Thoughts on Design

Modifo, in his recent 5 Wishes for Opera post, tagged me with “5 wishes on how Opera could improve”. An interesting question.

1. I wish I used Opera more. I’ll work on that.
2. I wish it was better utilized, I’m sick of designing for IE. I’ll likely always be designing for IE (the lowest common denominator) but it’s a wish list after all.
   
3. More developer widgets. I use Firefox at work, so I use it home. The developers tools and plugins are very helpful.

I realize that’s only three, but it really is quite good. Here’s three reasons I do like it.

1. The tabbed browsing is very good.
2. Integral mouse gestures. I realized yesterday that I’d been using mouse gestures in Opera and they were working. I had to install a plugin in Firefox for that.
3. I love the way the themes and color schemes work. I use a computer all day, a slick user interface makes using it more enjoyable.
   

Go check out the wish lists at Modifoo and Douglas Karr, they’re both quite excellent.