29. desember inviterte Slashdot sine brukere til å stille Opera-sjefen Jon S. von Tetzchner sine spørsmål om Opera, deretter skulle de plukke ut de tolv beste spørsmålene og publisere hans svar. I dag ble spørsmålene besvart.
Svarene finner du i posten Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner Answers Your Questions. Nedenfor limer jeg inn noen av spørsmålene/svarene som jeg personlig fant spesielt interessante:
1) Re:Competing vs Free Open Source Product
Some have suggested that Microsoft should buy the Opera browser. How do you feel about this? If they did, would you plan to continue with work on the browser? Would you ever work for Microsoft?
Jon S. von Tetzchner: We have been competing with Microsoft for a long time and I have not felt that they have always fought fairly. I would be disappointed if we were to end up in their hands and I find that very unlikely. I believe a lot of people at Opera would find them selves other work and that would include me.
4) Would you sell to Microsoft?
Recently someone suggested that MS should simply buy Opera as a web browser for Vista. What do you think of that idea? Would you sell?
Jon S. von Tetzchner: I am not interested in selling out to Microsoft. However, if Microsoft is interested in including Opera with Windows, we would be happy to provide them with it. I do believe that would be positive for the web in general.
9) Web developers and Opera «testing»
I've worked in a few high profile companies in the UK who are all very serious about adhering to web standards, checking all designs in internet explorer, firefox and safari, but I've yet to encounter a company who will ensure that Opera renders page layouts correctly.
What level of market share would you say is required by Opera for web developers to ensure their layouts render correctly?
Jon S. von Tetzchner: IMHO, it is best for web developers to focus on following web standards. This still leaves them with having to code for IE, but most of the time, this will lead to the fastest and best result. I also think that is absolutely necessary as the web evolves from being desktop only to being cross-platform and cross-device.
I believe that web developers should strive to test with as many browsers as possible and that Opera should be part of that as one of the major browsers in the market. Very many sites are already testing with Opera as we do have a significant market share, with between 10 and 15 million active desktop users and more than 20 million mobile deployments so far.
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