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• Wikipedia statement on academic use
  This says it all:
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academic_use

  August 11, 2006

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• not because of this "Makeover"
  Opera's popularity has really got nothing to do with it's current functionality. It's been more or less the same since about version 7 or so with a some relatively minor additions each upgrade.
  
  The main problem is that for a long time it was not freely available - it was add supported or subscription based, which was necessary for a fledgling small company at the time. The second problem is that web page developers have stubbornly refused to develop cross-browser compatible sites. They do not use the industry standards but instead proprietary and special technology that does not work in all browsers - only their preferred market of IE, Netscape and, more recently, Firefox. So sites don't work and people switch back to what they were using before. Not really Opera's fault there - they have some of the best support for web standards of all browsers right now. In reply to: "Opera's efforts are too little and too late"

  June 20, 2006

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