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Event Streaming to Web Browsers
By Arve Bersvendsen · Friday, September 1, 2006 9
One cool feature we added to Opera 9 is Server-Sent Events from the WHATWG Web Applications 1.0 specification. Using SSE you can push DOM events continously from your web server to the visitor's browser. This creates a lot of exciting opportunities for web application authors. Read more…
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What's a browser Security Issue, anyway?
By Yngve Nysæter Pettersen · Wednesday, August 2, 2006 1
A large number of people are looking for security problems and vulnerabilities in Opera and other applications. Some people don't like this, but I think it is actually fine. When done responsibly this can increase security for the application and is thus of great benefit to the users. However, when done irresponsibly, the activity can cause needless alarm and waste the time of the application vendors AND the end users. Read more…
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Opera 9 Beta 2
By Thomas Ford · Tuesday, May 23, 2006 1
We released the second – and final – beta of Opera 9 today. This will be the last major milestone release before the final launch of Opera 9. The most notable change is to the widget UI. You'll notice that we've included widgets separately in the menu bar. If you click to manage widgets, your widgets open in a separate tab, similar to our transfer manager. From this tab, you can add new widgets, open downloaded widgets and remove widgets you don't want. Read more…
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Adding a new dimension to the web
By Thomas Ford · Friday, May 19, 2006 1
Opera and Mozilla are actively working on providing a hardware-accelerated 3d drawing context for the canvas element, enabling authors to author high-performance 3d applications running inside the browser. Check out the screen-shots on our Web Applications Team Blog. Read more…
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Debugging SVG
By Charles McCathieNevile · Wednesday, May 10, 2006 6
Opera 9 has a lot of new features to help developing content Let's look at an example of debugging SVG. Read more…
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Beautiful, Scalable Web Documents
By Håkon Wium Lie · Monday, May 8, 2006 1
Opera 9 is built on a new version of Opera's rendering engine, featuring the some of the latest open Web standards. One of the most interesting new formats is SVG, or Scalable Vector Graphics. In Opera 9, you can not only create animated vector graphics but also let those interact with your AJAX applications. To learn more about the SVG implementation in Opera 9, visit our specification page. Read more…
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Opera 9 Beta
By Thomas Ford · Thursday, April 20, 2006 1
After a lucky 13 weekly builds on the Desktop Team blog, we are extremely proud to present the first Beta release of Opera 9. Read more…
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Developers Gone Wild:Opera Web Applications Team Starts Blog
By Thomas Ford · Thursday, March 30, 2006 2
Opera has been hard at work creating a browser that acts as a platform for Web applications. Our first step in realizing this new world was taken with the launch of Opera Platform, the first mobile AJAX framework. Then we turned our attention to the desktop browser. In Opera 9 Technology Preview 2, we added support for Opera Widgets. Opera Widgets extend and expand the browser's functionality in dramatic ways. Read more…