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Macromedia products always install opera!!!
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Oct 14, 2003, 11:42 PM
 
Just voicing my beef with Macromedia's dumb/non-smart installers that insist on installing a copy of the same version of Opera every time I install one of their products. i have 4 copies of Opera sitting on my HD now. They should search for it first, or offer it as a separate option in their installer so i can at least un-check it.
     
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Oct 14, 2003, 11:50 PM
 
Yea but for some reason the startup panels in DW and Flash require opera to display the content. Why they cant use one copy is beyond me.
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Oct 15, 2003, 07:29 AM
 
...or use webkit.
     
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Oct 15, 2003, 07:39 AM
 
Adobe GoLive is/will be using Opera too. Fun huh? You guys are gonna enjoy even more Opera copies!!
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Oct 15, 2003, 08:33 AM
 
i smell money changing hands between Opera and Macromedia & Adobe.
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Oct 15, 2003, 08:42 AM
 
I deleted the copy of opera in the App's folder's, and move the remaining one to another/different folder, and it shows their splash/startup panel fine.

Originally posted by OptimusG4:
Yea but for some reason the startup panels in DW and Flash require opera to display the content. Why they cant use one copy is beyond me.
     
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Oct 15, 2003, 08:43 AM
 
Its not even that Opera bothers me.. just the non-smart installer.
     
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Oct 15, 2003, 11:01 AM
 
Originally posted by voodoo:
Adobe GoLive is/will be using Opera too. Fun huh? You guys are gonna enjoy even more Opera copies!!
Guh! Apple finally caves in to the MS way of doing things, HTML rendering within the OS. Now everybody seams to have decided to go pay Opera wads of cash to include there HTML renderer & browser (which has more 'standards' problems than Safari). Opera must have some great salesmen.

They should at least put it in as an option, Use Opera/Use Safari. How mutch extra programing can it be to offload the HTML to webkit.
     
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Oct 15, 2003, 02:54 PM
 
Originally posted by Mediaman_12:
Guh! Apple finally caves in to the MS way of doing things, HTML rendering within the OS. Now everybody seams to have decided to go pay Opera wads of cash to include there HTML renderer & browser (which has more 'standards' problems than Safari). Opera must have some great salesmen.

They should at least put it in as an option, Use Opera/Use Safari. How mutch extra programing can it be to offload the HTML to webkit.
Is Opera being used for the editing mode? If so, then WebCore isn't an editing engine, it's a rendering engine. Opera probably had to customize their renderer to allow editing. As for previews, it would probably be pretty easy for them to use WebCore.
     
   
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