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Indexing and searching in Opera — visited pages search
By Pavel Studený · Thursday, April 10, 2008 0
In this article, we lift the lid off visited pages search, an exciting new Opera feature that allows you to search the full text of previously-visited pages. Read more…
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Origin of Opera Mini for Android - April 2008
By Chris Mills · Thursday, April 10, 2008 25
This article takes a look at one of Opera's latest and greatest projects - the creation of an Opera Mini version that will run on Google's Android open mobile development platform. Over the course of the article, we'll explain why we created it, how, challenges we faced, and how you can try it out for yourself. We'd like to encourage you to try it out, and give us as much feedback as you possibly can. Enjoy! Read more…
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Public Acid3 build
By Lars Erik Bolstad · Friday, March 28, 2008 5
Two days ago Opera reached a 100/100 pass rate on the Acid3 test for the first time and we published a screenshot on the Desktop team blog to back up the claim. I am pleased to announce the first public build with a 100/100 pass rate and pixel-perfect rendering! Read more…
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Javascript badges powered by JSONP and microformats
By Gareth Rushgrove · Saturday, March 8, 2008 5
Getting tired of maintaining all your social data on several different sites? Can't we have more data portability? This stuff is in the works, but for now, we need intermediary solutions. In this article, Gareth Rushgrove shows how to build a simple script that shares Microformatted data across domains using JSONP, JavaScript, and Glenn Jones' ufXtract tool. Read more…
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How to do Photoshop-like effects in SVG
By Erik Dahlström · Friday, February 29, 2008 3
Wanna add some polish to your site, the standards way? In this article Erik shows how you can save time and money on creating graphics and effects programmatically using SVG instead of doing them all manually using Photoshop. Read more…
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XFN encoding, extraction, and visualizations
By Brian Suda · Thursday, February 21, 2008 374
The XFN microformat is a great way to mark up HTML to describe the relationships you have with people you know, but what can you actually do with that data once you and your friends have put it up on the web? Brian Suda explores this in depth in this article. Read more…
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CSS text shadows and background sizing
By Christopher Schmitt · Thursday, February 21, 2008 1
In this article Christopher Schmitt explores a couple of great new CSS design properties available in CSS3 - text-shadow for creating drop shadows, and background-size for automatically resizing background images as the browser window changes size. Exciting stuff indeed! Read more…
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Persisting widget data across platforms and devices using Opera's XML store
By Morten Haraldsen · Thursday, February 7, 2008 1
The Opera XML Store is great new way to persist widget data across platforms and devices. Want to learn more? Read on! Read more…