another issue – opera seems to completly stop any form of competing with firefox (they compete on fields totaly irrelevant to real world like acid and html5) and they dont seem to have ANY vision of where to head.

and finaly – they do not give any reason to believe, that they are ABLE to fix opera mounting regressions, rendering incompatibilities, various mayor usability and functional issues and drawbacks.

last version of opera was a side step, not a step forwards – they havent introduced any of long awaited, industry standards like these mentioned in first comment – they havent really introduced anything usefull. opera link.. well, ok, when it works it is ok, but is it all?

9.5 was to be a breaktrough in website compatibility – it isnt, anybody can see it, there is no breaktrough in plugin compatiblity (we have to use FIREFOX wmv plugin (that requires ff to be present in a system to install!) to watch wmv content without constant crashing), youtube works 5 times out of 10, other media sites do not work at all etc etc etc. silverlight was PROMISED by opera to work in 9.5 and in SL 2.0 version. it was a LIE.

they better disband their lame secret team (nothing really good came out from opera labs in 3or more years) and start working on BASICS.

oh, their developer tools.. laughable, sorry, it these are simply laughable.

The people who complain about this don’t realize that Opera is a huge company that has multiple job titles. They have dedicated desktop team employees and dedicated Opera mini employees. Likewise, they are trying to get dedicated top-secret employees. This won’t impede the progress of 9.5 being fully fixed in the least.

(opengl) – Render using OpenGL [2002-09-24] ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=opengl )

Linked from the above, “Need to implement XUL3D” [2001-06-12] ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85586 )

That said i agree with @serrious, didn’t opera labs release a hardware accelerated build at one point? or was that firefox…. Also with the 3d canvas and video element as well, seems to point to hardware accel.

well, known issues:

“Keyboard input doesn’t work
Problems with drag and drop
On some sites don’t work
Opera sometimes crashes”

are you kidding? this is a whole lot of show stoppers, and page breakers. not some minor ‘known issues’..

summarising: silverlight DOES NOT work with Opera.

this somewhat points to hardware accelerated graphics (which would push load to the GPU and thus would bring more free ressources to the cpu to do maybe some sophisticated things or would enable animations to not have too much impact on the cpu).

and as for silverlight sucking. let me remind you, that people were telling the same exact thing when MS introduced .NET platform, vs 2003 line and windows 2003. guess what? this stuff now powers more buissiness applications than most other competitors combined. because MS delivered something so easy to use that it couldnt be resisted. silverlight is MANY MANY times easier to use than flash. and it has WHOLE .net platform behind it. it certainly doesnt suck.

and btw, id like for opera to present its solution to ‘closenes’ of the internet – some practical solution, instead of blindly limiting its users. opera does a lot of useless talk, but their reall achievements in the industry as for late are VERY limited.

About the thing Opera’s doing, I’d be on some “Weave” clone. Or some “Prism” clone. Waddayasay?