Posted Thursday 5th February 2009 22:03 GMT
I know I'm probably about 1 in a 1000 - literally, but it's quick, and fast, handles tabbed browsing easily, and works with most things I want it to. Occasionally it have to load FF, (which brings my computer to a halt for about 30 seconds as it lumbers into life), but generally Opera does the business. Even for Youtube and (yikes) Facebook.
Heck, I even *paid* for it back in the day...
Posted Thursday 5th February 2009 22:37 GMT
but I hope Opera doesn't forget I use it more for ease of use than speed. Safari is nice and all, but I miss so much when I use it.
Jon Stokes recently dissed the Palm Pre for using a Javascript API that would be inefficient compared to a native API, but maybe the Palm people are doing something similar to the Opera people and also translating down to native where possible.
Posted Thursday 5th February 2009 23:59 GMT
EMCAScript is an attempt to get away from the JavaScript name and the amusing Java misunderstanding. But, JavaScript it was called and all very legitimately.
You can use it to your advantage though, nobody who codes in either JavaScript or Java makes the mistake, but blowhard technodweebs make it all the time, and this acts as a quick early warning indicator that you are dealing with a moron.
Posted Friday 6th February 2009 00:48 GMT
ECMAScript isn't Javascript, but Javascript is based on ECMAScript. ActionScript (used in Flash) is based on ECMAScript. JScript is based on ECMAScript. They are all supersets of ECMAScript.
ECMAScript is an official standard. Javascript is not. Opera cannot claim to be compliant with something not standarised, without leaving themselves open to criticism for non-compliance. They must be careful, and specific.
Posted Friday 6th February 2009 06:41 GMT
"and the amusing Java misunderstanding." .... By Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 6th February 2009 00:39 GMT.
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Posted Friday 6th February 2009 11:00 GMT
Assembly code is a low-level language representation of machine (aka native) code.
The comment "The native code will look a lot like assembly code" makes about as much a sense as the comment from amanfromMars.
Posted Friday 6th February 2009 11:00 GMT
phew. and here i was thinking i was starting to understand amanfromMars's postings.
Could we get him to write the next version of the European Constitution? Everyone would be too frightened to say "I dont understand it" to vote against it.
Posted Friday 6th February 2009 11:00 GMT
I use Opera - with Javascript disabled wherever possible.
There's rarely any need for it.
So a faster rendition? Not interested.
A web-secure scripting language? That I might have interest in.
Posted Friday 6th February 2009 15:50 GMT
Opera has the same core engine for all operating systems and this includes the very popular Opera Mini and Opera for Windows Mobile. It may not matter all that much on our multi-core many-gig desktops, but it can matter on the mobiles.
Posted Friday 6th February 2009 15:50 GMT
ECMAscript was developed by Netscape and gained the name after it was submitted to, and retified by, the European Computer Manufacturers Association. However, at the height of the browser wars, some corpoate wonk at Netscape decided to deliberately confuse matters by rebranding it 'Javascript', in an attempt to suggest a completely bogus association with the, then, much more fashionable, Java language. It would be quite good if we could all go back to calling it 'Livescript' (it's original name) since that was actually a pretty good description of wwhat most people use it for.
Posted Friday 13th February 2009 04:26 GMT
Opera plans to speed up their scripting engine by restructuring their memory management system for variables and objects and by employing Just-In-Time compilation. Sounds like it'd be a blast for desktop application but may be more problematic for memory-limited applications like Mini and Mobile (JIT and the "register" system seem to indicate an increased memory footprint as the tradeoff for increased speed). I wish them luck.
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