Re: Opera & Arabic

[Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi at arabeyes dot org>]

On Saturday 05 October 2002 07:48, Yaser Al-Jarbou wrote:
> You mentioned Mozilla,Galeon, Konqueror ...
> But none of these is like Opera in terms of speed and
> secirity.

Do you have anthing to say about Netscape 7 ? what about Mozilla 1.0.1 .. oh 
they are the same thing ! :-) Mozilla is as good and ready to compete with 
comersial software as any software would be .. 

> I used opera 6.03, and they publish Opera 7  which is
> not free but has full support of arabic and Bidi as
> they told me.

Mozilla 1.1 already have it .. Arabic Support, proper BiDi .. another Superior 
point for Mozilla :-)

I agree that the Opera is good in terms of speed .. it got a good algorithem  
for rendering HTML .. No one can deny .. but beside that Mozilla Rulez !


>
> --- Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:44:12PM -0700, Nadim
> >
> > Shaikli wrote:
> > > --- Isam Bayazidi wrote:
> > > > As far as I can recall .. Opera is not Open
> >
> > Source .. or at least this
> >
> > > > is my understanding ..
> > >
> > > It should not preclude us from lobbying for the
> >
> > addition of Arabic support.
> >
> > > My 0.02 euro's :-) worth.
> >
> > I am personally not interested in Opera at all. It
> > is not Open Source and
> > there are plenty of other alternatives that deserve
> > our attention. When we run
> > out of 'Open Source' applications to work on, maybe
> > we can look into the
> > commercial world.. but as far as Arabeyes is
> > concerned, Opera should not be of
> > any interest. As Hicham has pointed out, Mozilla,
> > Galeon, Konqueror.. those
> > deserve our attention. Localization work for Mozilla
> > has not started.. why
> > look into Opera?
> >
> > And this is coming from someone who has actually
> > purchased a license from
> > Opera ;)
> >
> > later
> > --
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