Julianne

Perhaps Tom needs an upgrade in order to be able to have Opera work with the VIG site. This site is extremely complex with custom features that other sites typically do not have, and it is optimized for viewing in Firefox and IE. I guess you could say it's a bit on the fancy side of things because we tend to give the users what they ask for even if it takes the creation of something new programming-wise. Opera sounds great speedwise for your run of the mill simple site (and was introduced to run as a compact browser on handheld devices) but it's just not "intelligent" enough (prior to the 6.0 version) for the offerings of VIG. If anyone has Opera 6.0 and could test the site with it and let me know ihow it works I would appreciate it.

I took this off an Opera tutorial site:
Why Not Number One?

While the Opera browser has several advantages over Netscape and IE, there are reasons it is a distant third in the browser wars. First, it is not completely free. While a free version is available for download and use, it contains banner ads that are built into the browser itself. To remove them, it is necessary to purchase a registered version of the browser for $39 US.

Second, the Opera browser has lagged a step behind Netscape and IE in both features, such as searching from the address bar, and support for advanced standards such as XML, CSS, or Java. It is only within the last year that some of these have been well supported, in versions 5.x of Opera for Windows. Since most Web developers work with either IE or Netscape (often both), there were often compatibility problems between Opera and complex web pages--a problem excerbated by the often non-standard ways in which IE and Netscape treat such features. We found that Opera 5.11 did not fully implement the CSS or JavaScript on several Web pages, but that the new 6.0 beta version did. Opera and its supporters hope that this new version will close the feature and compatibility gap with IE and Netscape.