The big news today is Opera launched Opera Unite. It is a technology that turns any computer or device running Opera into a Web server. With Opera Unite anyone can serve and share content and services directly from their own PC with one or more of their friends at the same time. It all happens through the browser, and it will work wherever Opera works. Good idea but it has serious security issues for networks. The chances of this new technology propelling Opera to the top of the browser market are not good and initial reviews have been mixed.
Here’s the real story for small business. There is no story. Opera has such a small presence in the browser market it is not, in my opinion, worth stressing over. Whenever there is big news in the browser world there is a ripple of panic through the development world to catch up. Our clients want their websites optimized for the new browser, or in this case browser environment, and we (developers) scramble to stay up on the latest changes.Given that we are all blogging, linkeIn, twittering, developing, meeting, designing and otherwise occupying our busy business day, it is my advice to put this new browser development at the bottom of the list.
The latest market share browser statistics continue to show Opera at the bottom of the list. IE - 75%; Firefox – 19%; Safari – 3%; Chrome - 2%; Opera - .4%
Libby Lucas
llucas@ccpteam.com
www.ccpteam.com