Opera “erfindet” komplett irrelevante Software – Unite
Was habe ich gelacht:
Opera Software reinvents complete irrelevance • The Register.
Hier meine Highlights:
You can point this web server at your perfectly legal collection of music ripped from CDs you own, recordings of live performances, and MP3s from local bands that remain unsigned for a reason, and share your music over the internet. Now, my history is a little weak, but I think somebody has tried that before.
Honestly I can’t blame Opera for that part not working. After all, they’re the first ones ever to write a computer program that plays sound, and they don’t exactly have a reference implementation to look at.
You see, one of the reasons that many American programmers were disappointed that George W. Bush couldn’t be elected to a third term is that one good side-effect to his vision of spreading democracy around the world is that ASCII spreads around the world with it. If a thousand bombs have to fall for the world to be rid of multibyte character sets, then so be it.
Like everything else wrong with the internet, the cornerstones of Opera Unite application development are Javascript and XML.

