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Opera is the best Browser you have never heard of

By Espen André Øverdahl. Friday, 30. October 2009, 13:39:01

At least according to Associated Content who writes:

Introducing Opera, a super fast lightweight web browser. Opera is an incredible web browser. It has become my favorite for surfing the web. I cannot believe how few people actually know it exists. Especially when so many people surf the web on it every day.

Good to hear that Opera's getting more and more acknowledged.

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About the new skin

By Jon Hicks. Wednesday, 3. June 2009, 06:47:23

download, launch, frontpage, desktop ...

Initially, a new skin wasn't planned for Opera 10. We were just going to do a 'clean-up' of some elements and focus on UI for new features. However, over time, the new UI elements started jarring with the 9.5 skin, and steadily everything started getting updated. In particular, there were a lot of icons that were just plain fuzzy - they weren't following pixel lines well and the anti-aliasing made them blurry. Almost all the icons have been replaced, and by the time the final release is out they'll all be revised.

Small-screen browsers get bigger role

By Espen André Øverdahl. Monday, 6. April 2009, 07:15:44

msnbc, article, opera mini, mobile web

Daniel Goldman, who many of you already know as the editor of Opera Watch, and a former “technical evangelist” for Opera, talks about browsing speed on mobile devices in an article by msnbc. While a phone network's speed is a key factor, so is the Web browser that's being used to fetch and render pages:

"Maybe “mobile Web browsing” should be called “mobile Web squinting” considering what it takes to view the Internet using a cell phone. Yet, largely because of Apple’s iPhone and other smartphones such as the BlackBerry and Palm, more users are checking the Internet this way, and the importance of those browsers are growing.

At CTIA, the wireless industry’s trade show this week, expect chatter about the mobile browser “wars,” with Opera Mini, long popular in Europe, likely soon to have more of a presence in the United States, and a test mobile version of another challenger, Firefox, underway."

Read the article...

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Web browsers battle at festival

By Espen André Øverdahl. Tuesday, 17. March 2009, 12:27:06

festival, bbc, SXSW, article ...

SXSW Interactive is this week and Opera's making a strong presence this year too (check out the photo album). An article by BBC which cover one of the heated panel disussions at this years event cites our very own Håkon Wium Lie:

"Microsoft is ignoring web standards and should use its position to promote competition among browsers, the chief technology officer at Opera has said."

Read the article...

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Nintendo DSi browser article

By Espen André Øverdahl. Sunday, 8. March 2009, 18:24:21

article, opera, nintendo

Here's an article featuring the official Nintendo crew who talk about the new Nintendo entertainment device, the browser and the work relationship they've gained with Opera over the years building the browser for both Nintendo Wii and DS:

"Many of Opera’s staff had very distinct personalities, so depending on who was in charge of something, the work would proceed quite differently. For that reason, we drew up strategies within the team for each individual, assigning work to people based on their character (laughs). It’s a company that provides fresh discoveries every time we communicate with them."

The article is in two sections, whereas part 2 is dedicated (mostly) to Opera and the browser:

Enjoy!