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  • 18 ways to go back from where you came

    5 Feb 2010 | 4:20 am
    One of the things that Opera is famous for is allowing users to have a user experience that can be tailored to the way that each individual wants to use their browser. Because we use computers and surf the Web so much these days, it's great to learn shortcuts to help make browsing a bit faster. No other browser offers as much flexibility as Opera. To give an example, today we will showcase one very important browser feature that everybody uses constantly - Navigating "Back". ...
  • Raising eyebrows

    4 Feb 2010 | 5:35 am
    Good news, everybody! A Lifehacker article posted yesterday is all over Opera 10.50's skinning capabilities. Reader t.click's desktop sports an amazing, totally transparent skin for the Opera browser that uses Aero Glass to render virtually the entire interface. Lifehacker is now looking for more awesome desktop customization trick or fully-tweaked desktop configurations. Post it over in the Lifehacker Desktop Show and Tell Flickr Group or the Productive Geek featured desktops forum with a description of the programs and tweaks you used (and preferably links as well!), and they just might…
  • Opera Mini for Android

    3 Feb 2010 | 12:40 am
    Yes, we are working on an Android version of Opera Mini. We can't confirm when we will launch it, but we will launch it (in the future.) :sherlock: Just in case any of you were wondering.
  • Let's win this thing - vote Opera!

    2 Feb 2010 | 12:57 am
    During January, thousands of nominations were submitted by readers in a wide variety of categories including Best Major Desktop Browser and Best Mobile Browser for the first About.com Reader's Choice Awards. Based on the total number of nominations, Opera has qualified as a finalist in the Best Major Desktop Browser category and both Opera Mini and Opera Mobile have qualified as finalists in the Best Mobile Browser category! :yes: Throughout the month of February, you can vote for a winner in each category. Support Opera in both the Best Major Desktop Browser and Best Mobile Browser…
  • Adopt an Opera skin

    1 Feb 2010 | 3:53 am
    One of our long time members (and skinners) LarsKL, wants you to adopt his skins. This is your chance to be a part of Opera history as some of his skins date back to Opera 7! If you are able to maintain a skin, he will give it to you. However, he is looking for an individual who has to be dedicated and want to make the best out of his skins and continue maintaining the high quality they are known for! Check out this list of skins up for adoption and send LarsKL a message if you are interested! Skins up for adoption: Phoenity Qute Cocoa G.A.N.T. BeOS DOS Netscape Modern Opera IBIS iMacOS Lars…
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  • Huawei selects Opera Mobile 10 as China enters 3G era

    8 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am
    Opera Software today announced that Huawei, the China-based leading global telecommunications solutions provider, will preinstall Opera Mobile 10 on a range of mobile handsets. Huawei has long focused on creating value for its customers, and, with Opera Mobile the company can deploy a fast and feature-complete Web experience on multiple mobile platforms.
  • Connect to the world from your car

    3 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am
    Opera Software today released a comprehensive report on bringing the Web to in-vehicle computer systems, entitled "Web on wheels". In this study, Opera takes a look at its partnership with Ford Motor Company to bring in-dash Web browsing to Ford trucks and vans. While Ford is the company's first browser-to-car deployment, Opera predicts a growing need for remote access to the office while on-the-road.
  • Opera browser tops the charts in Ukraine according to gemiusRanking

    3 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Between November 2009 and January 2010, Opera surged ahead as Ukraine's browser leader, in terms of number of Web pages viewed. Opera users view more than 35 percent of all Web pages in Ukraine, according to the gemiusRanking report made by the Gemius Company. The full report is available at: http://ranking.com.ua/en/rankings/web-browsers-groups.html.
  • Facebook usage jumps 600% to become most-visited mobile social network

    26 Jan 2010 | 12:00 am
    Facebook® is now the most-visited social network on the mobile Web, according to Opera’s State of the Mobile Web report. Unique users of Facebook grew more than 600% during 2009, helping the site surpass VKontakte, formerly the most popular social network among Opera Mini users. Twitter® saw its usage increase more than any other social network, surging more than 2800% in just one year.
  • Opera Mini shortlisted for two GSMA awards

    20 Jan 2010 | 3:00 am
    Opera Software today announced that the world’s most popular mobile Web browser, Opera Mini, has been shortlisted for two GSMA Global Mobile Awards. The GSMA represents the interests of the worldwide mobile communications industry, and each February, it hosts the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.
 
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    Opera Watch
  • How to shorten URLs directly in Opera

    BAMAToNE
    23 Jan 2010 | 12:34 pm
    Back, in October, I wrote a blog post detailing how to shorten URLs using the Opera address bar. I use Twitter, and most of the time I use the Twitter Opera widget to do it. (Here is the newer version of the widget.) The widget will shorten URLs for you, but you have to be inside of the 140 character max or the “tweet” button is grayed out. In that case, you must shorten the URL yourself before tweeting, which is a pain. Your next step will be to browse to a site like tinyurl.com, shorten your URL, then paste it back into your Twitter client. This can be a pain. And now…
  • Opera 10.5 for Unix, plus an update for Windows and Mac…

    GT500
    1 Jan 2010 | 12:00 am
    On this first day of 2010, Opera Software has been kind enough to not only release a Unix version of Opera 10.5 for those Unix/Linux users who missed out, but they also updated the Windows and Mac versions. This has filled me with great joy, as I have been almost breathlessly waiting for the new Qt-less Unix release, and have been very much wanting an updated Windows release as well. At first glance, the new Windows version still suffers from a few of the same issues, such as not be able to right-click and insert notes. Granted I didn’t expect them to fix many of the issues that fast,…
  • Opera 10.5 – Faster JavaScript? New Features?

    GT500
    22 Dec 2009 | 1:53 pm
    First let me apologize to everyone for how dead OperaWatch has been lately. It’s been a long time since anyone has posted anything, and we’ve considered declaring it dead a few times. For those of you who still haven’t deleted the RSS feed, or who still drop by every now and then to see if we really are dead, then here is a quick overview of Opera 10.5: Opera Software announced today a pre-alpha of Opera 10.5, with promises of more speed, and new/updated features. Here’s a rundown of what’s new, as is stated on the Opera Labs blog: On the inside: Carakan: The new…
  • Opera’s newest invention is coming on June 16th

    Daniel Goldman
    11 Jun 2009 | 10:17 am
    Opera is planning on releasing a new, hmm… how should I put it, well let’s just say that Opera is about to announce something really cool on June 16th. The company is framing this new ‘thing’ as ‘Reinventing the Web.’ I’m excited about it; it definitely has the potential to be a game changer (for some). Opera’s hint: We start our little story with the invention of the modern day computer. Over the years, the computers grew in numbers, and the next natural step in the evolution was … www.opera.com/freedom
  • How to open multiple web pages from Opera Speed Dial?

