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Video: Opera Mini on the Android phone

提交: December 1, 2008, 9:04am CST 由 Daniel Goldman

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My old buddy Phillip Gronvold, who works at the Opera office in the US, demonstrated Opera Mini on the new Google Android phone to digi.no.

Watch the video (only the very beginning is in Norwegian, the rest is in English)

(Via ChooseOpera)

Related: The story behind Opera Mini on Google Android
30 million Opera desktop users

提交: December 1, 2008, 8:47am CST 由 Daniel Goldman

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In its third quarter financial results Opera revealed that it now has 30 million users of its desktop Opera browser. Nice.

For those of you keeping score at home, the usage is up by 40% since the end of 2007 and 55% in the past 12 months.

Some other desktop stats for you: Usage of the desktop browser in Russia, where Opera apparently has a 25% market share, has grown by 112% in the past 12 months, while Indonesia has grown by 115%.

Opera Mini, on the other hand, had 21 million users in October.
Opera 9.6 beta is out

提交: September 10, 2008, 10:25am CDT 由 Daniel Goldman

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The Opera desktop team today released the first beta of the Opera 9.6 browser.

Major new features include a nicer preview of RSS feeds and a ‘Low bandwidth mode’ for the Opera Mail client. In addition, the typed url history can now also be synchronized between various Opera browsers using Opera Link.

The new RSS feed preview allows you to preview the feed before giving you the option to subscribe to it with Opera’s built-in feed reader. This is certainly an upgrade from the previously unstyled feeds, though I hope Opera will also include some links to subscribe using other feed readers, such as Google Reader and Bloglines (FeedBurner already does this).

Read the changelog
Download Opera 9.6 beta
Marriott Mobile recommends Opera Mini

提交: September 3, 2008, 8:49am CDT 由 Daniel Goldman

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The Marriott is now recommending visitors to its mobile website to download and use the Opera Mini browser. Nice!

(Via: WapReview.com)
More reaction from Opera CEO on Google Chrome

提交: September 3, 2008, 8:38am CDT 由 Daniel Goldman

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Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner doesn’t seem to concerned with the newly launched Google Chrome browser. In fact he finds it kind of flattering that Google is copying many of Opera’s innovative features, such as Speed Dial.

The media rounds
Opera boss: Imitation is flattering - The Register
Google Chrome ‘borrows’ from Opera browser - PC Advisor
Opera CEO reacts to Google Chrome browser

提交: September 3, 2008, 1:29am CDT 由 Daniel Goldman

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Opera’s founder and CEO Jon von Tetzchner posted his thoughts on the Choose Opera blog about new Google Chrome browser, which was released yesterday.

Read: Choice in the browser industry - By Jon von Tetzchner
Guardian: Forget Firefox - I’m going back to Opera for browsing and email

提交: July 4, 2008, 12:40am CDT 由 Daniel Goldman

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Columnist Andrew Brown, of The Guardian, wrote a nice column yesterday about why he’s switching back to Opera from Firefox 3.

“With the release of Firefox 3, I mounted a private celebration: I went back to using Opera 9.5 as my main browser. This wasn’t just perversity. Firefox without its add-ons is clearly inferior to Opera. Firefox with enough add-ons to make it really useful is very much slower. And Opera has one advantage over all the competition which is enough to outweigh all its other faults to me.”

(Read the entire column)

- Hat tip: Keith Rapado
Opera’s Core team joins the blogosphere

提交: May 22, 2008, 2:32am CDT 由 Daniel Goldman

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The day has finally come. Opera’s Core team joined the blogosphere with its ‘Opera Core Concerns’ blog.

The Core team at Opera is responsible for the fundamental core of the Opera browser. It’s the rendering engine (and more). It’s what makes it possible for Opera to easily build their browser across all different platforms and devices.

Here’s how the Core team describe themselves:

“What we call “Core” at Opera refers to the platform-independent internal components of our browser. Opera delivers web browsers on more than a dozen different operating systems and platforms, on devices ranging from state of the art desktop computers via game consoles and TVs down to handheld devices with fairly limited processing power. The same Core code base is used across the entire product range. This enables us to deliver the same feature set and level of standards support regardless of the target device.

Being part of Opera for the past couple years, I’ve come to recognize the smart developers and engineers of the Core team. They are folks who truly know and work with the nitty gritty details of Web standards and core browser technology.

