WASP in Opera4
I don't know exactly how old Opera4 is now (current version is 6, and 7 is due soon) but it was the first version with CSS support.
The current version of WASP is so well designed that it looks equally good in Opera4 and any recent browser.
How did they accomplish this? By using a dozen nested tables for the design? Heck no. It is XHTML 1.0 strict and CSS.
Related reading:
Opera 4 release notes
Screen shot of WASP site in Opera4
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Comments
Actually Tim, Opera 3.50 had near perfect (rated 98.7% by Eric Meyer) CSS1 support, with the main limitation that it wouldn't do things that the HTML standard (3.2) supported in that version wouldn't do, such as apply backgrounds to some elements. 3.62 is was so good that it is regarded as a "golden" version of Opera, and it was also the last version to be available in a 16-bit build.
After a prolonged series of public betas, Opera 4 seemed to do a bit of a Mozilla and slipped backwards just before its final release, which was widely regarded as terrible - although UI and the new mail/news client were big contibutors to the problems.
4.2 was almost useable, then the much awaited 4.3 turned out to be Opera 5. There was no "golden version" in the 4-5 series - 5.12 would have been close had it not broken a couple of important things while fixing other important bugs in 5.11.
Posted by: Richard Grevers | October 9, 2002 01:38 AM