    Tamil
    8 May 2009 | 2:58 am
    There are several ways to open multiple web pages. Bookmarking web pages to a folder, navigating to folder from bookmarks menu and clicking Open All Folder Items. Bookmarking web pages to a folder, giving nickname to folder and entering nickname in address field or setting nickname as home page in Tools > Preferences… > General > Home page. Opening web pages, saving them as session File > Sessions > Save This Session… and opening it File > Sessions. The advantage of sessions over bookmarks is it can store several settings (zoom, fit to width, images, etc.) per…
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  • Server Upgrade to 4.15.2444

    29 Jan 2010 | 8:00 am
    Yesterday afternoon the global Opera Mini cluster was upgraded to version 4.15.2444. The main improvements include better support for sms:, smsto:, mmsto: and mailto: improved reliability of synchronization using Opera Link many patches improving site compatibility fix for an issue related to progressive loading better support for Mini 5's download manager fix for some "clicking just reloads page" problems fix for unicode problems in regular expressions Unfortunately, server-side support for password auto-completion had to be temporarily disabled.
  • Opera Mini 5 beta 2 now available in 26 languages

    16 Dec 2009 | 11:57 pm
    We are happy to announce that Opera Mini 5 beta 2 is now available in the following languages: Bulgarian Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English (British) English (International) English (US) Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Indonesian Italian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Turkish Ukrainian To download Opera Mini 5 beta 2 in one of these languages, visit http://m.opera.com/next using your phone's native browser. If you have problems with the installation, delete your current one first, then try again. Known issues: In some languages, long words…
  • Minor Server Upgrade

    10 Dec 2009 | 7:13 am
    This afternoon, the Mini servers were upgraded to 4.14.1186 to further improve site compatibility and inform Mini 5 Beta 1 users about the availability of the second Beta. Moreover, the synchronization of speed dials for Mini 4 clients was fixed and the handling of login dialogs using placeholders for password fields improved. :yes:
  • Difference between Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10

    3 Dec 2009 | 4:33 am
    We get quite a few questions about the difference between Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10. This post will attempt to clarify. NB! Unless you have a Windows Mobile or Symbian/S60 phone, Opera Mobile is not available for you to download to your phone. Enjoy Opera Mini! First, here is what they have in common: Both are based on the same core technology, the Opera Presto browser engine (just like Opera for desktop). Both use the same cross-platform user interface, providing similar features and browsing experience. And the difference: In Opera Mini, the Opera Presto browser engine is located on…
  • Opera Mini 5 beta 2 is ready for download!

    1 Dec 2009 | 11:00 pm
    Finally, Opera Mini 5 beta 2 is here! ...
 
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    Opera Community News
  • Member of the Week

    5 Feb 2010 | 7:46 am
    Meet a 48 years old Swedish nurse who is "lost and found" in Norway. :lol: With her cool dogs and siamese cats, she has a passion for gardening, photography, animals and true Norwegian nature! All in all, she lives a wonderful life. :) Her blog is an oasis of wonderful posts and cool pictures, like this one: We highly recommend you check out AgnetaM's blog - this week's member of the week! :cheers:
  • Winter Photo Contest Winners

    1 Feb 2010 | 4:38 am
    Earlier this year, we kicked off the Winter Photo Contest, looking for the best winter photos. We were taken by surprise by the amount of submissions, so we'd like to thank everyone for submitting amazing winter shots! :cheers: It wasn't easy narrowing the submissions down to one winner in each category, but we believe the winning entries have all the elements we were looking for. :) We don't want any of our honorable mentions to leave empty handed, so we're giving away an Opera goodie bag as a token of our appreciation for their great skills in photography. :yes: Without further ado, here…
  • Member of the Week

    29 Jan 2010 | 6:44 am
    This week we highlight a true Opera fan. He started a My Opera blog to highlight Opera skins he was making, and a year after he's still going strong! :love: His primary skin Z1-TEN went final a while back, but his experimental skin, the Z1-Glass skin might be what you recognize him for! :yes: We can't wait to see what's next from Z1-AV69, this week's member of the week! :cheers:
  • Fine tuning

    26 Jan 2010 | 5:06 am
    My Opera has received a bit of overhaul lately, such as the front page caching and varnish hacking (yes, it's technical and awesome), but we've also had time to update other parts of our community service. :up: If you look at the "share this" icons, they are now horizontally aligned with a cool hover effect. The photo uploader has also been given a new feature; it now shows thumbnails during upload, and your latest photos are displayed directly after upload is finished. Choose Opera has a new top header image, which we hope you will like. :)
  • Member of the Week

    22 Jan 2010 | 4:52 am
    A popular Vietnamese blog written by a girl who some day want to become a teacher! Through her blog we're given a peak into Vietnamese culture and everything awesome surrounding it. :yes: For those of us who are not fluent in Vietnamese we've created a Google Translate link. :up: Keep up the daily postings Mi cong bé! Congratulations, you are this week's member of the week. :wine:
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  • The Mahabharata

    Tamil
    Sri Krishna and Arjuna on a chariot during Kurukshetra war in Mahabharata The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of India, the other being the Ramayana. Originally posted by ayayay1rancho: I was pleasantly surprised by the read. The Mahabharata is a very interesting read. Many of the characters had individual plots and agendas toward one goal. There were many personal conflicts, and subplots that led to many twist in this epic tale. I was kept spellbound by the next conflict between the good & bad of each family. The battle between two families to gain possessions and land…
  • Opera Community Member Statistics for 2009

    Tamil
    YearTotal membersNew membersAverage members per dayIncrease 2004127,000 2005266,098139,000381 2006606,982341,090934145.39% 20071,214,936607,9541,66678.24% 20081,950,356735,4202,00920.97% 20093,625,0891,674,7334,588127.72% = Approximate 27,386 members joined in a single day (June 17, 2009) :eyes: after Opera Software unveiled Opera Unite. The percentage increase in members increased more than 100% after 2 years. :up: My Opera will reach 5 million members in May and 7 million members at the end of 2010. Daily member statistics for 2009 Number of members vs. Month Average members per day vs.
  • Maximize Opera viewing area for better browsing experience

    Tamil
    I don't use any toolbars except tab bar to get maximum screen space for browsing. Here are a few tips to gain more space for viewing websites in Opera. Hide menu bar Shrink entire menu bar to a small button in tab bar File > Show Menu Bar. You can also remove menu button Right click on menu button > Customize > Remove From Toolbar and access menus using Alt key. Menu button Disable address bar Disable address bar Tools > Appearance... > Toolbars > Address bar and access address bar functions using alternate methods. To access address bar button functions use mouse…
  • Web page looks different in Opera?