What I’d like to see them blog about
Ideally, I’d like to see the Core team blog turn into Hallvord’s blog, but on steroids. Hallvord, who does Core QA at Opera, regularly dissects the issues and problems with sites that don’t play well with Opera.

I’d like to see the Core team blog ‘regularly’ blog about and explain the issues (and solutions) that Opera has with certain sites. The benefits for such kind of blogging are enormous.
1. It creates an open dialog with the Web developers working on those broken sites. Fixing the problems will probably be placed on a higher priority.
2. Not only does it create an open dialog with the developers of those sites in question, it also opens the door wide for the Web developer community and gives them access to our Core engineers.
3. By highlighting the actual reasons of why certain sites break or don’t work in its browser, people won’t view Opera as a sub-par, deficient browser, but rather place the blame on broken code and the developers working on those sites.
In addition, I’d like to see the Core team blog about the enhancements and fixes that are made to the Core code. When new desktop builds are made public, the Desktop team generally brushes over only some of the many items in the ‘Core’ changelogs. I’d like to see the Core blog complement those changelogs.

My hope
I sincerely hope the Core blog will have fresh and interesting content on a regular basis, and that it won’t fizzle after the initial momentum.
Opera CTO Hakon Wium Lie discusses the early (and future) days on the Web

提交: May 12, 2008, 11:58pm CDT 由 Daniel Goldman

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Hakon Wium Lie, the CTO of Opera, is in Prague now meeting with Web enthusiasts and Czech Opera community members. He sat down with folks at root.cz and talked about the early days on the Web and his work with proposing CSS.

It’s an interesting interview with Hakon, which mostly covers his personal involvement in helping the Web move forward.

What I found most fascinating about this interview was his early vision of HTML and CSS.

After Netscape introduced the <font> tag and “color” attribute, Hakon fought hard against it.

“However, Bert Bos and I felt strongly that HTML should not degenerate into a visual language. We wanted HTML to remain a semantic language so the content could be presented on all sorts of devices, not just visual ones. Therefore we developed CSS. So, in a way, you could say that CSS was developed to save an even more important language, namely HTML.”

This vision is very much still alive today, especially with the upcoming HTML 5.

(Read the interview with Hakon)

(Hakon Wium Lie on his OLPC laptop)
Opera Mini 4.1 due out this week

提交: May 11, 2008, 11:37pm CDT 由 Daniel Goldman

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The Opera Mini team is set to release its first major update to the popular Opera Mini 4 browser. The update, Opera Mini 4.1, is due out this week.

Opera Mini 4.1 adds the following new functionality:
- Ability to search for text within a webpage
- URL suggestions based on bookmarks and browsing history
- Ability to download files directly to the phone (only on phones with JSR-75 support)
- Ability to save webpages for offline use (only on phones with JSR-75 support)
A beta version of Opera Mini 4.1 has been out since early April.
Opera Watch featured on My Opera homepage

提交: April 22, 2008, 8:37am CDT 由 Daniel Goldman

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I was pleasantly surprised to see a welcome message for our new Opera Watch bloggers over on the My Opera homepage (screenshot below).

(My Opera homepage)
Opera: Webware 100 winner

提交: April 22, 2008, 2:59am CDT 由 Daniel Goldman

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The Opera browser was a Webware 100 winner in the category of ‘browsing.’

Here’s what Webware said about Opera:

“Opera is one of the oldest browsers around. It’s also made its way into all sorts of consumer electronics, including mobile phones, gaming portables, and even home video game consoles. Opera has combined many technological services into its desktop Web browser and is commonly regarded as the first to implement tabs for viewing multiple Web pages in the same window.”

It’s interesting to note that IE7, Firefox, Safari, and Maxthon also won in the ‘browsing’ category. It makes you wonder, though, how much the Webware 100 awards actually mean…
Launching Opera Watch 2.0

提交: April 16, 2008, 11:57pm CDT 由 Daniel Goldman

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It has been nearly a month since leaving Opera Software; I’m adjusting to life outside of Opera. The new project, which I’ve started working on, has taken up lots of my time; it hasn’t left much time for blogging here on Opera Watch.

Opera Watch is a great resource for Opera users/fans and potential users alike; I really want to see it continue and be ‘the place’ for Opera news on the Web. My new project, however, hasn’t left me much time for full-time blogging.

I’ve asked a few members of the Opera community to join the Opera Watch team and help with the blogging.

