Posts tagged with "opera"
Monday, May 9, 2011 9:48:06 AM
accessibility, KeyTitle, opera
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+
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Friday, April 8, 2011 8:00:05 AM
extensions, i18n, html5, opera
An Opera extension that provides a quick'n'dirty hack to allow internationalised email addresses to be submitted
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Monday, November 1, 2010 2:29:57 AM
accessibility, standards, excesskey, opera
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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 logI 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).
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 10:34:34 AM
accessibility, neat technology, opera, soap box rant
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The "WIMP" (Windows, Icons, Mouse Pointer) interface paradigm has been dominant on desktops for almost 2 decades now - about the time that the Web has been with us. So it has been the dominant design paradigm for the Web. Which has introduced some complex problems that don't seem to get better.
(This is effectively a write up of the last section of a presentation I gave at CSUN recently. And it is a request for thoughts and comments so I can solidify it and push any good bits to proper standardisation).
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Monday, April 6, 2009 9:41:49 PM
mobile, travel, neat technology, opera
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I've finally returned home after a travel burst that involved a lot of miles, 4 continents (depending, of course, on how you divide them), and a bunch of learning. This is mostly thoughts and reflections on being in Mozambique and the W3C workshop on how Mobile Web can help the developing world (to help itself).
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Sunday, March 29, 2009 9:05:39 AM
barcampcaspian09, opera, travel, presents
BarCamp Caspian is mostly done - although there are still things to see and do, the end is much closer as the beginning. Some thoughts...
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Thursday, January 22, 2009 12:46:32 AM
opera, mobile, neat technology
I was working on a paper about mobile access, and I noted that in the "State of the Mobile Web" report, top devices for mini included "desktop" as
number 3 in Zambia and
number 4 in Swaziland. Then I ran across instructions to use
Opera Mini on Windows and on Linux, but not Mac. So here is the recipe...
The nice thing is it seems to be slightly simpler
As far as I know, this requires a mouse to work (I skimped on testing so far in my rush to write)
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Sunday, June 29, 2008 3:59:20 PM
standards, neat technology, opera, environment
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I got one of the One Laptop Per Child project's XO laptops. I have been playing around with it a bit, but it might suddenly become my work machine...
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:02:50 AM
neat technology, w3c, travel, opera
A couple of weeks ago I spent a few days in Ireland, and what did I do? Staying in Parnell Square, I managed to see very little of the town. I wandered a bit around the trendy bit in the centre I went to a lot of meetings, I sat and worked a lot.
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Friday, March 28, 2008 3:10:26 PM
standards, neat technology, opera, SVG
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When I was a kid, this meant sweets that were usually lemon flavoured. Then I discovered that before I was a kid this could also mean taking a particular drug. But now I am a geek most of the time, so it means dealing with very complicated tests.
This week's tempest in geekland was about the
Acid3 test - we were first to announce we had got to 98/98, and just afterward
first to score 100/100 on the test (with Webkit in each case hot on our heels). Now you can get a
special preview testing build (for Windows or Linux) that gets the right rendering and 100/100 on the test.
But what does that really mean...?
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Monday, November 19, 2007 12:56:40 PM
mathml, video, SVG, opera
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I've been on a travel-meeting-travel-talk-travel jag for what seems like forever (but it was really only three weeks).
While I was away, a whole lot of cool Opera things came out. MathML, Mini 4, A video build with 3D canvas, ...
So in roughly chronological order...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 11:09:20 AM
opera, internet, neat technology
Or should that be damning? I really like the fact that Opera supports BitTorrent. I use it about once in a blue moon, for some big thing like installing neoOffice, but then I appreciate it. It doesn't let me watch each packet fly around, it just oves files. That's fine. I have work to do, but I appreciate being able to move files while I am working.
Recently I had to explain to someone setting up a computer that while it makes sense to get Opera and then get a handful of useful applications as torrents, you probably need to remember to turn them off after a while. And then that it isn't some terrible security risk, or a sign that you are a criminal. It is a way of moving files around the net - something that we do more and more. And if you don't want to hand over all the things you have to someone else in order to share them, it's quite useful.
