Opera 9 was released today. It has all sorts of new features, like Bittorrent, an easy way to add search engines, site-specific preferences, widgets, content blocking, a built-in source viewer, a manual configuration page, tab thumbnails, and a hell of a lot more. They also added a lot of functionality to Presto as well, such as full Acid2 compatibility. a lot of CSS stuff, and a lot of ajax stuff. Get it now. Seriously, it’s amazing.
A new Opera “weekly” build came out today. You can get it at the Desktop Team blog. However, that’s not the issue. It uses the old RSS icon…
Now, I like the old RSS icon that Opera used. Safari uses the same icon, and there really was no need to switch. Firefox’s feed icon looks like a transmitter, and rss hardly transmits anything. Anyway, that’s not the point. The point is, Mozilla’s making Opera and other programs that use their feed icon sign an agreement. Why they’re doing this, I have no idea.
A few days ago, mitchell posted on her blog about the whole feed icon thing. There were 3 options: one was setting the icon loose with an open-source licence, another was trademarking it, and the third was to basically get everyone together who will use the icon and set some boundaries. I’m assuming they did the third.
So it seems now that Mozilla had a good idea, they’re running the show. Now, nobody can use the icon until they sign an agreement, which is kind of silly. I’m disappointed in them. I would at least let others use the icon until the agreement is taken care of, then have everyone conform to that agreement. Oh well, whatever. It’s their icon.
Well, in case you didn’t notice, this site and all the sites hosted with it have been moving slower for the last week or so. That’s because I’m now hosted by Dreamhost. Sadly, the server I’m on is having issues with DoSes and other unknown things. Once it’s all sorted out, I’ll start blogging again. Sorry for taking so long to post, I know I haven’t posted anything since, like, April. I’ll speed things up over the summer.