I’m delighted to announce our new team, which will hopefully continue to grow over time.

New bloggers
Please help me give a warm welcome to Arthur Wilkinson (a.k.a GT500), Kyle Baker, Kelson Vibber, Tamil, Charlie Reinehr (a.k.a. BAMAToNE), and David Storey.

I suspect these names will be familiar to many of you.

I’m really excited to have David Storey, Opera’s Chief Web Opener, on board too. His knowledge of Web standards is immense and whose opinion I greatly respect. It’s great to have you on board, David.

I’m pretty excited to have these new bloggers on board. I look forward to a new era of Opera Watch.

As for me, I’ll still be blogging here, though not at the same rate and frequency (since starting Opera Watch in 2004 I wrote a total of 963 posts).

Here’s a bit about our new bloggers to help you get to know them better:

Arthur Wilkinson
Arthur Wilkinson has been using Opera on the desktop side since at least early 2001. He discovered Opera while learning Java programming. It was recommended in his first Java Programming book for testing Java Applets since it was the only Windows browser at the time that supported the Sun Java Runtime Environment. Since Arthur made the switch those many years ago he has found to love the advanced features, faster browsing, better security, and especially the trend to build in more features than he actually needs.

Kelson Vibber
Kelson Vibber is a web developer in Southern California. He was first introduced to Opera by a college classmate in 1999, when both were working in a campus computer lab. These days, he uses both Opera and Firefox on Windows and Linux on a daily basis, as well as other browsers for development purposes.

Kelson has been involved in promoting both Opera and Firefox, and launched the Alternative Browser Alliance campaign to encourage greater cooperation among both browsers’ fan communities.

In his spare time, he enjoys reading science-fiction, fantasy, and comic books, and has maintained a fan website dedicated to the super-hero, The Flash, since 1996.

Kyle Baker
Kyle Baker was born in Western North Carolina in 1986, where he grew up with his parents and two older brothers. His first chance to use the Internet was not until the year 1997 when his family got a brand new personal computer and dial-up Internet access. It was not for another few years before he was first introduced to Opera.

Kyle has been using the Opera browser for approximately eight years now. He mainly uses the desktop version of Opera, but has in the past used Opera Mini, Opera Mobile and Opera for the Nintendo Wii. Kyle first began using Opera as his browser of choice due to the fact that Opera’s tabbed browsing feature allowed him to accomplish tasks much faster over dial-up Internet access than other alternative browsers that he had tested. Shortly after choosing Opera as his daily browser, he became interested in web design and development which also led to an interest in web standards (an area that Opera has been very loyal in supporting).

Kyle’s current occupation is a full-time student. He is currently a computer science major at North Carolina State University. He does a little bit of web design as a hobby and voluntarily manages and maintains three separate web sites (a personal blog, a small forum for BMW automobile enthusiasts and a club website for A.C.M. and A.I.T.P. at North Carolina State University).

Charlie Reinehr
Charlie Reinehr works as an IT administrator at The University of Alabama. He is a frequent contributor on the Opera Forums and has been an Opera user for the better part of a decade. Charlie runs the largest and most popular Opera group on Facebook.

Tamil
Tamil has been writing Opera tips, tricks and tweaks on his blog since 2005. His blog, which reads like a FAQ, has become well read over the years. Tamil is also a very active member of the Opera Forums, with over 82,000 posts.

David Storey
David Storey heads up the Open the Web initiative at Opera. This small global team is tasked with improving the compatibility of web sites across Opera’s wide range of browsers, as well as promoting web standards, accessibility and good practices, so that the web will work for all standards-aware browsers, platforms, devices and users. On his blog, Slightly Ajar, he discusses this work, as well as random topics, from travel to music. David previously worked for CERN, home of the World Wide Web, before taking up his post at Opera Software.
Opera first browser to reach 100% in Acid3 test

提交: March 26, 2008, 6:30am CDT 由 Daniel Goldman

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Congrats to the Opera team on becoming the first browser to reach the 100% pass rate in the Acid3 test.

In an internal build of the Opera browser, the Acid3 test, which was only very recently released, reached a 100% pass rate.

A technical preview of this internal Opera build will be posted on labs.opera.com in the next week or so.

For now, the screenshot below shows Opera and the Acid3 test on the latest WinGogi Desktop build. WinGogi is the Windows version of Opera’s reference builds used for the internal Core testing.

It’s always nice to be first.