    Tamil
    If web page looks different from normal then you might have enabled User Mode or style sheet. To bring back normal look disable all except Author Mode in View > Styles. Normal look (Author mode) Accessibility layout Block structure Outline Table of contents Look with various styles
  • Change Opera Speed Dial background image automatically

    Tamil
    I have more than 500 beautiful wallpapers :yes: including lone tree and images in Hindu Gods & Goddesses photo album. Changing Speed Dial background image is boring after several times and time consuming. So, I have added an option in Opera Launcher to change Speed Dial background image automatically with one of the images from specified directory after specified time interval. Set time interval to 0 days, to see new Speed Dial background image after every Opera startup.
 
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    Planet Opera
  • Dev.Opera: Widget control buttons

    Hans S. Tømmerholt
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:44 pm
    Widget control buttons ensure that a consistent set of basic controls – Move, context menu, Minimize and Close – are available in all widgets in “Widget” mode. See the top-right of Figure 1 for an idea of what they look like.
  • Dev.Opera: Optimizing widget graphics for mobile and devices

    Andreas Bovens
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:38 pm
    In this article we will explore a few simple techniques that will help you optimize the graphics inside your Opera widgets for mobile phones and other devices with limited resources.
  • FavBrowser.com: Weekly Browsers Recap, February 8th

    Vygantas Lipskas
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:18 am
    FBI’s Most Wanted: Your Browsing Activity The iPhone is the new Internet Explorer 6, says mobile developer IE8 is now the world’s top browser, says NetApps, as XP falls Mozilla to remove legacy Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger code in Firefox Fake Firefox Update Pages Push Adware Firefox 3.6 tips and tweaks Accelerate Firefox 3.6 page scrolling Google Translate Integrated In Google Chrome 5 Google Might Advertise Chrome, Nexus One or Google Apps at Super Bowl Finally! “Find in Page” Comes to Mobile Safari Huawei to preinstall Opera Mobile 10 on its phones for China Bolt Browser gets…
  • Lawrence Eng: Article link: "The diminishing value of friend recommendations online"

    lawrence.eng@opera.com (Lawrence Eng)
    8 Feb 2010 | 8:25 am
    I just wanted to point Opera Otaku readers to a recent entry I posted on my other blog, lainspotting: The diminishing value of friend recommendations online With an overabundance of people who believe (and are being led to believe by social media marketers) that their personal opinions matter greatly to everyone around them, it's no surprise that the signal-to-noise ratio surrounding personal recommendations has gotten lower...read more When I think about Opera Unite, I envision much more intimate and trustworthy connections, as opposed to the large and often impersonal friend lists found on…
  • Opera Desktop Team:

    Helge Gjølme
    8 Feb 2010 | 1:59 am
    We're still working hard on getting a beta version of Opera 10.50 ready for Windows. Here is the latest snapshot with some nice bug fixes. This includes the return of Java. Opera is now using the Java Plug-in instead of native Java. If you encounter reproducible crashers, please report a bug: https://bugs.opera.com/wizard/ Please remember to enter as much information as possible about the crash in the crashlog dialog if you encounter a crash. WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss…
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  • PowerButtons

    8 Feb 2010 | 12:41 pm
    On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 at 20:41 GMT, PowerButtons was edited by LittleBonobo: ‘Highlight selection’ button/ context menu item : changed name and improved functionality and description.
  • GmailImap

    25 Jan 2010 | 1:17 am
    On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 at 09:17 GMT, GmailImap was edited by XaleHaseo: Added link to the useful http://www.pcmech.com/article/setting-up-imap-enabled-gmail-in-opera-924/
  • OperaPythonUserJSSwitcher

    24 Jan 2010 | 5:57 pm
    On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 at 01:57 GMT, OperaPythonUserJSSwitcher was edited by NewAcct:
  • WebMailto

    24 Jan 2010 | 3:15 am
    On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 at 11:15 GMT, WebMailto was edited by BurnOut426:
  • WebDevToolbar

    22 Jan 2010 | 12:05 pm
    On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 at 20:05 GMT, WebDevToolbar was edited by TokaMame:
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  • 5-part JS quiz (link)

    Hallvord R. M. Steen
    Came across the blog post so, you think you know JavaScript? by Dmitry Baranovskiy. It's a pretty nice little 5-part quiz on JavaScript quirks. I admit I did have one wrong answer (the fourth one), what's your score? Rather than just linking to it I'll explain all the examples and why exactly you get the result you do ... but not just yet :) I'll first let my dear readers dive in and take the quiz. Explanations will follow in comments (unless you all beat me to it, of course).
  • New sitepatching blog

    Hallvord R. M. Steen
    Follow browser.js updates and news here
  • Tracking down finnair.com's missing i

    Hallvord R. M. Steen
    I guess Finnair is the household's favourite airline. I don't think I've used any other carrier during the last three years or so - we don't travel that much, so we're not talking many flights overall. However, it was rather annoying to find its website broken last time I wanted to look up some prices: Finnair site auto-complete menu broken, error in console After selecting a local site, the auto-complete menu to choose departure and destination cities from never populates. What's worse: the site doesn't accept anything you type in by hand! If you…
  • New adventures in compatibility testing

    Hallvord R. M. Steen
    I'm having some fun trying to figure out how sites use document.getElementsByName(), and thought some of you might be interested in the testing approach. The bug I'm investigating is a small and ugly one hiding in the document.getElementsByName() implementation - getElementsByName('someID') will find an element with id="someID". This is of course bad behaviour. That method has nothing to do with IDs and should find elements by name only. The good news is that it's trivial to fix. The bad news is that it's there for a reason, and the reason is called…
  • Onestat.com's browser sniffer older than my son

    Hallvord R. M. Steen
    Seems the boss has been browsing web stats again - I came across a bug report from him saying a DHTML menu on onestat.com only works once. (Load page, click any "demo" link at the bottom and try the menu on the left.) I'm not paying that much attention to stats myself, being too busy doing the work that will hopefully smoothen out compatibility problems and make it possible to grow our usage share. It's exactly the type of brokenness Jon found on onestat.com I fear the most - a bit hidden away, subtle, annoying when the user needs that page to work but perhaps not…
 
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    A Blog From Behind the Trenches
  • H.264 is royalty-free for Web use through 2015, but still not a good idea

    Haavard
    The MPEG LA (Licensing Authority) has announced that H.264 licenses for free internet video will be free until the end of 2015. I still don't think it's a good idea to use H.264 as the standard video codec on the Web.
  • Is Firefox doomed?

