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Introducing Opera Face Gestures
By Roberto Mateu · Wednesday, April 1, 2009 8
Today we introduce Face Gestures, a revolutionary technology designed to make interacting with your browser easier and simpler on computers with cameras. Face Gestures lets you perform frequent browsing operations with natural and easy to make face gestures. Read more…
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Find me! Geolocation-enabled Opera build
By Chris Mills · Thursday, March 26, 2009 20
Another great Opera technology release is with us — we are delighted to release the first build of Opera with Geolocation API support — you can use this to expose the browser's geographical position, and make use of it in your applications. Read more…
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Opera Turbo
By Roberto Mateu · Friday, March 13, 2009 5
We are launching our time-limited test phase for Opera Turbo, a server-side optimization and compression technology that provides significant improvements in browsing speeds over slow connections by compressing network traffic. Read more…
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Introducing Opera Fingertouch
By Chris Mills · Thursday, March 5, 2009 9
Today we introduce Fingertouch, a technology designed to make interacting with the Web easier and simpler on touchscreen devices. Opera Fingertouch provides visual feedback when you hit a Web link, and assists you when you come across multiple links or other selectable elements in close proximity to one another. Read more…
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Technology preview: Gears-enabled Opera Mobile 9.5
By Andreas Bovens · Friday, February 20, 2009 4
We’re happy to announce our Opera Mobile 9.5 technology preview with support for Gears, a Google open source project that enables more powerful web applications. Besides this Opera Mobile 9.5 technology preview, Gears is currently available for Firefox 1.5+, IE 6.0+, Internet Explorer Mobile 4.01+, Safari 3.1.1, and Android. Read more…
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Carakan
By Jens Lindström · Thursday, February 5, 2009 9
Over the past few months, a small team of developers and testers have been working on implementing a new ECMAScript/JavaScript engine for Opera. When Opera's current ECMAScript engine, called Futhark, was first released in a public version, it was the fastest engine on the market. That engine was developed to minimize code footprint and memory usage, rather than to achieve maximum execution speed. This has traditionally been a correct trade-off on many of the platforms Opera runs on. The Web is a changing environment however, and tomorrow's advanced web applications will require faster ECMAScript execution, so we have now taken on the challenge to once again develop the fastest ECMAScript engine on the market. Read more…
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Video, 3D canvas and File I/O: Repeat!
By Chris Mills · Tuesday, November 25, 2008 7
We've done it again! This article gives you the low down on our all new Opera desktop build with support for the HTML 5
videoelement, 3D canvas, and the File I/O API. Find out what it contains, and download builds for Windows, Mac and UNIX! Read more… -
All together now: Video, 3D, File access
By Charles McCathieNevile · Friday, July 18, 2008 11
It’s here, the newest singing, dancing labs build (so far...). This time we basically have the latest desktop build plus video, 3D canvas, and File I/O. And this time we have Windows, Linux and Mac builds — so all you Mac fans, you can now have an Opera of your own in Ogg Theora. Read more…