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Network Service Discovery API support in Opera
By Daniel Davis · Tuesday, October 23, 2012 59
The Network Service Discovery API enables web pages to communicate with devices advertising themselves on the network via different discovery protocols in a peer-to-peer configuration. Now you can use JavaScript to find a UPnP server locally, browse its content and send that content to a UPnP client. This article, with links to experimental builds, shows you how. Read more…
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Introducing mobile browser automation
By Andreas Tolf Tolfsen · Thursday, August 2, 2012 45
Opera Mobile brings the Web to millions of people through their mobile phones and other non-desktop devices. Opera believes in giving people access to the full Web, and not making the distinction of a “mobile web”. To help automated mobile testing, we've updated the Opera Mobile Emulator so it can talk to our browser automation library, OperaDriver. Read more…
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A labs release to get your SPDY senses tingling
By Chris Mills · Friday, July 6, 2012 228
Opera is proud to present an experimental labs release that includes support for SPDY, Google's new networking protocol that enables performance increases across the web. Please try it out, and let us know what you think! Read more…
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Desktop build with new extension APIs: Screenshot, Resource Loader and URL Filter
By Chris Mills · Wednesday, May 16, 2012 213
We've been working hard recently to improve the functionality available inside Opera extensions, and today we are proud to reveal some of the fruits of our labours. In this article we'll share with you some new experimental desktop builds that feature three new extension APIs: the screenshot API, the resource loader API, and several updates to the URL filter API. Read more…
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Opera Mobile Emulator build with experimental WebKit prefix support
By Bruce Lawson · Friday, April 27, 2012 29
Through our site compatibility work, we have experienced that many site authors only use -webkit- prefixed CSS, thereby ignoring other vendor prefixes and not even including an unprefixed equivalent. This leads to a reduced user experience on non-WebKit browsers, as they don't receive the same shiny effects, even although they support them. To tackle this problem, we are releasing an experimental Opera Mobile Emulator build with experimental support for selected -webkit- prefixes. Read more…
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Extensions come to Opera Mobile
By Andreas Bovens · Tuesday, April 3, 2012 66
When adding extensions support to our Presto engine, a lot of time was spent behind the scenes so as to make our extensions framework very versatile and lightweight, with the aim of using it on other platforms as well. Today, we're happy to present you with an early preview of extensions running on Opera Mobile! Read more…
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Opera Mobile 12 for Android Ice Cream Sandwich MIPS tablet
By Chris Mills · Monday, February 27, 2012 179
Opera is proud to unveil a labs build of Opera Mobile 12, for devices built on MIPS architecture, which has already been run successfully on top of Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Read more…
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Opera Mobile 12 for x86 architectures
By Chris Mills · Monday, February 27, 2012 53
Opera is proud to unveil a labs build of Opera Mobile 12, for devices built on Intel x86 architectures, which has already been run successfully on top of Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Read more…