    Haavard
    Randall C. Kennedy at InfoWorld seems to think that Firefox is doomed. Why is it doomed? It isn't entirely clear to me, really. His argument seems to be that the delay of Firefox 3.6 shows that Mozilla is in chaos, and that their talk about restructing their development process means that they are in real trouble. That they can no longer maintain their product. Shorter release cycles apparently means that Firefox won't be tested much anymore, as they are bypassing the lengthy testing process and releasing numerous small changes without testing them (sufficiently) first, like…
  • No open video for Vimeo either, so what now?

    Haavard
    Hot on the heels of YouTube's failure to deliver open video, it seems that Vimeo has decided to introduce HTML5 video support as well. But like YouTube, they decided to go for a patent-encumbered and non-free video codec instead of Theora. While this is disappointing, there are other sites out there that are more than happy to lead the way into an open future. They may not be as big as YouTube, but one can hope that their early adoption of open video technologies will give them a nice boost.
  • YouTube fails to deliver on HTML5 promises

    Haavard
    The vote for YouTube to support HTML5 with open video formats was a huge success. Right now, the "Support HTML5 open web video with open formats" option has more than 12 000 votes, whereas the most popular request that is unrelated to HTML5 has about 5 000 votes. The HTML5 requests were so popular that YouTube had to hide them to give other options a chance to be seen: We've heard a lot of feedback around supporting HTML5 and are working hard to meet your request, so stay tuned. We'll be following up when we have more information. We're answering this idea now because…
  • Opera Software buys mobile ad company AdMarvel

    Haavard
    We have just announced Opera's acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMarvel. Google and Apple have both recently bought their own mobile advertising companies, and I guess Opera needs to position itself to remain competitive in the future. It seems that mobile advertising is where everyone is seeing the big bucks in the coming years, and it seems like a good idea to expand into yet another area and diversify our business. The big question is of course if you can make money from ads and at the same time make it useful to the user. Is it even possible to turn this into something the…
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  • "This is your brain on Kafka"

    Jonny Axelsson
    This Is Your Brain on KafkaAbsurdist literature, it appears, stimulates our brains. That's the conclusion of a study recently published in the journal Psychological Science. Psychologists Travis Proulx of the University of California, Santa Barbara and Steven Heine of the University of British Columbia report our ability to find patterns is stimulated when we are faced with the task of making sense of an absurd tale. What's more, this heightened capability carries over to unrelated tasks. In the first of two experiments, 40 participants (all Canadian college undergraduates) read one…
  • The SVG path

    Jonny Axelsson
    The last W3C working group I participated in, Multimodal Interaction (MMI), is at the periphery of the Web and is unlikely to make much of an impact on it in the foreseeable future. However they have produced a few interesting specs (and a few uninteresting frameworks), one of which I will return to in much greater detail later. The most obscure one may be InkML. The name might imply a language for tagging with paint, but is really describing the set of movements registered by a touch-sensitive tablet or screen so that the scribbles you make can be processed and enhanced by someone more…
  • Veien til fremtiden

    Jonny Axelsson
    To transportinnlegg på fremtidsblogg. Augustine-kommisjonen til Obama: Ingen måneferd før 2020 Kan høyhastighetstog bli ryggraden i vår megaregion? Cat free 9/9/9? Great, but what about all the other days?
  • Into the bog

    Jonny Axelsson
    This entry was actually made, well conceptualised, back in early July when I wrote several entries on HTML5 and XHTML2. If I made it then it could be considered prophetic, though it would only show a Nostradamus-style prophetic ability ("there will become a war, and in that war some people will suffer badly"). I lost that opportunity, but if something is worth doing, it is worth doing very, very slowly. And trust me, there will become a war, and in that war some people will suffer badly.
  • Dele, ikke stjele?

    Jonny Axelsson
    Denne uken kom det et opprop fra kunstnerdypet, iallfall noen av dem, som sa seg forfordelt, eller var det forforstjelt? At bransjeorganisasjonene ikke er velvillig innstilt til fildeling er knapt nytt, men denne gangen var kampanjen frontet av forfattere og utøvere. Gitt det 20. århundres historie gir forfatteropprop meg mange assosiasjoner, ikke alle like gode.
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  • More Single-key Shortcuts

    Rijk
    Now that Opera 9.5+ ships with a set of keyboard shortcuts where cat-owners are protected from accidental exposure to Opera's features by disabling the single-key shortcuts by default, I wanted to expand the shortcuts that can be enabled with the checkbox under 'Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Shortcuts'. After all, there is no need to be careful anymore with single-key shortcuts if only the happy few will enable them! Here's the current list: 1Switch to previous tab2Switch to next tab3Focus next frameShift+3Focus previous frame4Minimize page5Maximize page |…
  • A Compact Setup

    Rijk
    I've been playing around with a new setup, that should be usable, useful, but also 'small' in a visual sense. So without a menu bar! Almost all Opera functions will be easily accesible. But not necessarily all from the main toolbars, which was what the ribbonesque Twelve setup tried to do. For now I've named it Compact, but suggestions are welcome for something more memorable. (No, not Chrome. Scandium maybe? Zircon?) So starting with the Twelve setup, I removed lots of items (though many are still available from the Appearance dialog), moved the navigation controls back…
  • Lightning at sunset

    Rijk
    lightning at sunset Originally uploaded by wvs Testing the 'blog this' option from Flickr. This is my current desktop background image.
  • Updates

    Rijk
    [edit 2008-06-15]Updates updated: made the setups offered here compatible with 9.5 Final. Same URLs, a few new versions. I'm going from light blogging to no blogging apparently... a bad trend. I'm a little bit active on Twitter now, but not in a way that compares to my past blogging here. When 9.5 Final and Firefox 3 get released, I'll probably make an update for the Top 150 Extensions list. But my customized setups can already use some updates, the 9.2 versions will have some broken functionality when used with Kestrel builds. So here are provisional 9.5-compatible setups,…
  • Meme: In One Word Only

