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Progressive Enhancement and the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI)
By Christian Heilmann · Thursday, September 27, 2007 2
As a web developer, you'll know exactly how annoying it can be getting your sites to work consistently across all browsers and devices. Yahoo! have had the same problem as you, which is why they developed the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) to give you a solid set of solutions to cross browser issues. In this article, Yahoo! web developer Christian Heilmann discusses cross browser problems, how progressive enhancement helps you, and what the YUI has to offer. Read more…
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Can Kestrels do Math? MathML support in Opera Kestrel
By Charles McCathieNevile · Thursday, September 27, 2007 0
Traditionally, Mathematical formulas have been hard to represent using good old fashioned CSS and HTML, but a solution does exist. First, MathML, a specialised Markup language tailored specially for dealing with Math on web pages, has been around for a while. Second, the W3C has recently created a working draft called the MathML for CSS profile which deals with displaying MathML using CSS. In this article, we will show you how you can test drive this technology early using Opera Kestrel. Read more…
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New development techniques using Opera Kestrel (9.5)
By David Storey · Wednesday, September 5, 2007 3
Kestrel is the upcoming version of Opera's desktop browser (version 9.5.) The full version isn't available yet, but the first beta version is already available to play with, at http://www.opera.com/download/?ver=9.50b. Now that Opera has fully migrated to the new version of its rendering engine, Core-2, Opera Kestrel has a few new techniques available for developers to play with, including new CSS3 and SVG support, and a new JavaScript engine, all of which I will discuss in this article. Read more…
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Update on CSS support in Kestrel
By David Storey · Tuesday, September 4, 2007 0
While Kestrel is getting ready to spread its wings, we are currently busy adding new features to Core-2 and deep into the QA process. I've already mentioned the CSS3 selectors are done and dusted, but what else is new since the last report? Not forgetting about CSS2.1, we're adding support for white-space: pre-line;. This edges us ever closer to full CSS2.1 support. Read more…
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Evolving the Internet on your phone: Designing web sites with Opera Mini 4 in mind
By David Storey · Friday, August 31, 2007 1
Designing your web site with mobile internet access in mind is becoming increasingly important. Developing with web standards goes a long way towards improving the mobile experience, but there are also optimisation techniques available to improve it further. Fortunately, this doesn't mean a whole lot of headache, extra code, or alternative site versions. With today's new school of mobile browsers, including Opera Mini 4 (the new version of Opera's revolutionary mobile browser software,) all you really need to do (with a few exceptions) is follow a few best practices to get your web pages to provide a positive user experience, no matter what device is used to access them. This article shows you how. Read more…
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A first look at EV in Opera
By Yngve Nysæter Pettersen · Thursday, June 21, 2007 0
Here is a first look at Opera 9.5 ("Kestrel") with full support for Extended Validation (EV) certificates enabled. Read more…
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Extended Validation v1.0 approved
By Yngve Nysæter Pettersen · Thursday, June 21, 2007 0
As I posted earlier on Opera Labs, work has been under way to create an improved process, Extended Validation (EV), for issuing web site certificates that can give a higher degree of assurance to the user that the SSL/TLS website in question really is who it claims it is, and how to tell the browsers that this process has been used. Read more…
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It ain't EV 'til it's EV, all EV
By Yngve Nysæter Pettersen · Thursday, June 21, 2007 0
In the past couple of weeks I have been sewing up most of the loose threads in Opera's support for Extended Validation (EV) certificates, and have actually started testing something that resembles the final system. Read more…