Praising Opera 9

[Alf-Ivar Holm]

Alexander Skwar <listen at alexander.skwar.name> writes:

> · Alf-Ivar Holm <alfh at student.matnat.uio.no>:

>> The menu is not on the "image menu", but on the "page menu", ie. 3rd
>> click somewhere on the page that is not occupied by an image or plugin.
>
> Are you sure, you've got the numbers of the mouse buttons right?
> On a right handed mouse, please fill in the numbers:
[...]
> I'd say: a=1, b=3, c=2.

a=1, b=2, c=3

Try clicking the buttons when using xev(1).  Of course, you can make
the middle button be number 3, in a kind of mouse use by obscurity.
Note: this is X, where the middle button is a real button, not the
"left and right together" metaphor of MS Windows world.  Or, that is
what it used to be.  The Mac users has a lot of good arguments for
only having one button, but if you are going to have more than one,
why not support a whole hand of them?  And X is from the
pre-mouse-wheel-era, so there was nothing special with the middle
button of a three buttoned mouse.

> When I click with the middle button, the text from the clipboard is 
> loaded as an URL. 

Yes, that is covered in another sub-thread.

> Anyway, on the right mouse button menu, there's a "block content"
> entry. It allows to then chose, which items are to be blocked.

Bingo!

> Hm. I like the Adblock interface better, as it's faster. You right
> click the content that you wish to block (images, in its easiest
> way) and select "Adblock+: Block image".

Then stick to Adblock+!

>> Indeed.  I was just trying to explain how to do the blocking in Opera,
>> and I think it is very easy to use, especially since it magically adds
>> wildcards.
>
> Well, that's nothing special. In Adblock, in its easiest way, every
> text is interpreted as part of the URI. So, if you add "banner" to
> the block list, every URI which has "banner" *somewhere* is blocked.
> On all servers.

That's nifty, but that Adblock+ (I tried it now in Adblock 5 (without
the +), and it didn't work for a DIV tag with a given name, but some
picture with that string in the name got blocked) has something even
more special doesn't contradict that the Opera way is something
special, by the fact that it does more than the obvious.  It clearly
doesn't meet your needs, but for me it is a welcome improvement and
nicely done.

	Affi