Wednesday, 18. June 2008, 18:11:14
My wife just released a brand-new baby boy just between Opera 9.5 and Firefox 3 releases.
He was born on June 15th (it's Father's Day in USA). We named him Zoryan (Зорян) -- this Ukrainian name means something like "star" or "dawn".
The boy is big -- 4.471 kg and 55 cm tall!
Tuesday, 18. March 2008, 21:28:33
пожелания, wish list, Opera, wishes
Предварительный подсчёт самых популярных "хотелок" с
русскоязычной ветки форума на my.opera.com.
There probably will be English translation of Russian Opera wish list soon...
Итак, с большим отрывом лидирует...
1. Внесение усовершенствований в Закачки (Transfers) -- 14 голосов
Видимо, любит славянин файло покачать, и хочет чтобы это было максимально удобно.
Больше всего востребованы ограничение количества одновременных закачек и пересортируемая очередь.
Далее идут...
2. Общие жалобы на совместимость с популярными и не очень сайтами -- 7 голосов
Больше всего народ жаждет дружбы Оперы с гугловскими сервисами.
Третье место разделили аж 4 желания имеющие в активе по 6 голосов:
3.1. Требоване нормальной работы в автономном режиме (Work offline). Если сюда прибавить пожелания по улучшению интеррфейса (сделать различимыми ссылки доступные в автономном режиме), то можно присвоить этому пожеланию 2-е место с 8-ю голосами.
3.2. Улучшения лент новостей (News feeds). В частности категоризация или поддержка структуры папок и объединение лент в удобочитаемую газету по категориям или папкам.
3.3. Народ, вероятно, часто сносит Винду, а по этому озабочен
экспортом и импортом настроек, лент ловостей и всего остального одним махом. Не нравится копирывать вручную -- хочется цивильно -- через интерфейс.
3.4. Пролетариат требует (уже не первый год, кстати) обеспечить
работу с закладками прямо в меню -- удаление, редактирование, перемещение.
Четвёртое место делят два желания с 5-ю голосами:
4.1. "По щучьему велению, по моему хотению"
одним нажатием кнопки обновить все новостные ленты или выделенную группу. (Что-то помню усовершенствовали уже в 9.5...)
4.2. Не ставят ни во что нашего крестьянина...
Хочет народ файлы с исконо русскими именами правильно сохранять, и без "кракозябр"!Заключительное 5-е место из 3-х пунктов, набравших по 4 голоса
5.1. В индивидуальные настройки сайта (Site preferences) добавить выбор режима показа изображений.5.2. Убрать флеш-графику одной кнопкой!5.3. Самый страшный пункт!
Люди хотят поддержки
ActiveX, хотя бы на уровне plug-in. У-ж-ж-ж-ж-а-с!
Уже осуществлённые желания:
- Поддержка NTLM аутентификации пользователей (3 желания)
- Поиск по странице с подсветкой как у Firefox (2 желания)
- К индивидуальным настройкам сайта добавить кодировку (2 желания)
- Нужен сервис синхронизации закладок (2 желания)
- Когда выполняется щелчок средней кнопкой (не на ссылке), вместо курсора появляется крестик прокрутки. Второй раз щёлкаешь - вместо крестика появляется курсор, но остаётся там же, в центре экрана. Очень хочется, чтобы он возвращался туда, где находился перед первым щелчком. (1 желание, но видимо сильно хотелось
- Хочется чтобы фокус переходил на вкладку, следующую за закрытой или предыдущую ей (как в Maxfone или Фоксе). (1 желание, но знаю, просили многие)
- Запоминать последний тип сохранения страницы (1 желание)
- Адекватное перемещение страницы (вправо-вниз, вниз-влево и т.п.) зажатой правой кнопкой мыши как в IrfanView. (1 желание) Ctrl+Alt+mouse drag
- Хотелось бы, чтобы при сохранении страницы в списке ("Тип файла") на первое место было бы поставлено "HTML-файл с рисунками", а потом уже "HTML-файл". (1 желание) Желание исполнено, но пока не работает
- Значения масштаба просмотра не должны ограничиваться шагом 10 процентов — должна быть возможность выбора произвольного масштаба (если я хочу 112 процентов, то пусть и будет 112, а не 120). (1 желание) Да, будет так!
Monday, 3. December 2007, 20:58:18
browsers, market share, Opera, stats
...
Just created two charts from HitsLink data that show browsers trends:
On the first chart we can see a stable fall of IE. Yay! And release of IE7 doesn’t really help Microsoft. Also here we clearly see fast growth of Firefox and stable growth of Safari. You can hardly see Opera here in comparison to other 3 browsers, so I created 2nd chart that shows growth of non-IE browsers.
