ODIN blog 2010
New HTML5 features in Opera 11
With all the excitement of Opera 11's tab stacking and extensions, you might have thought that we had neglected our HTML5 commitments. You'd be wrong! After all, the browser that began the HTML5 work is unlikely to rest on our laurels.
ARIA highlighting extension
I was mucking around with Opera Extensions, largely to get a grip on how they work, and decided to make an extension that exposes ARIA information in a page, as I was travelling Australia and talking HTML5 and ARIA with ARIA-expert Steve Faulkner.
Opera 11 snapshot with better HTML5 forms, faster SVG, and improved extensions debugging
A Saint Nicholas present from the desktop team: a snapshot build with better SVG performance, improved HTML5 Forms support, and Opera extension debugging from Opera Dragonfly.
Opera Mobile 10.1 beta for Android is here
We've just released our first version of Opera Mobile for Android — you can get it from m.opera.com. It comes packed with features and standards support, with more things under way. A quick overview.
Let's talk Web Standards @ University of Oslo
I was invited for an evening of informal sharing with the good people from University of Oslo. Despite frequenting this campus many times in 2008, little did I know that the Faculty of Computer Science have such a huge reputation. This place is widely…
One week of extensions: a quick update
It's only been one week since our initial Labs release of Opera 11 alpha – which comes with support for extensions – and we're very happy to see that it has generated enormous developer interest, with our Opera extensions catalog steadily growing in size and…
Schöne neue Welt von HTML5 - WebTech 2010 Mainz
Für Frühaufsteher gab es heute Morgen an der WebTech 2010 hier in Mainz meinen Talk Schöne neue Welt von HTML5 – ein schneller Überblick zur Geschichte von HTML5, neue Syntax and Semantik, Formulare und natürlich die multimedialen "Fonzie-features" video,…
WebExpo in Prague
Having toured central Europe with the WebExpo guys in the summer, I was eager to join the actual WebExpo event in Prague this year. With a thousand registrants, this year's WebExpo covers a myriad of topics - from development, design, agile to startup…
Stockholm presentation and links
The slides for my Disruptive Code presentation are also available:
Upcoming Open Web speaking gigs
It's Autumn and the conference season is in full swing! As the Opera Developer Relations team has quite a number of Open Web talks planned for the next couple of months, we thought we'd give you an overview of what's coming up. Maybe we'll see you at one of…
Buffered rendering in SVG
One of the things recently added to Opera is support for the buffered-rendering SVG property. SVG content providers can use this property to provide a hint to the implementation about how often an element is modified so it can make better speed vs. memory…
Opera Mobile 10.1 for S60
This is a truly busy summer (or winter, depending where you are). Following the release of Opera Mini 5.1 for Android, Opera Mobile 10.1 Beta for S60 is coming to town, and with it we want to share with you some exciting new features.
WebExpo Tour - Geeks on the road
The week before, Opera had the pleasure of joining a bunch of geeks on tour in Central Europe. We started the tour in Bratislava and drove to Budapest the next day. On the third and final day, we wrapped up the event in Vienna. It was pure fun traveling and…
-o- vendor prefixed CSS supported in Opera 10.50 and 10.60
The CSS specification allows for vendor-specific extensions. These are usually (but not exclusively) used for experimental additions to the CSS specification that have not yet reached Candidate Recommendation stage. The following are used in Opera 10.5x and…
Build a SVG progress bar and win prizes
Opera is a long time sponsor of Web Directions and supporter of SVG, so when I saw their latest contest, I thought it would be of interest to our readers. Our friends at Microsoft have got together with the Web Directions crew, presumably to celebrate SVG in…
Scotch on the rocks
This was definitely a new and weird experience for me — attending and speaking at a ColdFusion conference, about HTML5 and CSS3! I had a lot of fun playing around with ColdFusion around a decade ago, but since then (after getting into all things front end,…
5 Questions for the Opera Mobile 10 Maemo Team
Göteborg isn't just a lovely sea port on the coast of Sweden, welcoming visitors with a warm sea breeze and the sound of sea gulls...it's also home to the group of guys that ported Opera Mobile 10 to the Nokia N900/N800/N810 Maemo platform. They call…
Opera 10.52 final for Mac is out!
Hello everybody! I think I can speak for all Mac users when I say that I am really glad to see the final version of Opera 10.52 for Mac released. The final version has been titled Opera 10.52, skipping a couple of point releases to make sure the final version…
Making your site mobile-friendly – RIT++ 2010, Moscow
I had the honour of being invited to speak at this year's Russian Internet Technologies (RIT) 2010 conference in Moscow. Unfortunately, due to the unexpected bureaucratic nightmare involved in getting a Russian business visa, I was unable to attend in person…
Vodafone Webinar: Designing a High Quality User Experience for Widgets
If you are a developer with HTML, CSS and JavaScript skills then widgets are your new toys. Widgets are applications built using web technology. They run on a huge range of devices, including mobile phones.
Opera Mobile 10 and Mini 5 final released
Earlier today, we've released the final versions of Opera Mobile 10 and Opera Mini 5. Both are totally free, so be sure to download them to your phone!
Opera Browser Standards support chart
Update: see the latest browser support chart listing web standards support for Opera desktop, Opera Mobile and Opera Mini listed here.
Opera Mini 5 beta for Android phones
Hot on the heels of our native Opera Mini client for Windows Mobile phones, we have now released a beta of Opera Mini 5 for Android. I've been using Opera Mini for the last couple of days on a Nexus One, and must say the browsing speed and experience are…
Opera 10.50 final for Windows is out!
This morning, we've released the much anticipated final version of Opera 10.50 for Windows — work on Mac and Linux versions is still ongoing, so stay tuned.
SVG Edit standalone widget
Who says that widgets can only be used for small, trivial apps? Certainly not Developer Relations' own Vadim Makeev, who took the open source, web-based, JavaScript-driven SVG-edit project and turned it into an amazing standalone widget that can hold its own…
The future of web technologies - Speak the Web, Liverpool
Spent a delightful evening at the Leaf Tea Shop & Bar in Liverpool last night as part of the Speak the Web series of "gig" style events.
Mobile application smackdown - openMIC Bath
Bruce's presentation Practical Tips for Mobile Widget development (which also useful for making normal Web sites that are "mobile-friendly") is available (I've removed decorative images so it was small enough to post to Slideshare):
HTML Experiments: Speak The Web, Sheffield
I was privileged to be invited to speak at the inaugural Speak The Web "gig" conference, in Sheffield on Monday 8 February. I demoed lots of HTML5, especially video.
Opera 10.50 beta is out!
Since the Christmas release of a pre-alpha build of Opera 10.50, our developers have been working hard to get the Windows version in beta shape: check out the Opera 10.50 beta page for all the latest features and enhancements. Personally, I really dig the…
Developing for Opera Unite
Yusef is used by developers to build their Opera Unite application. It is essentially a collection of libraries to help speed up application development.
Nalakuvara - a user customized Opera Desktop package
A great feature of Opera Desktop is customization. Through the many different settings, you can pimp your surf. Some users have gone to great lengths configuring Opera as a defacto browser for residents of their country, or speakers of their language. Today…
Free Widgets workshop from Vodafone at Mobile World Congress 2010, Barcelona
One of the most exciting technologies to arrive in the mobile arena lately is Widgets. If you don't know the name, think applications that live on your mobile device, that can look like native applications but are run using a browser rendering engine (with no…