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- Opera is a World Wide Web client, ie. a program for retrieving information on the World
- Wide Web via documents created with the HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Opera
- also supports secure connections via the Secure Socket Layer (SSL), which is used for online
- purchases or banking, where your personal information is encrypted before sent across the Net.
- Opera can also be used to retrieve information using FTP, Gopher and WAIS, and for
- reading newsgroups. The same simple user interface is used for all these services. You can
- also send electronic mail using Opera, or link to an external mail program.
- Furthermore Opera can play WAV and MID sound files, display GIF and JPG images, play
- AVI videos (provided you have Video for Windows installed).
- Opera has been written for Microsoft Windows, and uses the standard Windows program
- design philosophy. Users will therefore recognize most of the functions from other programs,
- such as text editing, etc.
- The menus follow the standards, the button bar has the normal sequence, and other features,
- e.g. the ability to have multiple windows open simultaneously, will be familiar from Windows
- use.
- The developers of Opera, are concerned that the program will be easy to use for as many
- people as possible, and so they have also included the ability to use the program with the
- keyboard, which will be useful for all those who are not comfortable with prolonged use of a
- mouse. The emphasis has been on fast and simple access to the important functions, and that
- it is also user-friendly for those with different handicaps.
- Opera's developers are also concerned that it should be possible to use the Internet without
- being a language specialist. It is always useful to learn another language, but the intention is that
- you will be able to buy this program in your own language. Opera has already been produced
- in:
