[thelist] Re: search for CSS-compliant, simple browser

Simon Willison simon at incutio.com
Mon Jul 8 09:42:09 CDT 2002


At 10:11 04/07/2002 -0400, Techwatcher wrote:
>This morning I was up early to try to download a browser. Selected Opera
>from the browsers at evolt, worked out how to get FTP client to
>download it, downloaded it (one hour). Installed it. Yikes!
>
>So I'm back to using Netscape Navigator 4.0... Opera displays practically
>all sites with wrappings that make them almost unreadable.
>Perhaps if I spent another hour reading the Opera-related instructions, I
>might be able to, say, see the normal grid of tv listings at Gist, or
>see the list (with columns) of my e-mail. Guess if I'm going to put
>another hour into that chore?

What version of Opera did you try? I just had a look at www.gist.com in
Opera 6.02 and it worked fine (I don't have an account so I may have missed
the broken pages though).

Regards,

Simon





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