The black is overbearing and doesn’t meld with the title bar. The purple colour (a colour option picked up from an earlier version) clashes with the grey of any other window, that can be changed though. Words cannot describe how ugly this is on OS X. And then I saw this: (click to make large) “Finallyâ€, I thought, a serious design guy to iron out just how non-native Opera has always looked on every problem. I was genuinely happy about this move by Opera.
Jon was hired by Opera in October last year to look at the UI of Opera (something he himself has lamented about before). On initially launching Opera 10 beta you are greeted by the new skin, designed by well renowned British designer Jon Hicks (who also designed the Firefox logo). So it should be hoped therefore that Opera 10 will finally bring them the attention they deserve? Even with a massively healthier browser market, they have barely grown compared to competitors like Safari and Google Chrome. Often they have been first with new features, long before the competition, yet have always been far, far behind everybody in marketshare.
addendum: As an apology to the community for the reckless and inadequate review I will be doing it again, properly, taking into consideration your fine comments. Read More for why and a quick screenshot tour.
NEW IN OPERA BETA SKIN
The beta adds a new default skin and a couple of new features, notably “Turbo”, a proxy compressor for dial-up users, and tab previews. Opera 10 includes an improved rendering engine Presto v2.2. Opera have announced the general availability of Opera 10 beta.
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