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Opera Dragonfly Architecture
By Hans S. Tømmerholt · Tuesday, May 6, 2008 1
In this article, Hans S. Tommerholt covers the architecture of Opera Dragonfly in detail. Read more…
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Introduction to Opera Dragonfly
By Chris Mills · Tuesday, May 6, 2008 12
In this article, Chris Mills gives you the lowdown on Opera's exciting new developer tools release - Opera Dragonfly - revealing how to use it, and what all the parts of the application do. This is an alpha version, so let us know what you think! Read more…
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How to make a Voice controlled SVG game
By Mihai Sucan · Friday, May 2, 2008 1
In this article, Mihai Sucan gives us the lowdown on one of his interesting new game experiments - an SVG-based game controlled using VoiceXML. Read more…
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Opera Kestrel beta 2 is now available
By Chris Mills · Friday, April 25, 2008 20
This week we released an exciting new beta release of Kestrel, the new Opera desktop browser - beta 2, to be exact. Read more…
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Stop using Ajax!
By brothercake · Thursday, April 24, 2008 2
In this controversial article, James "Brothercake" Edwards argues that we should stop using Ajax (unless absolutely necessary) until we have ironed out the issues surrounding its lack of compatibility with accessible technologies such as screenreaders, and suggests how you can stick to accessible web standards-based techniques, instead of resorting to Ajax. Read more…
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Location-based publishing and services
By Premasagar Rose · Thursday, April 17, 2008 1
The web has been used to record many pieces of data - not only documents, and information on people and event details, but the time things occured, names and addresses, reviews of those things, what relationship people have to each other, and more. More recently, one attribute has really come to the forefront - the location of things, or geocoded data as it is called. In this article, Premasagar takes you through the world of geo data, showing what options we have for recording geo data, what tools are at our disposal, what people are doing with it already, and what the future holds. Read more…
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Getting started with Opera skinning
By Lars Kleinschmidt · Thursday, April 10, 2008 9
In this article, Lars Kleinschmidt introduces you to the basics of skinning Opera, that is, customizing the look and feel of the UI. We will publish more in depth articles later on, but this article is meant as a quick start tutorial on completing simple tasks such as customizing button icons. Here Lars covers where the skin files are located, how to package the files that make up an Opera skin, and how to make simple replacements of button and background images. Read more…
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Indexing and searching in Opera with Opera Quick Find History Search
By Pavel Studený · Thursday, April 10, 2008 6
In this article, Pavel Studený lifts the lid off Opera Quick Find History Search, an exciting new Opera feature that allows you to search the full text of previously-visited pages. Read more…