My Opera
If it grills like a duck...
Monday, October 17, 2011 3:21:12 PM
I like food. I like cooking. I found a recipe and wondered about it...
Sticky post
Me, my blog, I, id
Thursday, June 23, 2005 8:31:03 PM
I work for Opera, but the opinions here are my own, not Opera's. Often, we actually agree. This blog is written following Opera's employee blogging policy.
My resumé is available, and you can search for 'chaals' on the Web, follow my occasional twitter feed, or even read this blog...
My resumé is available, and you can search for 'chaals' on the Web, follow my occasional twitter feed, or even read this blog...
Open source and keeping talent
Thursday, December 15, 2011 7:02:31 PM
I read an interesting post this afternoon about why to Open Source (almost) Everything (thanks Tobie for the link). Far more interesting than the Open source bit was what it said about talented developers. Or more precisely, what it hinted at...
KeyTitle image descriptions
Monday, May 9, 2011 3:03:28 PM
Descriptions of images for the KeyTitle extension "documentation" page.
KeyTitle extension
Monday, May 9, 2011 9:48:06 AM
Steve Faulkner wondered how long it would take to make title tooltips show on keyboard navigation. As an extension, it took me about 20 minutes of research and about half that in programming, plus some time to make a pretty icon.
Published! The extensions is available for Opera 11+
The price of art...
Sunday, April 10, 2011 11:14:45 AM
Artists may be political prisoners. Graffiti can be legitimate art (although that's rare in my experience). But sometimes it seems easy to be confused...
IDN Mail fix...
Friday, April 8, 2011 8:00:05 AM
An Opera extension that provides a quick'n'dirty hack to allow internationalised email addresses to be submitted
Swaplang (en castellano)
Thursday, March 31, 2011 9:05:00 AM
La documentación en castellano para la Opera extension Swaplang que escribí. El código fuente está disponible a https://bitbucket.org/chaals/swaplang).
Otros idiomas disponibles:
Tell Me More
Thursday, March 24, 2011 7:07:00 AM
Another documentation page for an Extension. This one finds long descriptions of images and lets you see they are there and open them.
Swaplang - descripciones de las imagenes
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 2:37:52 PM
Ésta pagina contiene descripciones de las imagenes en la documentación de mi Opera extensión 'swaplang'.
Swaplang: descriptions des images
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 2:23:31 PM
Cette page contient descriptions des images utilisées dans ma page de documentation pour mon extension Swaplang.
Swaplang image descriptions
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 2:19:08 PM
This is a page for image descriptions from my swaplang documentation.
Swaplang
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:48:53 AM
A documentation page for the Swaplang Opera extension I wrote. Note that source code is available at https://bitbucket.org/chaals/swaplang)
Other languages available:
Excesskey change log
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 9:46:10 AM
This is a change log for my excesskey extension. It's here to avoid cluttering the main documentation, and might not be a very interesting blog entry 
Don't forget your passport
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 3:44:16 PM
Recently in Kiev I was at a community meetup. I had been tired when I arrived, but when we left I was actually wide awake, buzzing with energy and thinking about questions. Since I had interviews the next morning, I decided a quick walk would let me see some of the sights of Kiev (even in the dark there are things to see) and relax. And near the main square, a policeman stopped me and asked for my documents. Which for the first time in a year or so I was not carrying - I had left them in the hotel.
And so began the only really negative experience I had in the Ukraine (I thoroughly enjoyed the week as a whole)...
And so began the only really negative experience I had in the Ukraine (I thoroughly enjoyed the week as a whole)...
Image description for Excesskey
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 2:50:42 AM
This is long descriptions of images in my excesskey documentation page. (Right now there is only one image). If you don't know what the description is for, you'll probably find that page more interesting (and it has pictures). In any case the most important information is there, not here
Excesskey - my first Opera extension!
Monday, November 1, 2010 2:29:57 AM
Update 2011-01-26: Source code published: https://bitbucket.org/chaals/excesskey, this page updated.
Update 2010-12-01: version 1.21 now available. As is a change log
I have been messing around with the extension stuff for a while. The project is to improve the usability of accesskeys, and version 1.1 actually works (although there are a lot of improvements I want to make).
This page will serve as the user documentation for the foreseeable future (which means I will add 'update this' to the list of things I need to do as I make changes).
(I realise this isn't actual magic yet - people like Gez Lemon have made extensions to improve accesskey behaviour in browsers before. Opera has the best accesskey implementation today but we can improve. This is an attempt to prototype what I think a good accesskey implementation would do).
Update 2010-12-01: version 1.21 now available. As is a change log
I have been messing around with the extension stuff for a while. The project is to improve the usability of accesskeys, and version 1.1 actually works (although there are a lot of improvements I want to make).
This page will serve as the user documentation for the foreseeable future (which means I will add 'update this' to the list of things I need to do as I make changes).
(I realise this isn't actual magic yet - people like Gez Lemon have made extensions to improve accesskey behaviour in browsers before. Opera has the best accesskey implementation today but we can improve. This is an attempt to prototype what I think a good accesskey implementation would do).
Cerrado por Huelga
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 5:31:33 AM
It either means closed for, or closed by, a strike. A bad mix with jetlag perhaps.
Back in the ex-USSR
Friday, September 10, 2010 11:43:41 AM
Actually, in Tashkent at BarCamp.uz, which has been an independent republic for 19 years and a few days - They celebrated independence on 1 September
Maraña: Spring snow and sunshine
Monday, May 17, 2010 2:36:01 PM
A weekend in the mountains. Much needed as a break from the laptop and a connection with the kind of reality that gets under your fingernails and into your memories.
Charles McCathieNevile
Tags
Widgets and things
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A fly!
It's silly, it's simple, it's gross, and it's cool
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Widget Bits
Dumb demos of simple things widgets can do.
Comment Blog
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Twitter, blogs, comments...
Twitter is quick, but not always great. I always wanted a blog made up of comments - and this link category is a step in making one :)
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WYSIWYG Editors and HTML
Response to well-written blog explaining why "WYSIWYG Editors hate HTML5". I agree there are problems, I think there are solutions available.
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WYSIWYG Editors and HTML, pt 2
Further exploration of how things really are and what can usefully be done.
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ARIA role="application"
JAWS got it wrong. Just handing over the keyboard is stupid - even if the role itself is not.
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Entrevista con Jan Standal
Respuestas a los comentarios sobre una entrevista de Jan Standal (de Opera).
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Opera Brasil na Noruega
Fotos que quero (e não)
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(Muchos comentarios, un articulo)
Una conversación sobre la Web Móvil
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Improving accessibility - what do we need?
It's not about one magic solution - this is a complex problem and lots of things need to be done.
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Unite geolocation app
Cool ways to manage your own location data
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Código abierto y Opera
Porque ser abierto no es la diferencía entre exito y la muerte.
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