<img src="{data}/news/old_attachments/images/ologo.png" align="left"><a href="http://www.opera.com/">Opera Software</a> has a recent press announcement, <a href="http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2002/07/20020702.html" title="Opera strikes accord with Macromedia: Macromedia to Embed the Opera Browser in Web Authoring Products">Opera strikes accord with Macromedia...</a>, which announces that future Macromedia products for the MacOS will use the embedded Opera engine to render pages. <bq>Opera will deliver a full-featured, embeddable version of its desktop browser to be integrated into a wide range of Macromedia Web development products. ... Opera and Macromedia will work together to develop and maintain an application programming interface (API) for an embedded browser on the Mac platform ... Opera's core technology will be used as default browsing technology in a number of Macromedia products on the Mac platform</bq> This follows closely on the heels of an announcement that every Opera download now includes the Flash/Shockwave player from Macromedia.