    Rijk
    Tim has tagged me in an internet game of answers, one...word...at...a...time. Where is your mobile phone? pocket Describe your girlfriend: happy Your hair: gone Your mother: ashes Your father: busy What is your favourite gadget? phone What did you dream last night? nothing What do you prefer to drink? coffee Dream car? none What room are you currently in? kitchen Your ex? nope Your biggest fear? fear What do you want to be in 10 years? myself Who did you spend last night with? twitter What are you not? talkative The last thing you did? eat What are you wearing? jeans Favorite book? LoTR The…
 
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  • The Mahabharata

    31 Jan 2010 | 7:10 am
    Sri Krishna and Arjuna on a chariot during Kurukshetra war in Mahabharata The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of India, the other being the Ramayana. Originally posted by ayayay1rancho: I was pleasantly surprised by the read. The Mahabharata is a very interesting read. Many of the characters had individual plots and agendas toward one goal. There were many personal conflicts, and subplots that led to many twist in this epic tale. I was kept spellbound by the next conflict between the good & bad of each family. The battle between two families to gain possessions and land…
  • Opera Community Member Statistics for 2009

    1 Jan 2010 | 4:00 am
    YearTotal membersNew membersAverage members per dayIncrease 2004127,000 2005266,098139,000381 2006606,982341,090934145.39% 20071,214,936607,9541,66678.24% 20081,950,356735,4202,00920.97% 20093,625,0891,674,7334,588127.72% = Approximate 27,386 members joined in a single day (June 17, 2009) :eyes: after Opera Software unveiled Opera Unite. The percentage increase in members increased more than 100% after 2 years. :up: My Opera will reach 5 million members in May and 7 million members at the end of 2010. Daily member statistics for 2009 Number of members vs. Month Average members per day vs.
  • Maximize Opera viewing area for better browsing experience

    30 Dec 2009 | 3:28 pm
    I don't use any toolbars except tab bar to get maximum screen space for browsing. Here are a few tips to gain more space for viewing websites in Opera. Hide menu bar Shrink entire menu bar to a small button in tab bar File > Show Menu Bar. You can also remove menu button Right click on menu button > Customize > Remove From Toolbar and access menus using Alt key. Menu button Disable address bar Disable address bar Tools > Appearance... > Toolbars > Address bar and access address bar functions using alternate methods. To access address bar button functions use mouse gestures…
  • Web page looks different in Opera?

    29 Nov 2009 | 7:27 am
    If web page looks different from normal then you might have enabled User Mode or style sheet. To bring back normal look disable all except Author Mode in View > Styles. Normal look (Author mode) Accessibility layout Block structure Outline Table of contents Look with various styles
  • Change Opera Speed Dial background image automatically

    24 Oct 2009 | 3:21 pm
    I have more than 500 beautiful wallpapers :yes: including lone tree and images in Hindu Gods & Goddesses photo album. Changing Speed Dial background image is boring after several times and time consuming. So, I have added an option in Opera Launcher to change Speed Dial background image automatically with one of the images from specified directory after specified time interval. Set time interval to 0 days, to see new Speed Dial background image after every Opera startup.
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    Dev Opera Articles
  • Adding a docked mode to your widgets

    Opera Software
    9 Feb 2010 | 10:57 am
    Opera Widgets are required to be run on various devices under differing UI constraints. In some cases, the UI needs to be interactive and in others only informative. To support this, Opera Widgets can be viewed in different modes, each mode giving the widget a slightly different environment to render in.
  • Mobile widget development process advice

    Opera Software
    9 Feb 2010 | 10:56 am
    Generally, we recommend that you develop your widget on desktop, test your widget in the Widget Emulator, and test on the phone when you're done.
  • Cross-device development techniques for widgets

    Opera Software
    9 Feb 2010 | 10:55 am
    This article looks at techniques, code examples, and tips for doing cross-device development of widgets. The techniques are grouped into the following sections: Usability, Architecture, Layout, Images and effects, Network, Client-server communication, DOM, and JavaScript.
  • Characteristics of widgets on mobile phones

    Opera Software
    9 Feb 2010 | 10:54 am
  • Opera Widgets: cross-platform applications

    Opera Software
    9 Feb 2010 | 10:52 am
    The Opera Widgets runtime is available on all platforms where Opera 9.x is available. This article discusses the nature of Opera Widgets, as cross-platform applications, goes through the benefits of their implementation model, and looks at some platform variations to be aware of when creating widgets.
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    User Centered
  • Usability Design Errors that Cost Lives

    2 Feb 2010 | 4:12 pm
    This is speculation so I leave you to make your own judgment. You may recall the Buffalo Crash last year that killed 50 people. One of those being a man in his house on the ground. What's interesting here is they are starting to release their findings and while training and fatigue are critical. So to is the design of the safety system used for command-and-control of the plane. The system, in the event of an imminent stall (based on computer calculations, not sensed-data), shakes the control stick used to control the altitude of the plane. Then, if a stall does start to take place, the stick…
  • Trickey form flow

    6 Jan 2010 | 2:18 pm
    I would design this login form to respect the "flow" of the fields with the eye. The "go" button is visually disassociated with the name/pwd fields, compared to the "why login on function" I would swap 'em. (if you follow the link, you just gotta check out Petey and Pokey! Best mascots EVER!)
  • Best way to ensure consistent results in your survey

    6 Jan 2010 | 2:11 pm
    Jeff Harrison found this screen while taking a survey for JC Penny's:
  • Future magazines and photobooks

    31 Dec 2009 | 8:19 am
    A hybrid proposal of several very good user interactions. ...
  • User Centered Design...HTC HD2- ringer shuts off when it's picked up!

    4 Nov 2009 | 12:27 pm
    It's a simple matter that just about any modern smartphone can do, but it's the fit & finish that make a great user centered experience. The HTC HD2 (which I'm impressed with) uses its accelerometer to silence the ringer when the user picks up the device. Great for those that fumble around in their purse or computer bag because they forgot to switch to vibrate (use Locale on the Android platform!)
 
