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Opera plays their ball

Another nice marketing idea from Opera.
After the last rumours about Opera going freeware there were two possibilites. The rumours were right or wrong (Oh! So wise!). If the rumours were right, preparing such campaign is a very clever move. You get free news/press, you get blog news etc. People keeps talking about Opera. They might do some more “promotions” like this before really switching to freeware. Bravo!
If the rumours were wrong, then they must do actions like this not to gather bad press (imagine article “Everyone was sure that Opera will be freeware, but they only gave their users new forums… Such a disappointment”).
I think that the former one is truth, and Opera is just playing with the last days of occasional promotions for product that will be free in a short time.
For example, imagine the amount of people who promoted Opera with buttons for weeks, months, to get those 250 clicks… And I got Opera with one small email. But the amount of noise in press about both actions is the same, so Opera wins.

I’m still saying that Mozilla should learn from Opera that sometimes you can do small step to gather big marketing advantage (as my favourite example – we really could’ve SVG first).

8 replies on “Opera plays their ball”

I wouldn’t call SVGT support a small step 😉

Also you must remember Opera implemented the whole SVGT, while Mozilla’s SVG lacks a few important elements (animation for example), and it is not even full SVGT.

J81: Opera’s support for SVG lacks of a few things too. While Mozilla supports SVG full 1.1.
I don’t know how did you check the support but the result is that in Gecko you can do use MUCH more SVG than in Opera.
For example, in Gecko you can use SVG to create dynamic games and a’ka flash interfaces thanks to Dynamic SVG support (via DOM and JS). Mozilla doesnt support SMIL which is “predefined set of animated behaviours” – it’s another standard. Gecko support dynamic animations with SVG while Opera doesn’t.

I know Mozilla supports more SVG than Opera, but at least Opera has a *full* support of a standard subset (SVGT) while Mozilla support of SVG is more “chaotic”, I mean now it doesn’t support all SVG, nor all SVGT.

BTW, na kanale OperaParty na irc.opera.com będzie można porozmawiać z CEO Opery von Tetzchnerem i Hakonem Wium Lie o 4 i 6 PM 🙂

Opera’s SVG Tiny support is not full 😉 But that doesn’t matter. We could have it first – just because first SVG builds were avaible in 2002 IIRC.

Gandalf, you (nor me) don’t know when Opera developed their first _internal_ builds with SVG, so your claims that you could have it first are groundless 😛

Anyway, I think it doesn’t really matter who is first or second. As long as it’s not IE, SVG will remain dead.

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