Does this really count as good news? The choice a user makes on the ballot screen is essentially random. That their downloads triple just says that they originally had very few downloads.
Ins and outs Opera is a very good browser, mine favorite. I think they just have that bad karma, possibly stuck to them from the ealy days when they used to display ads on the toolbar.
As a developer I either want complete and utter domination by one browser (so I only have to test on that one) or lots of browsers with reasonable market share (making standards compliance crucial).
The current situation is almost the worst imaginable. I have to develop for the (mostly) standard compliant browsers like IE8/Firefox/Chrome and then tweak for IE6 and IE7.
I believe this is good news because it's insurance against another IE6 coming along.
