As for Opera, [link|http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=opera+dhtml&btnG=Google+Search|http://www.google.co...tnG=Google+Search] pretty quickly gave me [link|http://www.jwweb.com/20010824.html|http://www.jwweb.com/20010824.html], which talks about how Opera doesn't fully support DHTML positioning using JavaScript. (I had remembered people complaining about DHTML support within Opera, which is why I searched on that.) With Ajax becoming more and more popular, that will become a bigger issue.

But even if it is useable, the question is whether it is good in the sense that Todd said. A glance at [link|http://secunia.com/search/?search=Opera|http://secunia.com/search/?search=Opera] tells me it is not. Just glancing at the last 2 months of reports, I see 5 security vulnerabilities, 3 of which could wind up executing arbitrary code on the user system. (One is entirely Opera's fault, one is due to an OS/Opera interaction, one Flash/Opera.)

That makes it not good in my books. And the ungoodness would be obvious if a competitor set out, as Microsoft did, and deliberately tried to find the weak spots and make sure that lots of websites tickle them.

Cheers,
Ben