable features of Opera IRC chat

Opera configuration

• User JavaScripts: user JavaScripts that you can use to enhance or fix web sites
• Widgets: widgets for Opera
• Making Opera look like other browsers: setup files to make Opera 9 look like other common browsers
• MultiTorg Opera 8: setup files to make Opera 8 look like the unreleased original MultiTorg Opera 1.0
• Spoken Page and Table: speech stylesheets that help make sense of page and table structure - for use with the voice component of Opera 7.6+ on Windows 2000 and XP
• Opera for Linux features: getting Opera features to work on Linux
• Opera for Mac features: getting Opera features to work on Mac
• Additional menus for Opera: menus that provide aditional or enhanced functionality

Opera tools

• CSS tests: a few advanced CSS capability tests
• Bookmarklets: toolbar/bookmark buttons for performing web development tasks
• HTTP headers: viewing sent and received headers in Opera
• Mouse gestures panel: install a panel to help remind yourself of what mouse gestures are available in Opera

Internet Opera links

Opera Software links

• Opera Software homepage: The place to download Opera and get information on Opera technology
• Opera specifications: The web specifications that Opera supports
• My Opera Community: User support forums (including latest beta downloads), archive of skins, configurations, tutorials and graphics
• Opera tutorials: Official tutorials on how to use Opera features (maintained, in part, by me), including User JavaScript

Opera CSS handling

• CSS destroy: CSS examples that push the perceived limits of CSS
• CSS/edge: CSS examples from Eric Meyer showing that standards compliant CSS can achieve stunning results
• Csant's Opera 7.6+ voice support pages: Opera's speech/aural CSS support (one of the main Opera voice QAs)

Other Opera links

• Rijk's KISS: how to dramatically simplify the Opera interface to ease transition from other browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla or Safari
• Toman's opera chat styles: beautiful styles for Opera IRC
• 30 days to becoming an Opera lover: what it says
• Opera Wiki: huge resource of information, tips, customisations, configurations, and generally helpful information for Opera - contributed by hundreds of Opera users worldwide
• M2 Tutorial: tutorial showing how to use Opera's email and news client
• URL filtering: tutorial showing how to block content from certain URLs
• Rijk's Customizing Opera: detailed configuration examples
• Opera modifications: dialog and style setup files
• Opera config files: toolbar, keyboard, mouse, menu and style setups
• Phil Burns Software: Opera profile manager and OperaShow creation tool QuickShow (making Opera work like PowerPoint)
• Die inoffizielle Opera-Fansite: the massive German Opera fan-site - includes interviews with Opera staff
• Cijferman's opera chat tutorials: a couple of tutorials on how to use Opera chat features
• Faking Browser IDs: if you get stuck with one of those stupid web pages, where an arrogant or ignorant page author has blocked Opera for no good reason (there is never a good reason for inaccessible pages), Andrew Gregory's tutorial can help you bypass the blockage