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  • Encore Now Has Statistical Reporter And Encore Discovery, EBSCO Starts EBSCO Discovery Service And Ebrary With Data Sharing Tool

    3 Feb 2010 | 12:44 pm
    Encore, the discovery search product by Innovative Interfaces now has its own statistical reporting tool called Encore Reporter. For example, Encore Reporter can now tell staff circulation statistics for each hour, even at self-check stations, within a single branch. Plus, our rapid-iteration with development-partner libraries provides a steady stream of enhancements to the product. Our academic and public library customers tell us that they need to make smart decisions about staffing and collections and Encore Reporter gives them the sophisticated information they need, simply. Library…
  • OpenJurist Database With United States Code; IPhone Has New Book App, Learn Presentation Tools, Explore NYPL and ALA New Sites

    28 Jan 2010 | 1:08 pm
    My posts now have a lot more information to explore, so lets start right away. OpenJurist, a database that we wrote about before is now providing FREE access to the " to published court opinions and the United States Code" The Kept-Up Academic Librarian blog brings up the latest article in the latest article in the "7 Things You Should Know" series devoted to "Next Generation Presentation Tools". At the simplest level, most of these tools take the presentation off the desktop and move it onto the Internet. * Tools like SlideShare provide an online archive of the…
  • How to discover new ideas for library innovation

    20 Jan 2010 | 4:47 pm
    Last night I read an interesting article from Steven Bell, the author of The Kept-Up Academic Librarian blog called "New Ideas for the New Year". In the article Steven shares his thoughts on how to come up with new ideas to innovate libraries. It’s one thing to talk about finding new ideas and quite another to actually discover them. Even when individuals or organizations have great ideas and can implement them, sustaining even one over time is incredibly difficult. Like the explorers of old we must be adventurous in seeking out new territory to find new ideas to better serve our…
  • You Tell Creates Personal Online Magazine With Pictures, New Book From Librarian in Black Gives Tips on Technology Training

    12 Jan 2010 | 12:06 pm
    In the past week there were more library and technology events that we must mention. Sarah Houghton-Jan from Librarian in Black blog has a new book called " Technology Training in Libraries", "I walk you through setting up a technology training program in your library, including basic technology training (both online and face-to-face) and general tech training principles and tips.", promises Sarah. I am buying the book. Go to the blog for more details. ReadWriteWeb blog highlighted a new site YouTellYou, which allows you to create your own online magazine with pictures and…
  • Resources: New Mobile List With Resources from Welch Medical Library, Review of DOAJ And The Blueprints Databases

    4 Jan 2010 | 1:02 pm
    I am changing the format of my blog in 2010. There will be more posts, more often and in a little different format. The most prolific library blog in the first few days of the new year was Resourceshelf. Medical Librarians can now go to a comprehensive list of medical resources ( databases, drug guides; patient info ..etc). If I was a medical student or a doctor I will talk to the college librarian or IT department immediately on how to get hooked to these awesome information assets. ( Resourceshelf has more) Gary Price from Resourceshelf also highlighetd a review of Directory of Open Access…
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  • 5-part JS quiz (link)

    18 Jan 2010 | 10:44 am
    Came across the blog post so, you think you know JavaScript? by Dmitry Baranovskiy. It's a pretty nice little 5-part quiz on JavaScript quirks. I admit I did have one wrong answer (the fourth one), what's your score? Rather than just linking to it I'll explain all the examples and why exactly you get the result you do ... but not just yet :) I'll first let my dear readers dive in and take the quiz. Explanations will follow in comments (unless you all beat me to it, of course).
  • New sitepatching blog

    12 Jan 2010 | 5:20 am
    Follow browser.js updates and news here
  • Tracking down finnair.com's missing i

    14 Dec 2009 | 5:40 am
    I guess Finnair is the household's favourite airline. I don't think I've used any other carrier during the last three years or so - we don't travel that much, so we're not talking many flights overall. However, it was rather annoying to find its website broken last time I wanted to look up some prices: Finnair site auto-complete menu broken, error in console After selecting a local site, the auto-complete menu to choose departure and destination cities from never populates. What's worse: the site doesn't accept anything you type in by hand! If you haven't made a menu selection, you get an…
  • New adventures in compatibility testing

    2 Dec 2009 | 5:12 am
    I'm having some fun trying to figure out how sites use document.getElementsByName(), and thought some of you might be interested in the testing approach. The bug I'm investigating is a small and ugly one hiding in the document.getElementsByName() implementation - getElementsByName('someID') will find an element with id="someID". This is of course bad behaviour. That method has nothing to do with IDs and should find elements by name only. The good news is that it's trivial to fix. The bad news is that it's there for a reason, and the reason is called Internet Explorer. We've been…
  • Onestat.com's browser sniffer older than my son

    9 Sep 2009 | 12:34 pm
    Seems the boss has been browsing web stats again - I came across a bug report from him saying a DHTML menu on onestat.com only works once. (Load page, click any "demo" link at the bottom and try the menu on the left.) I'm not paying that much attention to stats myself, being too busy doing the work that will hopefully smoothen out compatibility problems and make it possible to grow our usage share. It's exactly the type of brokenness Jon found on onestat.com I fear the most - a bit hidden away, subtle, annoying when the user needs that page to work but perhaps not disastrous enough…
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    A Blog From Behind the Trenches
  • H.264 is royalty-free for Web use through 2015, but still not a good idea

    4 Feb 2010 | 1:19 pm
    The MPEG LA (Licensing Authority) has announced that H.264 licenses for free internet video will be free until the end of 2015. I still don't think it's a good idea to use H.264 as the standard video codec on the Web. ...
  • Is Firefox doomed?

    22 Jan 2010 | 7:46 am
    Randall C. Kennedy at InfoWorld seems to think that Firefox is doomed. Why is it doomed? It isn't entirely clear to me, really. His argument seems to be that the delay of Firefox 3.6 shows that Mozilla is in chaos, and that their talk about restructing their development process means that they are in real trouble. That they can no longer maintain their product. Shorter release cycles apparently means that Firefox won't be tested much anymore, as they are bypassing the lengthy testing process and releasing numerous small changes without testing them (sufficiently) first, like Microsoft. And…
  • No open video for Vimeo either, so what now?

