Free Opera Licences — Today Only
The browser Opera is 10 years old and the developers say, “We’re giving away registration codes for as long as the party lasts!” This is the real deal: I grabbed one.
http://my.opera.com/community/party/
Good marketing, IMO! (And Opera 8 is a very interesting browser — I’ve had it on my machine since it first came out for Mac.)
August 31st, 2005 at 3:16 pm
Opera indeed is a very interesting browser, and they have done a lot for web standards.
But I do agree with Anatoly on this to a certain degree.
August 31st, 2005 at 5:56 pm
Hi Prabhath, nice to see you here. 🙂
I am sure I remember that when I first started getting interested in first CSS and then web standards, Eric Meyer said on the CSS-Discuss email list that Mac/IE5 was the best for implementing CSS, with Opera a close second. How times change!
But Opera 8 does have some quite nifty features and is a very well-rounded… well… it’s now much more than just a browser. And giving away free licences as “birthday presents” is a great way for it to gain publicity and hopefully (for them) market share.
If it gains market share against Win/IE (which we’re unlikely to ever see because I believe Opera by default identifies itself as Win/IE) the developers could be encouraged to catch up in the areas of CSS support and web standards. (Truthfully, the sites I’ve viewed on Opera 8 — admittedly not many — look just fine.)
Anyway, the point for us webdev types is that most of us do test in Opera so a free licence is great. 😀