WarpCast published yesterday an information about the cancellation of the port of Opera Browser to OS/2, that its in course on NetLabs IDE. The problem is that yesterday Opera Software removed the OS/2 Section from his Project Magic and an OS/2 user saw and contacted the Opera Software webmaster. The webmaster informed that the OS/2 port "was cancelled". Today, September 13, Opera Software restored the OS/2 Section and the developer from NetLabs contacted WarpCast and informed: Opera for OS/2 NOT cancelled.

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Photo above shows the OS/2 Section in Project Magic page restored by Opera Software

Here his the first new from WarpCast:

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Source: Christoph Wichorski (christoph.wichorski@gmx.de)
Moderator: Trevor Smith (feedback@warpcast.com)
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The following message was sent to me by the Opera webmaster:

  Hello Christoph,

  Update- I asked the Sales and Marketing VP what was up with OS/2
  and he has asked me to remove that information from our web pages.
  It looks like that port of Opera will not go on.

  Thank you for your interest.

  Shae McKean
  Webmaster
  Opera Software AS


 
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Here his the second new from WarpCast:

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Source: Adrian Gschwend (ktk@netlabs.org)
Moderator: Trevor Smith (feedback@warpcast.com)
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There was a posting at Warpcast that the OS/2 port of Opera is
cancelled: this is definitely NOT true. As a member of the OS/2 port
list I know what I am talking about.

It looks like there is a communication problem in Opera itself, they
have problems in updating the web page because of hardware problems
but they promised me to do that as soon as possible. Currently the
Opera for OS/2 port gets 18 out of 20 points so no reason to worry at
all. (And no, I don't know why Project Magic for OS/2 is going, they
promised me to update it, not to remove it...)

I know that we have to release an alpha version to show the community
that there *is* a port, but this will happen as soon as we think it's
worth it to release one. I do have a version on my system.

The newsgroup for the port will be opera.os2 at news.opera.no

If you are interested in this port I recommend you to join the above
server, later if you are an alpha tester (everyone can get the alpha
as soon as it is released) you should post bugs to that newsgroup as
well.

I'm sorry about the misinformation.

Adrian Gschwend
OS/2 Netlabs


 
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