Here we can see that growth of Firefox is fast but not as stable as Safari’s. Netscape and Mozilla suite seems already a history — their small market share is slowly falling, recent releases of Netscape browser seems not help.
Opera hopefully will be “new Netscape of 2004″ in a year with market share of 2% or so — we can see pretty stable growth in last 10-12 months. Opera Mini grows fast and stable, so expect that it may outrun desktop version of Opera in a year or so.
I will update charts, so this post will show browsers trends up to date.
Thursday, 29. November 2007, 21:40:48
statistics, runet, russia, browsers
...
Monday, 1. October 2007, 18:27:36
accessibility, web 2.0
Now I can't browse a stupid catalog w/o JavaScript?!
Read more...
Tuesday, 18. September 2007, 20:25:17
яндекс, журнал, blog, я.ру
Created blog on beta.ya.ru
It's just a sting for import my posts from here:
13101.b17cf570426d3e88997acf1e90c21995.1190146942.d2a0a17d7ed4163dd908c98634451821
Read more...
Tuesday, 11. September 2007, 18:33:37
widgets, Opera, ajaxwindows
I can see Torus game widget, Widgetize, Weather and couple of other Opera widgets.
See additional screenshot and video inside...
Read more...
Wednesday, 15. August 2007, 21:35:18
mobile, russian, Opera
Opera Mobile
included in 10 most needed applications for Windows Mobile for PocketPC published on
3DNews.ru.
iXBT published
article about Opera Mobile 8.65 for Nokia S60 platform.
Thursday, 26. July 2007, 21:25:46
wishes, wishlist, Opera
In answer to
5 wishes Opera tag game started by Daniel Goldman.
I was tagged by
Eddie Lopez from
Usability blog.
5 wishes as user- cross-platform profile sync (bookmarks, news feeds, contacts, blocked content, etc.)
- better news feeds (folders, folder views, trash can)
- give more focus to Opera mail (don't forget to add ability of removing attachments)
- undo closed window or undo tabs from closed window(s)
- improved Notes (rich text, pictures, date stamp, sorting, integration of Notes and some blogging systems??)
5 wishes as web developer and web designer- native developer tools
- better source viewer/editor
- fix all known bugs in CSS 2.1
- support parts of CSS 3: border-radius, selectors, multiple backgrounds, RGBA, box-shadow
- XSLT document() function
5 wishes as Opera fan and tester:- better icon (logo of Opera browser, not company)
- better update system
- open or half-open bug tracking system (ability to see at least your own submissions)
- better handling of needed but not presented plug-ins
- "I prefer ergonomics over being a populist platform." Eddie Lopez' wish #4
Don't move tab bar to "correct" place by default please!
Extra wishes as user- fit to width, zoom, encoding in per-site prefs
- better sessions management
- saving files with original filename, not 8.3 DOS format
- based on Notes basic PIM
- Unified meta-data interface from non-tropo's wish #2
- Tabs grouping
- improved Bookmarks (option to store textual content of a page inside bookmark, and this should be searchable)
- contact managment with views instead of folders (so I can have contacts in multiple groups without having to copy them)
Next in lineI would like to see 5 wishes from these guys:
Friday, 29. December 2006, 21:00:29
alltheweb, ask, block, Opera
Two beta versions of search engines (
Ask and
AllTheWeb Livesearch) block Opera for no reason. Both services work pretty well (only with small quirks) when mask as Firefox for example.
That's
what I got on AllTheWeb's page:
For an optimal Livesearch experience,
we only support the following browsers with javascript at this time:
Windows 98/2000/XP - IE 6.0, Firefox 1.5
Mac OSX 10.3 - Firefox 1.5
Mac OSX 10.4 - Firefox 1.5
We plan to support Safari soon. Please let us know if there is interest.
No mention about support of Opera at all, even in future.
The new experemental Ask supports only this:
Minimum browsers versions:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
Firefox 1.5
Safari 2.0
Netscape 7.0
Camino 1.0
When I try to search it redirects me to old Ask interface.
All these are truly Web 2.0!
Friday, 29. December 2006, 20:01:47
firefox, browser sniffing
That site is the prove that not only Opera suffers from browser sniffing.
If you try to click on Calculate button using Firefox you will get this message:
Please ise Netscape4.7 and below
to see your result
or, please use IE.
Thank you
Digg?
Thursday, 28. December 2006, 15:50:42
stats, statistics, Opera
Peter Gasston from
CSS3.info surprised by quickly growing IE7 stats and still very low Opera stats:
One thing that struck me looking through all my stats was the tiny number of people using Opera - in many cases, none at all. Opera is a very good browser - fast, lightweight and standards-compliant; so why aren’t more people using it? I know in my case I rely on the Addons for Firefox; and I know from experience that most Mac users prefer Safari. But what’s stopping everyone else from using it?
