THE WHATIS.COM WORD-OF-THE-DAY December 23, 2002 Opera ______________ TODAY'S SPONSOR: NetIQ
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It offers the same capabilities of the more popular browsers including integrated searches and instant messaging, support for JavaScript, cascading style sheets, and mail. Because Opera is so compact, it is being promoted for use in hand-held Internet devices. Opera is free for downloading to all supported platforms. The free version of Opera contains ads, which are cached weekly to insure Opera's fast speed is maintained. The other versions of Opera do not have ads, which is why Opera charges a modest one-time license fee. The feature you notice first after installing Opera is a menu or "hotlist" that serves as both a directory to the Web and a bookmark file. The hotlist can be easily removed and you can use the full viewing space to look at multiple Web sites at the same time, either tiling or cascading the windows. You can choose to have the sites you were last looking at restored the next time you open the Opera browser. Opera offers keyboard as well as mouse control of its features. Plug-ins such as RealAudio, RealVideo, and Shockwave can be added. Opera does not support Active-X or Visual Basic. Opera began in 1994 as a research project for the national phone company in Norway and is now considered to be the third most popular Web browser. 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