• Why the company will survive as the browser landscape goes through radical change
  • The company's involvement in the WHAT Working Group – a non-W3C working group of vendors (one that doesn't include Microsoft) that's focused on recommending standards for browser advancement and innovation
  • Opera's intentions to improve its presence in North America with the opening of new US-based offices
  • How the company has nearly doubled in size in the last year
  • Why the W3C may be too focused on the server-side of the Web equation
  • The potential role of multimedia clients in establishing defacto standard Web-access technologies and the implications for other technologies like digital rights management
  • Whether or not Opera should open source its technologies
  • Why the alternatives to Internet Explorer should remain devided as opposed to, at the very least, consolidating on a single, open source-based code base (like Mozilla) on top of which multiple players innovate in order to drive certain incompatibilities out of the market (and also to reduce some of Opera's R&D costs)
  • What Microsoft's Web sites are still doing to cause Opera's browser software to be incompatible with their Web pages.
  • The idea of AJAX-based applications, Google's role in them, and how Web-based applications are finally becoming the norm.
Between the Lines, With Firefox gaining steam and a new IE on the way, can Opera survive ?, 15 avr. 2005, David Berlind