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Love your devices: adaptive web design with media queries, viewport and more
By Chris Mills · Thursday, November 24, 2011 16
In this article Chris Mills takes a look at techniques and technologies that we can adopt to create adaptive (or responsive) web sites, including percentage units, media queries and viewport. He also discusses some recent happenings in the area, such as considerations for display on tablet browsers, object-fit, and the @viewport CSS rule. Read more…
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Opera for Devices: Out of Memory System
By Opera Software · Monday, November 21, 2011 7
Opera for Devices provides powerful mechanisms to strictly limit the heap usage of Opera. Memory is an expensive commodity on many devices and different programs may compete for the limited resources with unpredictable consequences. With the Out of Memory (OOM) system it is possible to restrict Opera to a limited amount of memory while ensuring good functionality. Read more…
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Building a web mapping application with Pergola and Polymaps
By Domenico Strazzullo · Wednesday, November 16, 2011 4
Mapping applications are very popular, and it is easy to embed a simple map on a page using something like the Google Maps API. In this article we are going to show how to build a fully fledged SVG-based, windowed mapping application using the Pergola framework and its libraries, with the Polymaps library plugged in, and tiles imported from Bing. Read more…
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Opera Mobile Labs 11.5 for MeeGo netbooks and tablets
By Mostyn Bramley-Moore · Wednesday, November 2, 2011 23
Since releasing Opera Mobile 11.5 for Android earlier this month, we have been working on an updated Labs release for MeeGo netbooks and tablets running Intel Atom processors. Read more…
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Opera Reader: a new way to read the Web!
By Chris Mills · Wednesday, October 19, 2011 13
In this article, we'd like to present Opera Reader, a new technology that builds on top of CSS to allow us to split content into pages that can be "turned" in a natural manner through gestures rather than point and click, control the positioning/floating of figures in multi-column layouts more precisely and provide a consistent navigation system for such content that is independent of your documents. Read more…
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Playing with HTML5 video & getUserMedia support
By Daniel Davis · Wednesday, October 19, 2011 11
Building on the famous exploding video demo by Sean Christmann, we're going to see how we can explode the video stream from a camera. With a few performance tweaks, this works surprisingly well both in desktop browser and on mobile devices. Read more…
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More fun using the Web, with getUserMedia and native pages
By Chris Mills · Wednesday, October 19, 2011 38
This time we are making available a very exciting build indeed, with support for both the
getUserMediamethod, enabling us to make use of video input from a user’s web cam, and native pages — codenamed Opera Reader — an innovative new set of CSS constructs that allow you to split pages up into paged media. Read more… -
Opera's lightweight themes
By Chris Mills · Thursday, October 13, 2011 65
Opera 12 brings with it a new lightweight theme system, which sits on top of the default Opera theme/skin and makes simple customisations much easier to achieve. In this article we'll take a look at how this lightweight system works. Read more…