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Opera Browser Standards support chart

By Zi Bin Cheahzibin. Tuesday, March 16, 2010 7:00:00 AM

Opera Mobile 10, testing, Opera 10.50, Opera Mini 5, Standards

Update: see the latest browser support chart listing web standards support for Opera desktop, Opera Mobile and Opera Mini listed here.

Knowing the capabilities of each platform makes a huge difference in creating a great user experience across all platforms and devices. Many of you might be wondering about the capabilities supported on Opera Desktop, Mobile and Mini and how they differ from one another in that regard. We thought it would be nice to provide you with a comparative list of standards support across our three browsers.

Opera 10.5x for Desktop runs on the Presto 2.5 rendering engine, while Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 are running on Presto 2.4.

For an engine-specific (and more exhaustive) overview of our standards support, please check out Web specifications supported in Opera Presto 2.5 and Opera Presto 2.4.

	Desktop 10.5x	Mobile 10	Mini 5
CSS3 general
Web Fonts
Media Queries
text-shadow (incl. multiple text-shadow)			*
selectors
CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders
border-radius
background-clip
background-origin
multiple background images
background-attachment
box-shadow
border-image
CSS3 Transitions
transition-property
transition-duration
transition-delay
transition-timing-function
ease
linear
ease-in
ease-out
ease-in-out
CSS3 2D Transforms
translate
translateX
translateY
scale
skew
rotate
transform-origin
CSS3 Color
rgba()
hsla()
HTML5
Video	†
Audio	†
Web Forms
Storage
Web Storage - Local Storage
Web Storage - Session Storage
Web SQL Storage
Graphics
Canvas			‡
SVG			‡
Miscellaneous
Selectors API			¶
Viewport META tag	N/A

* Blur radius is not supported.

† Opera on Windows and Mac support the Ogg container format and the Theora and Vorbis codecs, as well as the WAVE container format and PCM codec. Opera on Linux and FreeBSD supports the container formats and codecs that are installed in the system's GStreamer.

‡ Opera Mini uses the same engine as other Opera products, but it is special as it consists of an Opera Mini thin client on the phone and an Opera Server on the back-end. Because of this particular architecture, Opera Mini does not support asynchronous operations or user interaction such as mouseover events in SVG and Canvas.

¶ Due to Opera Mini's nature as a thin client, Selectors API function calls that require user interaction, such as mouseover events, will not work. The selector queried should also be loaded before the JavaScript that does the querying, which can be done by placing the script just before the body close tag.

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Tamil # Tuesday, March 16, 2010 9:17:27 AM

Artur „Jurgi” JurgawkaJurgi # Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:00:18 AM

Good to know. It may be better to have comparison also with other mobile browsers.

dahulevogyre # Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:02:13 AM

Nice !

So border-radius and box-shadow are supported by Presto 2.3 but not by 2.4 ?
http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/presto23/#css

And why does http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/presto24/ mention css transforms, audio, video and storage ?

Thanks for clarifying !

Zi Bin Cheahzibin # Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:09:47 AM

dahulevogyre,

In the specifications, it says that Presto 2.5 supports Web Storage and Web SQL storage.

Also, our graphics library "Vega" is in charged of rendering many of the CSS magic in transform and transitions. Part of it is still turned off on the mobile end, hence we see discrepancies such as transform not working in Mobile.

As for video(and possibly audio), we have had it in certain Opera builds since late 2008.http://labs.opera.com/news/2008/07/18/ It was actually Opera that first proposed

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks # Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:54:05 AM

Can't wait for 2.5 for the mobile browsers.

Mağruf ÇolakoğluZAHEK # Tuesday, March 16, 2010 2:39:50 PM

DavidSchalandra # Tuesday, March 16, 2010 2:55:07 PM

I hope you'll keep this list up to date in future releases.

Charles SchlossChas4 # Tuesday, March 16, 2010 3:40:08 PM

http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Happy.gif -

Cutting Spoonhellspork # Wednesday, March 17, 2010 9:49:06 PM

Thank you, very enlightening.

Daniel Silvadmsilva # Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:46:51 AM

When will opera mobile be ready for video HTML5? There is any prediction?

Zi Bin Cheahzibin # Thursday, March 18, 2010 12:27:54 PM

Daniel,

When Opera Mobile moves to Presto 2.5 rendering.

The earlier the better.

amberfade2black18420 # Tuesday, March 23, 2010 4:02:19 AM

im new to this opera program and i have it for my Wii system. i was just wondering how can i watch movies and listen to music on the internet using this program (Opera) on my Wii? thanks

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks # Tuesday, March 23, 2010 4:08:34 AM

Originally posted by amber:

im new to this opera program and i have it for my Wii system. i was just wondering how can i watch movies and listen to music on the internet using this program (Opera) on my Wii?

