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Opera Fingertouch

By Espen André Øverdahl. Thursday, 5. March 2009, 14:06:53

innovation, technology, mini, browser ...

Today we introduce Opera Fingertouch, a technology designed to make interacting with the Web easier and simpler on touch-based devices. Opera Fingertouch provides visual feedback when you hit a Web link, and assists you when you come across multiple links or other selectable elements in close proximity to one another.

To see Opera Fingertouch in action today, download the new beta version of Opera Mobile for Symbian UiQ, check out the video demo below, or read the labs article.

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The Great Feature Train Robbery

By Espen André Øverdahl. Tuesday, 24. February 2009, 20:42:34

technology, browser, discussion

An article by Dustin Wilson looks at how features implemented in Opera has been implemented in other browsers over the years — claiming to be first:

It’s interesting for me to see over the period of the past few years where browsers which have more users are ripping off features that Opera invented, sometimes over a decade ago. It’s not that they shouldn’t. They should because it makes their browsers more useful. My browser of choice is Opera. I don’t roll any bones about it. I don’t have a superiority complex about my browser of choice; it’s just better than everything else.

What's your take on it? Do you follow or care who's first, or is it more a matter of proper implementation?

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Meet Carakan and Vega

By Espen André Øverdahl. Thursday, 5. February 2009, 13:16:04

innovation, vega, technology, opera ...

In this post, we'd like to highlight Opera's upcoming ECMAScript/JavaScript engine, called Carakan, as well as our Vega vector graphics library, both of which were announced at the Web Directions North conference in Denver, Colorado.