Quote:First off, I recommend anyone using IE/Opera check this site out:
Complex Spiral
Hell, if you use Mozilla or a derivative, check it out anyway to see the cool effects.
Opera: Someone stated they used it b/c of stability. As far as I've seen, Mozilla is more stable. Working on my previous experience w/ Opera, Mozilla also has better standards-compliance.
I've gone to that site in the past and again just now and everything loads just find. Basically all his complaints that are made in the demo's are about old opera versions. Here is a quote by Eric Meyer, who is the creator of that site, on opera 7 (opera is actually on 7.11 now, but the quote was based on 7 when it was first released)
Quote:Is Opera 7 better than Opera 6? Yes. Does it have a good CSS engine? Yes. Is it the best CSS engine I've seen? No. Close, but not quite.
So by what I have read from him, he places the mozilla type browsers just a little above opera now. From my experience I see it the other way around, following the standards to the tee has made me make more work arounds for things to work in netscape than for them to work in opera. It may depend alot on what type of things you are doing though. Basically both browsers still have some problems. Anymore I think it comes down to more of a personal preference. Both opera and mozilla have good standards support at this point so that shouldn't be a limiting factor in choosing one over the other.
I do admit that I have only tried netscape and not any of the mozillas. Still I prefer opera over everything I have tried so far. The latest version has made many leaps in support from the older one, unfortunately when many people here "opera" they still think of the older one. So opera has a little bit of a problem in that they need to change what people know about it.
edit: for those who are curious I got the above quote from Eric Meyer from Eric's Archived Thoughts. There are actually two places where he comments on opera 7. The one where I quoted from and then later where he says that all (or most, can't remember which he said and I am paraphrasing) the parts that he thought might be bugs in how opera 7 does things look to be differences in interpretation instead of bugs. Meaning that opera does things different than the mozilla browsers, but both do it correctly. The standards aren't concrete about some things and so there is room for difference and yet those differences both are correct. Anyway thats just an interesting css sidenote. : )