Well, my very first Opera post here revealed a startling discovery. Wordpress rich text editor hates Opera with a passion. It's a known bug, so maybe they'll actually get around to fixing it. Seems to be some funky word-wrapping error. When you type, it usually wraps at the edge of the field, buuut... In Opera, sometimes it doesn't! And when it doesn't wrap properly, then it somehow translates the error directly to the post and you've got text spilling all over your site... And that shows up in other browsers, too.

So maybe I'll just not use the rich text editor. Somehow, I like not using it. It gives me more precise control over how my posts will look... I can see all the HTML tags being applied and all that kewl stuffz. But blarg, I say. Why can't things just work the way they're supposed to. On the bright side, I guess Opera is the one that's standards compliant, so it's just Wordpress being dumb.

So I installed Opera and am going to try using it as my default browser. I've heard that it's faster... I've heard that it's slower... I've noticed that it's not very popular on Digg. (So that probably means I'll love it.) But I decided to give it a shot for a few days and see if I run into anything that's really horrible. So far, I'm enjoying it immensely!

I compared page loading times on a few sites, Firefox and Opera side by side, and there seems to be no difference between the two at all. (Except right now, I've noticed there's some screwiness with word wrapping in Wordpress when I use dashes... like saying "side-by-side". Weird.) Like I said, I'll give it a shot and see how good it is.

I actually installed Safari just now, too, to see how my site looks on that thing. Seemed to show up well enough. It took its precious time installing, though, and it's got that brilliant Apple GUI design where you can only resize a window from the lower-right corner of the window, hoho. There were the usual rendering errors, though, but oh well. If you use Safari, you're probably used to seeing that all over by now. Ziiiing! Opera, though, shows my site just as perfectly as Firefox. IE7 has got a bit of header issues, though. Some of the text is far bigger than it needs to be. Probably something with my CSS that I'll have to check into sometime.

At least with Opera, I can see exactly how things will show up on the Wii! Yay! Man, this is weird, because I remember using Opera back around 6 years ago... They actually had ad banners written into their user interface, it was THAT bad.