Is it because it was paid-for or ad-supported for so long that people have got used to alternatives? Is it because it isn’t marketed well? I’d be interested to hear readers views on their reasons if they don’t use Opera.
Tuesday, 26. December 2006, 19:44:03
firefox, specification, firechicken, specs
...
Mozilla decided to tweak the specs to solve the problem their bugs created.
Tuesday, 26. December 2006, 16:43:35
Opera, access keys, firefox
Firefox would be well-advised to follow Opera Software's lead on this issue, as Opera is, without a shadow of doubt, way ahead of their competitors where access keys are concerned. In Opera, pressing shift+Esc lists all access keys used on the page, and can be activated from that point using the single key alone. Opera also allows the keystroke combination to be configured by the user, making it possible to provide a single modifier key to invoke access keys, rather than the default shift+Esc.
From
Firefox 2.0 and Access Keys by Gez Lemon.
Tuesday, 5. December 2006, 20:08:43
tabs, browsers, invention
Thursday, 9. November 2006, 04:50:54
Opera, ppk, javascript, book
...
That's an example how some books treats Opera; in particular case
ppk on JavaScript:
Opera
Opera is an independent browser with a rather small market share (around 0.5%). It managed to survive—and even thrive—through the Browser Wars, without a large and prosperous corporation behind it. This achievement is not to be despised.
When it comes to JavaScript, Opera has always been slightly behind the other browsers. During the Browser Wars, it didn’t implement DHTML (i.e., the Microsoft and Netscape proprietary DOMs), which in hindsight was an excellent decision.
Although it has largely caught up with the other browsers, it remains the most difficult browser to develop scripts for. It has share of bugs, and its market share is so tiny that the temptation to just forget about it when you encounter a bug is difficult to resist.
Day-to-day development
When I create a script, I constantly test every line I write in Explorer Windows and Mozilla. Explorer contains quite a few peculiarities that should be addressed immediately, while Mozilla is an excellent representative of W3C DOM-compliant browsers.
When I finish a script module, I start Safari and Opera (and occasionally Explorer Mac, iCab, and Konqueror) to check for problems. If I find any, I try to solve them, but the amount of time and trouble I take depends on the browser in question.
Essentially I’m willing to take a lot of time for Safari, but not for any of the other browsers. Opera bugs are either easy or impossible to solve, Explorer Mac is too old, and iCab and Konqueror have too little market share. Agree or disagree with my exact browser lineup, but I advise you to make decisions or risk total insanity.
Do not under any circumstance write a script for one browser first and add support for the other browser “later on”. This is the fastest way to hell. It’s far better to solve nasty incompatibilities at the start of your project than at the end.
Except that this is amazing JavaScript book.
* Highlighting is mine.
Friday, 3. November 2006, 05:01:47
russian, Opera, site
Wow! That's really cool!
http://ru.opera.comAlso
it seems that they preparing official russian help for Opera browser.
Friday, 27. October 2006, 19:27:27
safari, CSS, table, tbody
...
It's just stupid!
Safari propogates CSS
border property from
table to
tbody.
And you can't change border for
tbody than...
Stupidity rating: 
Thursday, 26. October 2006, 19:43:10
usability, accessibility, mobile, web
...
Roger Johansson posted nice summary about
best practices for the mobile web development.
- Link target ID: Clearly identify the target of each link.
- Pop ups: Do not cause pop-ups or other windows to appear and do not change the current window without informing the user.
- Scrolling: Limit scrolling to one direction, unless secondary scrolling cannot be avoided.
- Use of color: Ensure that information conveyed with color is also available without color.
- No frames: Do not use frames.
- Tables layout: Do not use tables for layout.
- Non-text alternatives: Provide a text equivalent for every non-text element.
- Objects or script: Do not rely on embedded objects or script.
- Valid markup: Create documents that validate to published formal grammars.
- Control labelling: Label all form controls appropriately and explicitly associate labels with form controls.
I can testify that new windows are even more annoying in a handheld browser than in a desktop browser. I use Opera in my Nokia 6680 and it does display a meny of the “windows” that have been spawned, but it’s very difficult to notice that a new window has been opened to begin with. Just don’t do it, unless you really have to.
Monday, 2. October 2006, 19:23:58
hype, buzz, accessibility, web 2.0
go2web20.net - site with gallery of "Web 2.0" sites.
In case if you don't have Flash plugin or you have JavaScript off in your browser you will get this Web 2.0 content:
Even if you have all needed components to view this page, you will get monstrous Flash content anyway.
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