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A comment on Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blog comments.

Re:Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blo... by sucuri2 on Thursday November 25, 2010 @01:36PM (#1940770)
Funny to see an Opera guy suggesting a way to browse the web without using Opera :) He even says it is easier to read all the comments that way (via text using curl / wget/ grep) instead of using their browser (not that I don't agree with him).
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Re:Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blo... by earnubs on Thursday November 25, 2010 @03:01PM (#1940899)
I'd say it's more a criticism of the design of comment threads than the browser.
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Re:Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blo... by DisposaBoy on Thursday November 25, 2010 @04:50PM (#1941088)
If that's the case, shouldn't they/he be adding some functionality via plugin(or built-in) that improves the situation in Opera.
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Re:Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blo... by burgerbrain on Thursday November 25, 2010 @06:09PM (#1941209)
Why would you do that, if using wget and grep were easier?
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Re:Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blo... by nl on Friday November 26, 2010 @03:53AM (#1941940)
Because if he needs to do that, then presumably other people have the same problem, and I'd be reasonably sure at least some of them can't or aren't prepared to use wget, sed & grep to find things they did in another program.

Browsers already have history, so it seems to me it would be logical to extend that functionality to show how a page changed in response to an input somewhere in your history.

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Re:Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blo... by DisposaBoy on Friday November 26, 2010 @11:14AM (#1942632)
It's not easier. It's just easier than what we already have.
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Re:Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blo... by famrey on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @04:22AM (#1957352)
He isn't suggesting a way to browse the web without Opera.

He's suggesting a way to overcome design problems on a site.

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Re:Opera's UNIX dev on how he uses wget and grep to read blo... by nettdata on Friday November 26, 2010 @02:36AM (#1941839)
Yeah, but he's probably one of those guys that's still using Pine for his email.
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