It is amazing the FUD that is out there, and most of it is total rubbish. Yes, if you run a torrent you are sharing with people. So you should watch how much you share, and make sure you know that your bandwidth is being used.
That's it. I am not a criminal, I am not violating copyright laws or anything else. I am using the internet to get and give files to people - what it was made for in the first place.
Of course, since in many places you pay good money for bad bandwidth, there are still people who want to
disable Opera's BitTorrent support either for themselves or for their users, or to use some other application for torrents. And of course, you ca do that if you want to. I think it is a shame that organisations use such blanket rules, instead of thinking about what their members are trying to achieve and the best ways to do that. But there you go...
Tuesday, September 4, 2007 8:39:29 AM
neat technology, opera, accessibility, browsers
If you read my blog obsessively, checking every 15 minutes to see if I wrote something new and reading it immediately, you should probably relax a bit. On the other hand, thank you (it would be nice to think that someone likes what I write enough to do this) - and as a reward you find out that we just made a
public alpha version of Opera 9.5 - the new "Kestrel".
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 11:18:49 PM
neat technology, security, opera, web
Security is an interesting area. Despite having published actual papers on security at real security conferences, I wouldn't class myself as an expert in the area. But I do think it is important, and very interesting. Occasionally I get in trouble for saying that "security on the Web is pretty primitive" or something like that - maybe I should write a bit more about why I think the Web doesn't have a very powerful security system one day, and why that isn't necesasrily a bug, but a feature request.
Still, it is nice to see when an improvement of some sort occurs anywhere in this area - and another one is on the way...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 1:25:44 PM
neat technology, mobile, opera
The
beta version of Opera mini 4 is out today.
It has some cool features, like the kind of adaptive zoom that the iPhone, and Nokia's browser for high-end phones before it, was supposed to use to revolutionise the web. Except of course that this runs on the $50 pre-paid phone I bought when I realised that I had forgotten my phone, not just on some $500+contract superphone. On the other hand, it is a beta, so it isn't everything that mini4 will be.
I normally run the very latest builds of Opera on my desktop - the internal builds that we get in the development process - so I am not scared of our beta software. I even have my mail in it. But I am not quite so pushy about the phone browser. Mini Just Works™ for the stuff I do (looking up songs and lyrics, buying travel tickets, a bit of reading news, and looking up pointless things at parties).
The new version is nice. I have played around a bit with the "
desktop mini simulator" - there is a simulator that runs the same program on a desktop, where it draws an imaginary phone around it so you can get an idea of how it works.
I am not so fond of the zoom thing for everyday use. But then, I hate it on the other browsers I have tried it on, too. When I browse on a mobile, I want something that really really works for mobile, and I don't find it hard to understand the way that things are adapted to best suit mobile. Some usability testing suggested that people prefer having a full-screen mode that made the layout like desktop, so there are plenty of people out there who love it.
Certainly, it can be useful. It is nice to see a mouse pointer on so many cheap phones. It should handle some really badly written systems that are monstrously hard to adapt, too. And it is properly written to dynamically fit as columns wobble around and change size.
Am I just an old fuddy-duddy, wanting things to be the way they were, or is it really easier for someone who uses mobile a lot (It is about 3 years since I first bought a plane ticket on my phone)? I don't know. Even in "old-fashioned" mode (which of course it still does) the new beta feels even faster. Maybe it is just that I am not a very visual person.
One warning (Hey, it is a beta!): in the beta, they have not yet enabled the always-on security that made Opera mini a really cool application for me - one that I use for buying real stuff. So I either have to leave off putting my credit card about until the next update is out, or stay with the current release version. And that is the real dilemma....
... because actually I want to upgrade. Maybe I will just do it on the phone that has
Opera mobile with SSL, Password management, Ajax and so on, and leave the cheap phone I bought at a train station with the secured release version for now...
Thursday, December 7, 2006 10:30:44 AM
travel, w3c, opera, life
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Err, that's meant to be Bangalore, the first place I have ever been in India.
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