A Journal from Behind the Trenches 2011

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Cloud browser "Bolt" is history

December 22, 2011 · by Haavard · 11 comments

Apple hands over patents to patent troll to do its dirty work?

December 13, 2011 · by Haavard · 1 comments

Apple using patents to undermine open standards again

December 9, 2011 · by Haavard · 18 comments

MediaTek + Opera = True(r)

December 2, 2011 · by Haavard · 6 comments

A brand new dev.opera.com

November 25, 2011 · by Haavard · 6 comments

Full ECMAScript 5.1 support in Opera still means that test262 is more than just marketing

September 13, 2011 · by Haavard · 10 comments

State of the Opera: Q2 2011

August 25, 2011 · by Haavard · 24 comments

Debunked: A Polish video did NOT predict the explosion in Oslo on July 22

July 22, 2011 · by Haavard · 2 comments

Major explosion in downtown Oslo

July 22, 2011 · by Haavard · 17 comments

Yet another unscientific report on browser security from NSS Labs

July 20, 2011 · by Haavard · 17 comments

Do you use several sets of custom keyboard shortcuts in Opera?

July 20, 2011 · by Haavard · 38 comments

Beware of misleading comments from Microsoft on JavaScript test suite "test262" and IE10

July 1, 2011 · by Haavard · 26 comments

test262 is not yet complete. It is still undergoing active development. Some portions of the ES5 specification have very complete test coverage while other portions of the specification have only partial test coverage. Some tests may be invalid or may yield…

From C++ to HTML5: Rebuilding a game using open web standards

June 29, 2011 · by Haavard · 8 comments

HAPPY CAPS LOCK DAY!

June 28, 2011 · by Haavard · 9 comments

Microsoft tries to step on WebGL, stumbles on its own feet

June 22, 2011 · by Haavard · 14 comments

Recently Microsoft published an article about a WebGL DOS vulnerability:http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/06/16/webgl-considered-harmful.aspxThe same vulnerability exists in Silverlight 5, here's a proof of concept (warning, crashes your…

State of the Opera: Q1 2011

May 11, 2011 · by Haavard · 26 comments

Annual Report 2010 for Opera Software

April 29, 2011 · by Haavard · 17 comments

Microsoft's "Native HTML5" nonsense

April 13, 2011 · by Haavard · 35 comments

100 million Opera Mini users - ahead of schedule!

April 7, 2011 · by Haavard · 11 comments

My Opera Mail has arrived

April 7, 2011 · by Haavard · 41 comments

Better than Opera!!!

April 5, 2011 · by Haavard · 16 comments

Opera Mini returns to GetJar

April 1, 2011 · by Haavard · 7 comments

Microsoft files antitrust complaint against Google... again!

March 31, 2011 · by Haavard · 6 comments

A week of Opera: Week 12, 2011

March 28, 2011 · by Haavard · 4 comments

How Opera Mobile for Android doubled in size

March 22, 2011 · by Haavard · 3 comments

My 30 minutes with James Randi: Viking blood, computers, and the importance of skepticism

March 22, 2011 · by Haavard · 6 comments

Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mobile 11 released (and Opera Mini 4.3)

March 22, 2011 · by Haavard · 5 comments

No more Opera for Windows Mobile

March 22, 2011 · by Haavard · 9 comments

A week of Opera: Week 11, 2011

March 21, 2011 · by Haavard · 5 comments

WebM support in IE9 without browser plugins

March 16, 2011 · by Haavard · 17 comments

Being on the bleeding edge of open web standards ain't easy...

March 16, 2011 · by Haavard · 8 comments

A Week of Opera: Week 10, 2011, and then some

March 14, 2011 · by Haavard · 10 comments

Shock and horror: Bing Toolbar allegedly copied RockMelt!

March 11, 2011 · by Haavard · 7 comments

The new operamail.com has arrived

March 10, 2011 · by Haavard · 27 comments

Mobile app site GetJar bans Opera Mini over Opera Mobile Store

March 9, 2011 · by Haavard · 17 comments

Due to violations of our T&C's Opera Mini has been banned from GetJar.

Opera Web Mail (operamail.com) is coming home

March 9, 2011 · by Haavard · 19 comments

US Justice Department starts antitrust investigation of MPEG-LA

March 4, 2011 · by Haavard · 26 comments

How to get WebGL and hardware acceleration working

February 28, 2011 · by Haavard · 21 comments

State of the Opera: Q4 2010

February 21, 2011 · by Haavard · 13 comments

Anatomy of a Barracuda

February 18, 2011 · by Haavard · 38 comments

Poll: What should we focus on when developing Opera?

February 18, 2011 · by Haavard · 50 comments

Congratulations!

February 11, 2011 · by Haavard · 8 comments

10 years at Opera

February 1, 2011 · by Haavard · 50 comments

Mythbusting Mozilla's Acid3 mythbusting

January 26, 2011 · by Haavard · 11 comments

The next time someone posts a comment about how Firefox still doesn’t score 100 on Acid3, please link them to this article.

John Gruber's fundamental misunderstanding

January 21, 2011 · by Haavard · 7 comments

VP8 (WebM) submitted to the IETF

January 20, 2011 · by Haavard · 7 comments

WebM vs. H.264 on the desktop: The numbers

January 17, 2011 · by Haavard · 50 comments

Is the removal of H.264 from Chrome a step backward for openness?

January 13, 2011 · by Haavard · 117 comments

Google removes H.264 support from Chrome

January 11, 2011 · by Haavard · 40 comments

Though H.264 plays an important role in video, as our goal is to enable open innovation, support for the codec will be removed and our resources directed towards completely open codec technologies.

More details emerge on Opera for Tablets, and... Opera Mobile 10.5?

January 4, 2011 · by Haavard · 13 comments