If you're using Opera, get their new web browser, 7.01, released yesterday in response to a security alert published in PC World. If you buy Opera, they give you a free six-month subscription to their Premium 'Opera Mail.' However, their Premium email requires you to use javascript in email (not a good practice, since the most egregious security breaches occur during the use of java and javascript). Opera support says that since their Premium email vendor is a separate entity, they can't change it, so you're stuck. That's funny, since prior versions of Opera email allowed you to turn off javascript...

Opera thinks Microsoft is deliberating sabotaging their attempts to break into the web browser market. Well, Microsoft shouldn't bother... Opera is doing a good job of sabotaging itself, without any help. Most programmers don't want to worry about redoing web pages to meet another quirky browser's requirements. Joe Jenett just patched this site's Radioland template so it will work correctly when viewed with Opera. What bothers me is that I wanted to have the content appear first: you can't do that with Opera's browser (and that was the coolest part of the css design); no, to get Opera to behave, the outer columns must appear first... maddening... you might as well go shoot yourself in the other foot, Opera.

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