ODIN blog 2009
Opera 10.5 Pre-Alpha build released: the new additions
Today, we've released a pre-alpha version of Opera 10.5 on Opera Labs. Download it and give it a spin. Let us know what you think about it too!
Opera Indonesian University Tour 2009
Zi Bin and I had a wonderful two weeks touring Indonesian Universities with Putri. We visited 10 Universities in five cities and spoke to 2500 students.
A more accessible Opera Unite
This week saw the release of Opera 10.10 final complete with a more accessible Opera Unite. If you've not come across Opera Unite before it's a powerful platform that turns your browser into a server. This means that you can share content you have on your…
Opera 10.10 final and 10.2 alpha
On Monday this week, we released the final version of Opera 10.10 for desktop, with Opera Unite as its main highlight. Gautam gave a fine description on the Opera Unite blog last week:
Banking, the ActiveX challenge
I was invited to speak to a group of developers at the China Bank of Communications. It was an opportunity to get to know how the IT side of the banking sector works, and to ask them "Why ActiveX?"
HTML5 at London Web Standards
I was privileged to be invited to come and present at London Web Standards, and honoured that the tickets sold out within 45 minutes of being available. So, no pressure then ...
Future of Web Apps London: HTML5
I was privileged to be invited to speak on HTML5 at Future of Web Apps London last week. My talk was called HTML5: The Future of Web Applications (PDF 636K). It's a newly written talk that concentrates on the apps side of the language, rather than the markup…
Over the Air - presentation on universal access devices
I presented at Over the Air last week, a two day hack focusing on widgets and the mobile web. It was a great end to an already busy stretch of conferences with a day of presentations followed by an all night hack and presentations the next day.
Win a ticket to Web Directions South!
One of the most exciting conferences of the year is almost upon us, web friends. The Web Directions South conference in Sydney Australia, part of Australian Web Week, is running from October 6-9 and promises a wealth of interesting and informative talks on…
Keyboard accessibility presentation at Future of Web Design Tour 2009 in Glasgow
On Monday, 14 September, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Glasgow leg of the Future of Web Design Tour 2009 on the topic of Keyboard accessibility - basic steps towards a more usable and accessible site.
Opera at d.Construct 2009, September 3-4 2009!
Another great Brighton experience! Even a trip down to Brighton with no conference attached to it would be fantastically inspiring and jolly good fun, but to have another successful d.Construct to attend as well was a fabulous bonus. I'm always impressed that…
SVG Web Fonts kung fu
In conjuction with Opera 10, we have introduced seven Web Fonts showcases and other cool stuff in the Opera 10 experience.
Opera 10: We've Only Just Begun
I'm delighted to be able to introduce Opera 10 today to Web developers and designers worldwide, and to take a moment to tell you the reason why I chose Opera not only as my employer, but why Opera 10 has become my own browser of choice.
Using Opera 10 with the Mac screen reader VoiceOver
Support for the Mac native screen reader VoiceOver was added to Opera in version 9.5. This is a quick overview explaining what you can access using VoiceOver with Opera. I'm hoping it will be of use to people with screen readers and developers debugging…
Opera accessibility: where we're at
It wont be long until I've been at Opera a year during which time I've been exploring Opera's more obvious and less obvious accessibility features. As we look forwards at how we enhance the browser for better accessibility support for both users and…
Standards.Next: Cognition and accessibility
Not long now until Bruce and I will be running our next Standards.Next meetup this time covering cognition and accessible web design.
A call for education: How do we educate the web standards kids?
There have been some exciting developments in web standards education of late. I've pretty much got the core of the Web Standards Curriculum published, and there are translations on the way. I have also contributed to the WaSP InterAct project, which…
Standards.next presentations
Last Saturday, I had the pleasure to attend the first edition of Standards.next, an informal bootcamp about tomorrow's web standards, organized by my fab colleagues Bruce and Henny. A quick overview with lots of links to online resources:
Why is Opera Mini booming in Indonesia?
As shown by State of the Mobile Web Report, Indonesians' average page view is 400 odd pages and they also enjoy the second biggest Opera Mini user base after Russia.
Installing multiple Opera instances with separate profiles on Mac
Update 2011-01-28: From Opera 11.01 and onward, the -csp command line hook should be used instead of the PrefsSuffix method described below. See Daniel Aleksandersen's multi-installation blog entry for full details.
Opera MAMA - a sneak peek at headings, images and summary
MAMA has been busy these last few weeks and we have some early results coming in. Based on feedback and requests here is a snapshot of what the Web's made of and some quick and dirty analysis. The results are based on 4,225,113 URLs tested from over 250…
Unleashed in the East: Ukraine University tour April 26-30
I have to start this report by saying that there's nothing more eye opening than doing a tour in a CIS country - the turnouts (we had almost 800 students over the three universities we visited), the reaction, and the amount of Opera love was fabulous. It is…
Optimise generated SVG files with Scour
One of the issues with SVG is that to make any complex image involving things like paths, you really need to generate the initial file using a vector graphics editor. Even with formats such as HTML, automatically generated mark-up is most often sub par…
European Accessibility Forum Frankfurt, Friday 27th March 2009
When Martin Kliehm invited me to come over to speak at this conference about educational initiatives, I was very intrigued — I am a big advocate of accessibility because I am passionate about the web as a universal communication and education medium. But I am…
CSUN Tweetup and "Testing for standards compliant and accessible websites using Opera" slides
I was at CSUN last week, the technology and persons with disabilities conference held in Los Angeles. It's one of my favorite conferences as you get a chance to talk with some of the great and the good of the web development world and talk about all things…
SXSWi 2009, March 12-18, Austin, Texas
SXSWi 2009 rather unsurprisingly proved to be another week of incredible conversations, sharing joys with old friends and new friends, and putting together great ideas for future work (and play). As I sit on the second leg of my journey home, feeling slightly…
Gears for Opera Mobile
Over at Opera Labs, we've just announced an Opera Mobile 9.5 technology preview build with support for Gears, which allows you to store data locally in a searchable database, run JavaScript in the background, and integrate web applications with the desktop.
Surfing at BONDI
Opera recently announced that we have joined the OMTP (Open Mobile Terminal Platform). One major reason for this was to bring our experience of mobile and device development to the newly announced BONDI specification. BONDI is a new specification for…
Opera web standards curriculum: JavaScript in town!
We've sure got a treat for you this week! You'll be pleased to hear that the final batch of the Opera web standards curriculum core articles is now published. This includes the last of the CSS - an impressively deep study of site planning, templates, layouts…
Testing times: recession bustin’ accessibility tips
Web design budgets are always tight but in economic downturns they tend to get slashed even further. One of the first things to get cut back, in my experience, is accessibility and user testing. The short term view seems to be that this is a outlay of cost…
State of the mobile Web Report
Opera publishes a monthly report called State of The Mobile Web. It tells the world how the mobile web is shaping up by analyzing key metric data from Opera Mini usage across the globe.