Opera - amazing

[francis]

I've been using Opera a lot over the last couple of weeks for my web standards presentation. Its feature set has really grown since I've last used it. There are some features that, I feel, are worth using when constructing good sites.

For example, you can set it to emulate a text browser - no frames, no CSS, no images (just your alt text). When you see your site like that (as a blind person may well do, if you get my meaning), does your content still make sense? Is it in the right order, do your alt attributes make sense with the content or do they confuse? Here's a screen shot:

http://www.websitearchitecture.co.uk/storr/forumimgs/accessibility.gif

There's also the facility to pick out all of your structural elements:

http://www.websitearchitecture.co.uk/storr/forumimgs/structural.gif

There's also a "proper" zoom facility that makes all the on screen content (images and text) larger, which is very good for those with poor eyesite:

http://www.websitearchitecture.co.uk/storr/forumimgs/eden2000zoom.gif

Added to that, the usual user-centred features of popup blocking, tabbed browsing, the rather fine "type ahead find" (never use CTRL+F to find anything again) and a host of other features, Opera 7.2.1 is a very, very fine browser.