An Up North Web goes well with fish cakes
Up North Web is our meet-the-press-fest. It's a day for eating weird Norwegian food (such as fiskekaker), product updates and releases as well as some big-picture thinking about where the Web is headed in the future.
Our CEO Lars Boilesen kicked high and set off the event in a great atmosphere. There had not been so many international journalists in Oslo since the Winter Olympics in 1952.
Christen Krogh, our Chief Development Officer, showed off a bunch of new and improved features in Opera 12 for desktop:
- photo booth functionality - say cheese!
- with hardware acceleration and Web GL, a new and improved gaming experience in the browser (yes, there will be Angry Birds)
- an alpha version will be released on Thursday (most likely)
Download from m.opera.com!We released Opera Mini 6.5 and Opera Mobile 11.5 for Android. It features a data savings tool: a very cool feature in our mobile products that shows you how much Opera compression technology saved you from downloading data.
Warning - Marketing blurb (copy/paste and tell your friends): No matter what phone or tablet you own, Opera technology improves your Internet experience with less waiting time and lower data charges.
There was also a panel discussion - led by Mr. Internet, Ed Palumbo. He managed to get all the grown ups to sit down and behave. Good job!
Hanne from Opera is super stoked about Opera 12. Coffee was involved. We hope.
Lars Boilesen, our CEO, runs on bean bags, coffee and fish cakes. Here with Opera 12 alpha in the background - churning WebGL like there's no tomorra'.
We're putting together a video from the event to go live by tomorrow. Hope you liked this update so far. There are more pictures in the Up North Web photo album. Got comments? Questions? Shoot!
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About this article
| Published in | Choose Opera |
|---|---|
| Date | October 11, 2011 |
| Author | Anna Rohleder |
| Tags | fish cakes, android, up north web, opera mini, opera mobile |
| Original | Internet Archive |
Swapnil RustagiTuesday, October 11, 2011 3:31:51 PM
Now what does that mean? I am somewhat confused.
'an alpha version will be released on Thursday'
I wish you get a fix for 99/100 score on Acid3 test done by that date.
CoyoteeTuesday, October 11, 2011 3:36:02 PM
Espen André ØverdahlTuesday, October 11, 2011 3:41:22 PM
Originally posted by Swapnil99pro:
Angry Birds for Opera is coming.Swapnil RustagiTuesday, October 11, 2011 3:46:40 PM
Originally posted by EspenAO:
Huge Thanks for your reply. So that means like Google has Angry Birds for Chrome on http://chrome.angrybirds.com/ , Opera will also have something LIKE http://opera.angrybirds.com/
João DavidTuesday, October 11, 2011 3:52:35 PM
ClashCityRockerTuesday, October 11, 2011 4:29:31 PM
Originally posted by Swapnil99pro:
Not really important. The change that "broke" Acid3 actually improves user experience. Really they should take that test out of Acid3.
User experience should trump synthetic benchmarks every single time.
Patrick O'ReillyTuesday, October 11, 2011 4:31:51 PM
Originally posted by Swapnil99pro:
That URL already exists and works in Opera Next.
Looks like we've a really exciting build coming Thursday, but wouldn't the web be a better place if there wasn't the need for different prefixes for the Angry Birds URL.
Obese MauriceTuesday, October 11, 2011 4:33:13 PM
ALL THIS HYPE
Ruarí ØdegaardTuesday, October 11, 2011 4:34:35 PM
Originally posted by Swapnil99pro:
already have on internal buildsNujinTuesday, October 11, 2011 5:06:02 PM
СергейTuesday, October 11, 2011 5:14:45 PM
d4rkn1ghtTuesday, October 11, 2011 6:44:22 PM
Originally posted by EspenAO:
Charles SchlossTuesday, October 11, 2011 6:47:07 PM
Originally posted by Opera:
Sounds like a movie line
hmm when the alpha comes out will add it to my flash drive
Tiago WakabayashiTuesday, October 11, 2011 10:14:43 PM
it means you can take pics through the webcam using opera?
Adonis @ my.opera /friendspartyworldTuesday, October 11, 2011 10:36:27 PM
Originally posted by ozoratsubasa:
wowSwapnil RustagiWednesday, October 12, 2011 9:40:08 AM
Originally posted by ruario:
Thankyou for the reply Sir.
Stephen MurphyWednesday, October 12, 2011 11:06:43 AM
CoyoteeWednesday, October 12, 2011 3:39:20 PM
Swapnil RustagiWednesday, October 12, 2011 3:42:03 PM
Originally posted by Coyotee:
Yah! I was expecting a lot of videos. There is not even one yet.
Obese MauriceWednesday, October 12, 2011 3:59:12 PM
Originally posted by Coyotee:
+1
tomassplatchMonday, October 17, 2011 6:28:57 AM