Welcome to the Opera Community

Most sites have not made themselves for the Wii. So it may not be possible. Also, Nintendo has not asked Opera to upgrade the Internet Channel yet, so that is fairly old. So, your wish may not be able to be done on your Wii, but it might on your computer

Abhinavdecodedthought # Tuesday, March 23, 2010 1:22:54 PM

DavidSchalandra # Wednesday, March 24, 2010 12:29:01 AM

Originally posted by DanielHendrycks:

Most sites have not made themselves for the Wii. So it may not be possible. Also, Nintendo has not asked Opera to upgrade the Internet Channel yet, so that is fairly old. So, your wish may not be able to be done on your Wii, but it might on your computer

There are still plenty of pages (including YouTube) that work very well using the Wii Internet Channel. Nevertheless I wonder if we will ever see Presto 2.5 on Wii?

Cutting Spoonhellspork # Wednesday, March 24, 2010 2:40:05 AM

If nothing else, Unite Sevice Discovery would be pretty great.

Charles SchlossChas4 # Wednesday, March 24, 2010 4:45:59 AM

Stream your music from your computer to your Wii in another room, interesting

Cutting Spoonhellspork # Wednesday, March 24, 2010 4:53:31 AM

I think it already works...but what if it was nearly automatic? Like an all-platform competitor against Xbox media sharing?

Unregistered user # Tuesday, April 20, 2010 5:14:28 AM

Dude writes: why doesn't mobile 10 & mini 5 support box-shadow and border-radius. those 2 are good and helpful properties

Cutting Spoonhellspork # Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:43:50 AM

The spec for OBML will eventually be updated.

Unregistered user # Monday, April 26, 2010 8:58:08 AM

Dude writes: Seriously hope that the next versions of mobile & mini will support 'box-shadow' and 'border-radius' properties. those 2 r very good properties, and all the latest good browsers support it. please include these in the new versions.

Unregistered user # Tuesday, April 27, 2010 9:01:33 AM

Gaurav Mishra writes: Got my Radius THE border-radius

Unregistered user # Tuesday, April 27, 2010 9:30:00 AM

soalive.dk writes: Excellent - been waiting for this :-)

Unregistered user # Wednesday, May 26, 2010 9:42:10 AM

rpb writes: Any idea when localstorage will be supported on Opera Mobile? That will really help to support offline apps.

Cutting Spoonhellspork # Friday, May 28, 2010 5:01:57 PM

There may be an update with the upcoming conference in early June. I've been seeing a few snips about Opera Tablet, and the special Maemo hobby build had an initial port of Presto 2.5 and Carakan. So good news may be close.

Unregistered user # Wednesday, June 2, 2010 1:25:35 PM

Anonym writes: Opera Mini is based on Presto 2.4 and the specs mention the support of CSS 2D Transforms and Transitions (http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/presto24/css/transforms/) but your supports table does not. Does it means its definitively not included or deactivated or is it kind of working while you don't want to claim support for it?

Cutting Spoonhellspork # Wednesday, June 2, 2010 4:12:16 PM

The official specs for Presto 2.4 indicate features that were supported by Opera 10.x Desktop version. These new charts are for Desktop 10.5x, Mini 5, etc.

Dynamic content mostly does not work in Mini. Period. Site dialog boxes are replicated, and perhaps a similar approach may be used for hover menus eventually.

Mini will never have as many features as Mobile, Devices, Desktop etc. Luckily most dynamic content fares poorly on most mobile devices, so any good website has a failover procedure to support them.

Unregistered user # Thursday, June 17, 2010 3:14:09 PM

Greg writes: Ditto on the local storage question; the Web SQL is essential for a lot of our work; since the iPhone already has an SQLite engine, it's not clear to me why Opera Mini couldn't build on that. Nowadays, I don't think you get get away with a basic rendering engine; a lot of us generate dynamic content, even for mobile platforms.

Cutting Spoonhellspork # Friday, June 18, 2010 1:22:13 AM

Dynamic and USEFUL? Or just another fringe site with a visual gimmick that breaks when the standard is updated? Opera's hybrid proxy for Mini is very flexible and extensible. No telling what the future holds.

It doesn't hurt that cheap android phones are raising customer expectations. Soon even a very bad phone will be much faster, and we'll see new options and features in Mini. Either that or Mobile will replace Mini as phone hardware improves.

Cutting Spoonhellspork # Friday, June 18, 2010 1:24:51 AM

Followup: Given that Mini is going native on more platforms, there is an exciting possibility: What if the proxy could PRE-COMPILE scripts as native binary for the phone's CPU? Not just off-device compression, off-device formatting, but off-device JIT to deliver speed without the compile/memory hit?

Unregistered user # Friday, July 9, 2010 3:35:15 PM

vann writes: i can no longer use my mobile browser(opera mini) in my nokia..i dont know what to do:(

Cutting Spoonhellspork # Friday, July 9, 2010 5:28:42 PM

There is a new 5.1 version, especially intended for Nokia phones, small-screen phones, low-memory phones.