    22 Jan 2010 | 4:04 am
    Hot on the heels of YouTube's failure to deliver open video, it seems that Vimeo has decided to introduce HTML5 video support as well. But like YouTube, they decided to go for a patent-encumbered and non-free video codec instead of Theora. While this is disappointing, there are other sites out there that are more than happy to lead the way into an open future. They may not be as big as YouTube, but one can hope that their early adoption of open video technologies will give them a nice boost. ...
  • YouTube fails to deliver on HTML5 promises

    21 Jan 2010 | 1:35 am
    The vote for YouTube to support HTML5 with open video formats was a huge success. Right now, the "Support HTML5 open web video with open formats" option has more than 12 000 votes, whereas the most popular request that is unrelated to HTML5 has about 5 000 votes. The HTML5 requests were so popular that YouTube had to hide them to give other options a chance to be seen: We've heard a lot of feedback around supporting HTML5 and are working hard to meet your request, so stay tuned. We'll be following up when we have more information. We're answering this idea now because there are so…
  • Opera Software buys mobile ad company AdMarvel

    20 Jan 2010 | 6:54 am
    We have just announced Opera's acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMarvel. Google and Apple have both recently bought their own mobile advertising companies, and I guess Opera needs to position itself to remain competitive in the future. It seems that mobile advertising is where everyone is seeing the big bucks in the coming years, and it seems like a good idea to expand into yet another area and diversify our business. The big question is of course if you can make money from ads and at the same time make it useful to the user. Is it even possible to turn this into something the user…
 
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  • Acid3 and more

    Haavard
    Ready for another build? We've fixed a few crash bugs, and Carakan has been updated to made sure Acid3 shows 100/100. Middle-click scrolling should also be working. If you are having problems with Java, please check that the Java plugin is listed in opera:plugins, and that you are using Java 1.6 (not 1.4 or 1.5). WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all. Download Windows MSI / Windows Classic
  • Java is back

    Helge Gjølme
    We're still working hard on getting a beta version of Opera 10.50 ready for Windows. Here is the latest snapshot with some nice bug fixes. This includes the return of Java. Opera is now using the Java Plug-in instead of native Java. If you encounter reproducible crashers, please report a bug: https://bugs.opera.com/wizard/ Please remember to enter as much information as possible about the crash in the crashlog dialog if you encounter a crash. WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss…
  • Approaching 10.50 beta for Windows

    Haavard
    We're not there quite yet, but we are close to releasing the official beta version of Opera 10.50 for Windows. Please focus mostly on potential showstoppers. If there are any bugs that you believe are important enough to block a beta release, let us know. Take a look at the list of known issues first, though. There likely will be Mac and Unix snapshots next week, but right now we're working overtime to get Windows ready for beta. Please keep your comments relevant to the Windows version this time around. WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but…
  • Skin fixes, Unite, and then some

    Petter Nilsen
    After staffing up and accelerating the development process, we are now approaching the beta stage on Windows. This build has a number of skin fixes and improvements, a large number of bugfixes, and Opera Unite should be working again. We also have a new feature for you. WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all. Downloads Windows MSI / Windows Classic Mac (Intel) OS 10.5 or later UNIX
  • New snapshot

    Hey As you have noticed we are fixing tons of bugs, so now a new build for you guys to test. One new thing to notice is the new zoom control (only on win yet, but will come on other platforms soon) :) Don't forget to report bugs in the bug wizard.. Look out for regressions since 10.1 those are highest priority! HighlightsFacebook is working again A new view button to the right on the status bar adds a zoom slider (Windows-only for now) Work on tab management (MDI) Skin fixes, such as a glow on the personal bar to make the text readable (Windows 7/Vista) Stability fixes WARNING: This is a…
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    Outpost Users Support Forum
  • V6.7.3 blocked 2 e-mails

    Heyyou
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:30 am
    Hi, Yesterday I upgraded to V6.7.3 FW. Later I attempted to register at 2 Google Chrome forums. After you type in your info the forum says it will be sending an e-mail where you click the highlighted text to complete the registration. After doing this I waited for the e-mails which never came. I investigated my OP and found that the e-mails were blocked. I have registered at many forums like this and have never been blocked. I am guessing the new anti-malware in V6.7.3. is a little over zealous. Does any one think that in the future I should put OP in learning mode before attempting to do the…
  • SVCHOST.EXE.936 in/out summary only

    Escalader
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:52 am
    Here is a log entry from W7 64 bit with OP FW Pro 2009 6.7.3.3058. Before asking our vendor I would appreciate it if any body else sees a similar entry. ie in/out bytes at summary level but none at detail level. Comments as always welcome! Attached Images SVCHOST_EXE_936_log.png (182.2 KB)
  • acs.exe at 40%

    Injen
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:55 am
    Hi again guys. I noticew todad that my acs.exe is constant at 35-40% of the cpu, and after couple days the computer is so slow so i have to shut down AOF. I use AOF Pro 2009 v6.7.2983.450.714 on a Windows XP machine that works as a DHCP server with 4 clients behind. I cant find any straight answer at the forum.
  • Outpost 6.7.3 (3058.452.0725)available

    Kurt W
    8 Feb 2010 | 8:14 am
    Hello Outpost User, the version 6.7.3 is now available.;) Release date: 8 February 2010 The following issues are resolved (only significant ones are listed): Service was unavailable if installing on a low-power PC Outpost Security Suite Outpost Firewall Pro Outpost Antivirus Pro
  • Strange mIRC problem

    Injen
    7 Feb 2010 | 4:34 pm
    First of all let me say sorry for my lack of English, but i'll try my best. Recently i installed AOF Pro 2009 v6.7.2983.450.714 on a Windows XP machine that works as a DHCP server with 4 clients behind. Well everything works great except my IRC client (if it's matter i'm behind a bouncer). I can connect normally as i always have done, but after 5 min or so my client first "freezes" (everything stop working) and later disconnect by it self. I notice that if i stay in a "busy" channel with alot of people/chat my client will stay up all day long :confused: This is very…
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    Web Browsers News and Reviews
  • Weekly Browsers Recap, February 8th

    Vygantas Lipskas
    8 Feb 2010 | 1:18 pm
    FBI’s Most Wanted: Your Browsing Activity The iPhone is the new Internet Explorer 6, says mobile developer IE8 is now the world’s top browser, says NetApps, as XP falls Mozilla to remove legacy Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger code in Firefox Fake Firefox Update Pages Push Adware Firefox 3.6 tips and tweaks Accelerate Firefox 3.6 page scrolling Google Translate Integrated In Google Chrome 5 Google Might Advertise Chrome, Nexus One or Google Apps at Super Bowl Finally! “Find in Page” Comes to Mobile Safari Huawei to preinstall Opera Mobile 10 on its phones for China Bolt Browser gets…
  • Open Firefox 3.6 Tabs in Far Right

