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An introduction to meta viewport and @viewport
By Andreas Bovens · Tuesday, March 22, 2011 18
Support for the viewport meta tag in Opera’s mobile products has been around for quite some time — in Opera Mobile 11, we have made our viewport implementation more robust, added support for new mechanisms to deal with different screen densities, and included an implementation of our own @viewport rule proposal. So, what better time than now to give you an introduction to the various viewport related mechanisms you can use to optimize your site for mobile. Read more…
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Taking your web apps offline: A tale of Web Storage, Application Cache and WebSQL
By Shwetank Dixit · Tuesday, March 22, 2011 5
To make applications run fully offline, we should make ourselves familiar with three very interesting technologies: The HTML5 Application Cache, Web Storage and WebSQL Databases. This article looks at al three, showing how they can be used together to create an effective offline application. Read more…
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CSS3 Multi-column layout
By Molly E. Holzschlag · Thursday, March 17, 2011 3
Multiple column design that allows text to flow naturally from column to column depending on width and other parameters has proven invaluable in print design, crossing languages, cultures and a range of media. The good news is that now it is coming to web design, courtesy of the CSS3 Multi-column Layout Module. In this article we show you how to get to grips with it. Read more…
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CSS3 linear gradients
By Chris Mills · Thursday, March 17, 2011 15
This article shows you how to use CSS3 linear gradients, newly supported in Opera 11.10, to add special effects to your design work. Read more…
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Make your site shine in Speed Dial
By Tiffany Brown · Friday, March 11, 2011 30
This article covers the new Opera Speed Dial enhancements, including using custom icons and CSS, view-mode, and the X-Purpose header. Read more…
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Introducing WOFF (Web Open Font Format)
By Zi Bin Cheah · Wednesday, March 9, 2011 4
This article introduces the new Web Open Font Format or WOFF, explaining the benefits of WOFF, showing where to download and create WOFF font packages and presenting two WOFF demos. Read more…
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JavaScript array “extras” in detail
By Dmitry Soshnikov · Wednesday, February 23, 2011 2
In this article we’ll look at the functionality made available by the new methods of array objects standardized in ECMAScript 5. Read more…
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Simple HTML5 video player with Flash fallback and custom controls
By Bruce Lawson · Thursday, February 17, 2011 10
Want to put video onto your web page? HTML5 enables us to do this as easily as placing images with an
element – and in this tutorial, we’ll show you how the magic is done. Read more…