Opera passes the Acid3 test!
A word about Opera Dragonfly

提交: March 20, 2008, 6:48am CDT 由 Daniel Goldman

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I know many of you are waiting for some new information on Opera Dragonfly. David Storey just posted an update to his blog, not really saying much about Opera Dragonfly itself, but rather a bit more about its upcoming launch.
Leaving Opera

提交: March 19, 2008, 12:00pm CDT 由 Daniel Goldman

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Tomorrow will be my last day here working at Opera Software.

After working the past year and a half with some very talented people, I’ve decided to leave Opera and work on something new.

Being part of a team that literally has an effect on millions of people on a daily basis is truly an amazing thing and something that not many people get to do. With the exploding popularity of the Web, the browser is perhaps the most used application on the computer (and soon, maybe, even on the phone).

Before joining Opera, I was blogging here on Opera Watch for a few years as an observer to and outsider of the company. Now that I’ve been on the inside, I’ve learned much about Opera and the browser industry.

I’ve been privileged to work with a great group of people, many of whom I always wanted to meet prior to joining Opera.

Ever since I started using Opera on my computer around 7 years ago, I’ve been a fan. And now with Opera Mini, I’m leaving Opera a bigger fan than when I first joined.

I use Opera Mini on a daily basis; I’ve become a huge fan. I’m extremely amazed to see what our developers have been able to accomplish with this tiny, cool browser. In fact, I continue to be impressed every time I see new capabilities and features added to Opera Mini. It’s an amazing feat for an application with less than 100kb in size.

As a fan of Opera, I hope that Opera will continue to push the envelope and help the Web move forward in terms of implementing Web standards and coming forth with new ideas.

I’ll always be proud to say ‘I worked for a company that made Opera Mini, Opera for the Wii, Opera for the computer, Opera Mobile, and Opera on the devices.’

I’m proud to say ‘I worked for a company that brought the Web everywhere.’

What about Opera Watch? Will I continue to blog here? Good question, glad you asked. In coming days I’ll talk about the future plans for Opera Watch. I will, however, say that Opera Watch will continue to be the place for Opera news on the Web.
Opera Mini coming to the US with Helio

提交: March 19, 2008, 1:13am CDT 由 Daniel Goldman

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Today we had another first for Opera Mini. Helio became to first mobile provider in the United States (US) to deploy Opera Mini on their mobile phones.

Not long ago, Helio users got together and hacked the Helio Ocean phone to make it work with Opera Mini. It was a hit. Helio, the company, listened to their users and are now officially deploying Opera Mini.

Now that is something I would like and expect from mine and other mobile carriers/operators. Listen to your users, and give them the full Web on a normal browser.

Download Opera Mini on your Helio Ocean by dialing “67372″ (OPERA).

Opera Mini on the Helio Ocean
Opera’s progress with the Acid3 test

提交: March 18, 2008, 2:49am CDT 由 Daniel Goldman

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As you can see from the screenshot below of the Acid3 test, we’re working hard on it. Opera now passes 77 out of 100 on the test. I took this screenshot with the latest public build of Opera 9.5, build 9841 (on WinXP).

Congrats though to the Safari WebKit team; they’re up to 93% on the Acid3 test.

It’s great to see the browser vendors in an arms race over this. It sure will help with compatibility and moving the Web forward.

The Acid3 test on Opera 9.5 build 9841
A preview of Opera Mobile 9.5

提交: March 13, 2008, 4:06am CDT 由 Daniel Goldman

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The folks over at the Brighthand blog got their hands on the upcoming Opera Mobile 9.5 browser (screenshots and video). Head over to their blog, and read their review of the browser (Hint: they loved it).

“All in all, my first impressions of Opera Mobile 9.5 are very positive. If the final version is even better, then this application is on the path to be a serious competitor to Apple’s Safari as the most powerful mobile web browser. I suspect that once again Opera Mobile will prove itself to be an indispensable asset to serious mobile web browsers.”

Read the Opera Mobile 9.5 review on Brighthand.com
Rock Opera: Watch live

提交: March 10, 2008, 5:37am CDT 由 Daniel Goldman

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Watch live the special Rock Opera party we’re throwing at SXSW. The show will run from 17:30 CDT (22:30 UTC) to 22:30 CDT.

Visit rock.opera.com for all the details.

Rock on with Opera!

Live broadcast will start at 5:30 PM CDT

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