Posts tagged with opera
Opera Mobile 10 beta for Windows Mobile
Posted on November 18, 2009 10:20 AM
Windows Mobile will now receive Opera Mobile 10 beta which is similar in both look and feel as with the Opera 10 for desktop and Opera Mini 5 beta. You do get a host of new features with Opera Mini 10 beta for Windows Mobile which ought to offer a close resemblance to a desktop-like browsing experience though, thanks to a new interface, the inclusion of tabbed browsing, Speed Dial, a password manager, pan and zoom and Opera Turbo. Apart from that, the new Opera Mini also plays nice with touchscreen-enabled Windows Mobile smartphones.
Opera Mobile 10 beta for Symbian S60 handsets
Posted on November 3, 2009 10:29 AM
Opera has just announced that they will make Mobile 10 beta for Symbian S60 handsets available, where it will work perfectly fine on Symbian S60 3rd and 5th editions, which means your cellphone doesn't need to have a touchscreen display to get started. Touted to have double the speed of older versions for Symbian, you will also benefit from desktop-like features including Speed Dial and tabbed browsing. [Press Release]
WebGL aims at providing in-browser hardware-accelerated 3D without plug-ins
Posted on August 4, 2009 12:39 PM
[SIGGRAPH 2009] The Khronos Group has just announced WebGL, an initiative that will bring GPU-accelerated 3D graphics into web browsers, without requiring a plug-in. Today, many developers opt for an ActiveX plug-in under Windows, or something equivalent on other platform. With WebGL, they will have a direct access to 3D accelerators from JavaScript. WebGL builds on the infrastructure laid out in HTML5, which some say could be a Flash Killer as well.
I wonder if developers will find JavaScript to be "too open" and might worry about the fact that their data and code might/could be seen by others (obfuscation should be possible?). It's really fun to code 3D engines, but the thought of doing in JavaScript doesn't really cheer me up. However, having the option of doing so is great, so let's hope that this will get some traction. The big names are on board: Google, Mozilla, Opera (where’s Microsoft?). Khronos oversees the development of OpenGL and of others open technologies.
Opera Unite: Your Web Browser is Now a Web Server Too
Posted on June 16, 2009 1:10 AM
Opera's goal is to enable users to share content, on every device, to every device. Opera Unite is a web server integrated in your web browser. By doing so, Opera allows its users to share files (an Opera account is required).
Opera has demonstrated how to share media files like photos (it takes a few clicks). Again, that's file sharing. The next demo is about sharing notes. Your friends finds your shared items via your Opera ID, that's why it is required. The next demo streams music over the web. You can make your music private or public (beware of the legal ramifications).
Opera Browser Beats iPhone Safari In Popularity Contest
Posted on June 3, 2009 9:36 AM
It is that time of bragging once again, and this time round the combination of Opera Mobile and Opera Mini proved too much to handle for iPhone’s Safari browser, as Opera's browsers took 24.6% of the total number of Web pages downloaded last month on handsets compared to the 22.3% that Apple’s Safari mustered. Depending on how you look at it, some might argue that iPhone's Safari still comes out tops as Opera has the advantage of its software being distributed through a wide variety of carriers and handsets, while the Safari remains an exclusive software on both the iPhone and iPhone 3G. Nokia takes third place with 17.9% of the market, while the rest...well, the lack of a podium finish doesn't deserve space in the news, eh? :P
