A Journal from Behind the Trenches 2010
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Google TV blocked. Imagine the protests if sites blocked other browsers than IE and Firefox!
Imagine the protests that would ensue if Internet services arbitrarily blocked video only to Internet Explorer or Firefox browsers!
Norwegian PR award for Opera Mini launch on the iPhone
In this year's product profiling we find a typical David vs. Goliath-case, where a small player succeeds in exerting pressure the big one - something a lot of people thought to be impossible. This is a well-integrated campaign, where the activities are…
W3C HTML5 Test Suite description updated to avoid confusion
The HTML5 Test Suite Results aims to help implementers write applications that support HTML5. In no way are these conformance tests to be construed as providing certification or branding of HTML5 implementations. The only claim that could be made is that a…
Is Internet Explorer 9 the most HTML5 compliant browser? Not quite.
Internet Explorer 9 has topped all other browsers in conforming with the HTML5 specification, including Google Chrome and Firefox, according to tests carried out by the World Wide Web Consortium.
Site compatibility: When being "too compatible" causes problems
For some time we have seen compatibility issues because Opera supports both addEventListener and attachEvent. In some cases this causes scripts to be run twice, in other cases attachEvent is simply used as an IE-detector, causing Opera to run the wrong…
A Week of Opera: Week 41, 2010
An exhaustive battery of tests on the latest developers' snapshot of Opera Software's latest 10.7 reveals a browser better suited for running modern Web applications than even Google's fastest developers' build of Chrome.
WSJ says Chrome is growing, Firefox stalling, but fails to connect the dots
The stall has prompted suggestions that Chrome and other browsers are outpacing Firefox in innovation.
EU antitrust case: Does the EU hate Microsoft?
David Hammerstein, ex-Member of European Parliament for the Greens, tweeted last week: 'SOS to everyone as sources confirm that Kroes is about to eliminate "open standards" policy from EU digital agenda; Kroes has been under intense lobbying pressure from…
Opera: The media=all of the industry!
Opera on your desktop, your phone, in your truck, on your Wii and coming soon: television. We are the media="all" of the industry.
I use Safari because I keep forgetting to download Opera...
I use Safari to browse the internet because I keep forgetting to download Opera, and Safari is OK... most of the time
Jon Hicks is leaving Opera, and you can hire him!
So if you’re looking for a icon/interface/logo/website designer or even character illustrator (the Mailchimp mascot has become the new ‘animal on fire round a globe’ request!) from May onwards, then please drop me an email.
YouTube fails to deliver on HTML5 promises
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 many similar HTML5 ideas and we want to…