opera on the olpc!
Monday, 18. December 2006, 20:35:18
"Ohhh, it's SMALL!"
"It's - OHH - so GREEN!"
"HOW CUTE!"
Since Håkon came over to our desktop offices with the OLPC we just received, it got really busy: everybody wants to see it, to touch it, to play with it. Invariably, it catches everybody's fantasy and curiosity. And everybody's enthusiasm: it's really great fun!
Opera runs beautifully on it. The machine is not really the fastest, but Opera' performance is excellent - the browsing experience is beautifully smooth: all sites load fine and quickly, and even complex DHTML pages with heavy animations do not suffer - and you will not miss anything you can enjoy in the desktop version, no need to settle for less. In fact, we currently simply are running the static intel-linux desktop build on it: Opera scales very well on slower machines. We are planning to also play with non-Qt desktop versions on the machine, and test and compare performance results - after all, we want to make sure users will have the choice of good browsers. Keep in mind that the additional RAM that now has been added mainly to allow the bundled browser to run, will be removed again.
Multiple tabs, mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts, zoom-in on any page and never be afraid to get any horizontal scrollbars, low memory footprint… it all works perfectly - except for when it comes to a very odd and nasty JavaScript freezer that pulls the whole machine down with it…
Well, I guess debugging that will be our Christmas gift for this year
And it's great fun browsing the web on the machine! Stay tuned!
"It's - OHH - so GREEN!"
"HOW CUTE!"
Since Håkon came over to our desktop offices with the OLPC we just received, it got really busy: everybody wants to see it, to touch it, to play with it. Invariably, it catches everybody's fantasy and curiosity. And everybody's enthusiasm: it's really great fun!
Opera runs beautifully on it. The machine is not really the fastest, but Opera' performance is excellent - the browsing experience is beautifully smooth: all sites load fine and quickly, and even complex DHTML pages with heavy animations do not suffer - and you will not miss anything you can enjoy in the desktop version, no need to settle for less. In fact, we currently simply are running the static intel-linux desktop build on it: Opera scales very well on slower machines. We are planning to also play with non-Qt desktop versions on the machine, and test and compare performance results - after all, we want to make sure users will have the choice of good browsers. Keep in mind that the additional RAM that now has been added mainly to allow the bundled browser to run, will be removed again.
Multiple tabs, mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts, zoom-in on any page and never be afraid to get any horizontal scrollbars, low memory footprint… it all works perfectly - except for when it comes to a very odd and nasty JavaScript freezer that pulls the whole machine down with it…
Well, I guess debugging that will be our Christmas gift for this year
And it's great fun browsing the web on the machine! Stay tuned!
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By vetler, # 18. December 2006, 21:23:51
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By olli, # 18. December 2006, 21:41:13
By dantesoft, # 18. December 2006, 23:47:41
Digg it, Reddit or disscuss on Slashdot
By FataL, # 18. December 2006, 23:52:43
By kochira, # 19. December 2006, 16:18:48
By Lagged2Death, # 19. December 2006, 16:53:23