    Vygantas Lipskas
    7 Feb 2010 | 5:34 am
    Instead of opening new tabs in far right (right after the last tab), Firefox 3.6 uses bit different approach, which might not be appreciated by some of the users. If you would like to change this behavior, here is a quick to follow tutorial: Enter about:config in the address bar Find tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent Right-click on it and select “Toggle” That’s it. Enjoy.
  • Google to Kill IE6 Gmail Support in 2010

    Vygantas Lipskas
    5 Feb 2010 | 11:07 am
    Just recently, search engine giant halted older browsers support for few of their apps. Turns out, it’s only the beginning, as Google spokesman said: “We plan to stop supporting older browsers for the rest of the Google Apps suite, including Gmail, later in 2010″. This move is slightly unexpected, as IE6 still owns 20% of browser market share. As for older browsers quote, Firefox 2.0, Safari 2.0 and Chrome 3.0 won’t be supported as well.
  • Chrome Grabs 5% Market Share as Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera Share Goes Down

    Vygantas Lipskas
    3 Feb 2010 | 12:59 pm
    Microsoft Internet Explorer lost yet another chunk of market share, and went down from 62.69% to 62.12% (0.57 point decrease). For a third time in a row, Mozilla Firefox lost more market share, as it fell from 24.61% to 24.43% (0.18 point decrease). Yet another huge gain for Chrome web browser; moving up, from 4.63% to 5.22%, making it a 0.59 point increase. Slowly but surely, Safari increased its market share by 0.07 point, up from 4.46% to 4.53% While we are waiting for Opera 10.50 Final release, this browser share went down from 2.40% to 2.38% (0.02 point decrease). No stopping for Opera…
  • Final version of Firefox for Mobile Released

    Vygantas Lipskas
    2 Feb 2010 | 12:31 pm
    This is it, ladies and gentlemen. The stable version of Fennec (or just Firefox Mobile) web browser for Maemo platform has been released. As for today, it’s recommended for Nokia N900 users only, although N810 and N800 device owners can try it as well. One of the key features in Fennec is extensions support, which heavily influenced Firefox for desktop popularity as well. Mobile version currently has over 40+ extensions to choose from, and more to come in near future. Just like some of Firefox Mobile competitors, this web browser also includes tabs, touch support, data synch (Weave…
 
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    Planet Browser News
  • Adding a docked mode to your widgets

    Opera Software
    9 Feb 2010 | 10:57 am
    Opera Widgets are required to be run on various devices under differing UI constraints. In some cases, the UI needs to be interactive and in others only informative. To support this, Opera Widgets can be viewed in different modes, each mode giving the widget a slightly different environment to render in.
  • Mobile widget development process advice

    Opera Software
    9 Feb 2010 | 10:56 am
    Generally, we recommend that you develop your widget on desktop, test your widget in the Widget Emulator, and test on the phone when you're done.
  • Cross-device development techniques for widgets

    Opera Software
    9 Feb 2010 | 10:55 am
    This article looks at techniques, code examples, and tips for doing cross-device development of widgets. The techniques are grouped into the following sections: Usability, Architecture, Layout, Images and effects, Network, Client-server communication, DOM, and JavaScript.
  • Characteristics of widgets on mobile phones

    Opera Software
    9 Feb 2010 | 10:54 am
  • Opera Widgets: cross-platform applications

    Opera Software
    9 Feb 2010 | 10:52 am
    The Opera Widgets runtime is available on all platforms where Opera 9.x is available. This article discusses the nature of Opera Widgets, as cross-platform applications, goes through the benefits of their implementation model, and looks at some platform variations to be aware of when creating widgets.
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  • Enjoy Super Sunday With Super Add-Ons

    6 Feb 2010 | 12:41 pm
    Are you bummed out about having to work during the big game? Do you have access to the Web at your job? If so, you can still partake in the excitement of the Super Bowl, albeit not on a 50-inch plasma screen. Let the RUWT? Toolbar keep you updated on the score and news from the game while you root for the Colts or Saints with other fans in the RUWT? Bleachers! Also, check out SportsFox for previews, up-to-the-minute scores, as well as plenty of other info from Miami. Enjoy the game! (Photo © Jed Jacobsohn - #96468688/Getty Images Sport) Enjoy Super Sunday With Super Add-Ons originally…
  • What Is Your Favorite Everyday Browser?

    4 Feb 2010 | 1:56 pm
    As the fourth day of voting comes to a close, let's take a look at one of the more hotly contested races in the 2010 About.com Reader's Choice Awards so far. Best Major Desktop Browser Opera 10.x had a really strong couple of days, racking up over 2,000 votes. However, Firefox appears to be nipping at its heels with 42% of the total votes at the time of post. Chrome currently stands in a distant third, with IE8 and Safari rounding up the finalists. With 3 weeks to go, however, this race is still completely up for grabs. Keep those votes coming in!What Is Your Favorite Everyday Browser?
  • Let the Voting Begin

    31 Jan 2010 | 3:47 pm
    The nominations have been tallied and the finalists named. Now the fun can begin! Voting for the 2010 About.com Reader's Choice Awards is underway, with seven browser-related categories in the mix. It only takes a few minutes, so cast your ballot today and make your voice heard. 2010 About.com Reader's Choice Awards: Web Browsers 2010 About.com Reader's Choice Awards: Other Categories Let the Voting Begin originally appeared on About.com Web Browsers on Sunday, January 31st, 2010 at 23:47:33.Permalink | Comment | Email this
  • Manage Personas in Firefox 3.6

    25 Jan 2010 | 12:31 pm
    The newly released Firefox 3.6 browser offers a number of exciting new features, including an innovative Plugin updater and improved JavaScript performance. One of the more intriguing features is Personas, which allows you to quickly change the look and feel of your Firefox browser. With thousands of colorful and creative themes to choose from, Personas gives you the ability to instantly give Firefox a fresh coat of paint as often as you wish. Formerly available as a browser add-on, Personas is now an integrated part of Firefox starting with version 3.6. As the first in a series of tutorials…
  • Final Day for Reader's Choice Awards Nominations

    24 Jan 2010 | 3:44 am
    The nomination period for the 2010 About.com Reader's Choice Awards ends today! You only have until 11:59 PM EST tonight to nominate your favorite Web browsers and browser-related software to be included in the voting process. The final nominees, 5 in each category, will be announced on February 1 at which point the voting will commence. The clock is ticking... Get those nominations in! Final Day for Reader's Choice Awards Nominations originally appeared on About.com Web Browsers on Sunday, January 24th, 2010 at 11:44:24.Permalink | Comment | Email this
 
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