Opera neon for liux1/1/2024 ![]() We should really return to UI design techniques that made for usable UIs, instead of the shitty techniques used today that only lead to painful UI experiences. I have no interest in these browsers that keep screwing around with inefficient UI paradigms thought up by web designers, rather than real UI experts. That was the whole point of using borders and effects to try to give a three-dimensional appearance to UI elements: it makes it more obvious what they do and how they should be used. It's unclear what's a button, and what's a label, and what's an icon, and what happens if you click/press in a given area of the screen. With these awful flat UIs, it becomes much more difficult to determine how to interact with them. Well the screenshot shows that this browser appears to be stuck in the same rut that has plagued browsers, and UI design in general, for a few years now: these goddamn flat, unintuitive UIs forced on the world by Chrome, Firefox, iOS, Android and Windows 8/10. Watch the product video and the behind the scenes video.As much as modern desktop web browsers can do, their basic concept is stuck in a rut. Opera Neon is available for testing as a free download for Windows and Mac. However, some of its new features are expected to be added to Opera this spring. It will not replace the current Opera browser. Opera Neon is a concept browser, meaning a vision for the future of browsers. A split screen mode which allows for two pages to be used simultaneously.Snap-to-gallery, which allows users to snapshot and crop any part of a web page and save to the gallery for later use.Video pop-out, which lets users to watch videos while browsing other web pages. ![]()
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