Opera may have just found what it needed

Today, the Opera Desktop Team and Jon Hicks both announced Jon's joining Opera as Senior Designer! This comes as very exciting news to someone who has had to continually add "...and Opera." to many browser discussions here in the States, even among fellow developers.

Jon's biggest challenge (and advantage) will, in my opinion, come in the form of making Opera approachable and continually usable to new users, without hiding its power from them. I definitely wish the both of them the best of luck, and eagerly wait to see what happens next.