Point 1.
I recently looked through the site browsercam and saw to my horror that opera was a problem. All of the other problems caused by browsers various I did not care about, but opera seems like a sensible proposition, and I wanted to ensure compatibility.

Point 2.
I could not be arsed sorting out point 1 until point 3.

Point 3.
I recently read Drunkenblog, a blog with innumerable virtues. (Innumerable in the sense that I don't want to think about it, not in the sense that they are unquantifiable, which they probably are.) The gentlemen proprietor had written an article discussing some recent browser benchmarks ran by another. Plasteredblog pointed out some of the problems of the tests but even so, one thing was obvious: opera is very good. Curious netizen that I am, I downloaded opera.

Point 4.
I checked opera against my site. Its seems almost exactly the same as anybody elses. No substantial glitches at all. There is a slight problem with my new recent reading iframe, but that wasn't even present when I ran browsercam. In short I'm not sure that browsercam was using the same version of opera as I am now, but it did run it on 6 and 7, but the advice seems to be don't trust browsercam, it doesn't seem to be doing very well. Shame, nice idea.

Point 5.
Opera is a great browser. very quick, and seems to do sensible things. Nice mail client, good integration with OSX in the form of automatic import of safari bookmarks, and address book. Really good stuff.

Point 6.
The problems that previously existed with my site, regarding this blog, still exist. Yes, I will sort it out. No, I don't know when.