Unregistered user # Thursday, July 15, 2010 5:05:32 PM

dudi writes: do opera 5.1 mini support Hebrew? a right to left language?

Unregistered user # Saturday, July 17, 2010 2:24:10 AM

Pablo writes: You guys are awesome, great job, the best symbian browser and FREE!

Unregistered user # Saturday, July 17, 2010 2:26:43 AM

Pablo writes: I forgot to say> also have the best touch QWERTY ever made!

Unregistered user # Monday, July 19, 2010 5:30:13 AM

Murat writes: otlıchno

Unregistered user # Tuesday, July 20, 2010 8:28:13 AM

javaboy writes: can anybody tell me, why is it opera on my WM6 phone can't type using the original qwerty keyboards instead i have to type any web address like browsing in a nokia phone?? like, if i have to type "B" i have to press on the number "2" pad twice, to type "F" gotta press number "3" three times.

Unregistered user # Friday, July 30, 2010 9:14:29 AM

User_Agent writes: Hi all, what about device detection over HTTP. How it is possible for me to see which device is behind the Opera Mini und Opera Mobile? On the User Agent I can only see that by Opera Mini and Opera Mobile: Opera/9.80 (BlackBerry; Opera Mini/5.0.19692/19.886; U; en) Presto/2.5.25,gzip(gfe) (via translate.google.com) Opera/9.80 (BlackBerry; Opera Mini/5.0.19692/19.886; U; de) Presto/2.5.25 Opera/9.80 (BlackBerry; Opera Mini/5.0.19692/19.872; U; en) Presto/2.5.25,gzip(gfe) (via translate.google.com) Opera/9.80 (BlackBerry; Opera Mini/5.0.19692/19.836; U; de) Presto/2.5.25 Opera/9.80 (BlackBerry; Opera Mini/5.0.19692/19.826; U; es) Presto/2.5.25,gzip(gfe) (via translate.google.com) Without opera I can see the User Agent like that: BlackBerry9530/5.0.0.230 Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/105 BlackBerry9520/5.0.0.436 Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/310 Is there a way to define the Device over the Opera User Agent string? Thx, MoRLoG

Unregistered user # Friday, July 30, 2010 9:24:51 PM

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Unregistered user # Wednesday, August 4, 2010 9:40:15 AM

Anonymous writes: Can this be installed on a Windows PC so that I can tune my website for mobile viewing?

Unregistered user # Wednesday, August 4, 2010 10:32:44 AM

fackir writes: In my Opera Mobile phone freezes after 10-15 minutes. Over the phone RAM memory. I'm using 5530. Is there a way to fix this problem! Jump out of my applications and all goes into primary state. Having not played the opera and have 48-49 RAM 10-15 minutes 2-3 MB and remain relevant to reboot or go to initial state. And other people is the same problem with Opera? What caused this and is there a way to fix? dian@mail.bg

Unregistered user # Wednesday, August 4, 2010 10:33:43 AM

dian@mail.bg writes: In my Opera Mobile phone freezes after 10-15 minutes. Over the phone RAM memory. I'm using 5530. Is there a way to fix this problem! Jump out of my applications and all goes into primary state. Having not played the opera and have 48-49 RAM 10-15 minutes 2-3 MB and remain relevant to reboot or go to initial state. And other people is the same problem with Opera? What caused this and is there a way to fix?

Unregistered user # Wednesday, August 4, 2010 10:34:21 AM

Cutting Spoonhellspork # Wednesday, August 4, 2010 4:51:31 PM

Try going into opera:config and checking your settings.

To the other anonymous commenter, yes "Opera Mobile" can be installed on a computer. As detailed here: http://labs.opera.com/news/2010/04/22/

Unregistered user # Sunday, August 8, 2010 3:59:06 PM

Anonymous writes: I have an older iPAQ 3950 with Windows CE. I wonder if any of the Opera browsers will work?

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks # Monday, August 9, 2010 4:14:29 AM

Originally posted by anonymous:

I have an older iPAQ 3950 with Windows CE. I wonder if any of the Opera browsers will work?

Why not head over to http://Opera.com and see if it works?

Unregistered user # Monday, August 9, 2010 7:27:44 PM

David writes: That solution was too easy for my bitty brain. Thanks. I'll report back.

Cutting Spoonhellspork # Tuesday, August 10, 2010 12:58:15 AM

I think he meant http://m.opera.com/

Found this link in a few seconds:
http://www.brothersoft.com/mobile/phone/hp/hp_ipaq_h3950/

In my opinion, your 3950 may run javaphone apps, and should be able to run Mini 5.1; running Mobile is unlikely. If you are very lucky, you may be able to use "native" Mini which runs faster and uses less memory.

Cutting Spoonhellspork # Wednesday, August 11, 2010 10:30:00 PM

^^Kill it

Unregistered user # Saturday, August 14, 2010 2:47:48 AM

Gk writes: Thd best versin opera mini

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