An interesting new technology appeared out of Opera Labs a few minutes ago: a build with the low-latency HTTP pipelining replacement SPDY. In short, it means faster and prioritized connections between the browser and supporting server.

Head over to the Opera Labs blog to read all about the protocol and grab the downloads while they’re still fresh.

The feedback we are interested in for this release is whether you have any performance or consistent connection issues. Please use the comment section in the Opera Labs blog post.

SPDY has already been deployed on many Google services and on Twitter. The blog post includes some information about how to make your web site SPDY ready so you can take advantage of the new performance potential.

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Welcome back on the desktop blog in the New Year! Our batteries are fully loaded, we hope yours too , so lets start this year with something interesting, that will catch your eyes! Let us share with you an experimental Camera build, which we made available at Opera Labs. From now on you can set and manage privacy settings for the camera directly from the UI, which wasn't possible in earlier build we showed you. When you are visiting the page, that wants to use your camera, you'll be asked to grant permission to camera stream for that site via special notification callout.
This new privacy settings interface contains information about all used devices, including geolocation settings.

With the getusermedia support you don't depend on the 3rd party plugins or special extensions. Everything what you need is just Opera Browser ... oh and web camera of course!

So if you have some webcam plug it in, grab the build from Opera Labs and check how it works!

Developer notes: If you've tried to use camera with our previous labs camera build, notice that we are up to date with latest specification. Remember to use video as an object instead of a string when accessing video stream through getusermedia.

If you haven't seen it already, head over to Opera Labs and check out our latest work on Ragnarök (our new HTML5 parser).

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As you have probably already heard, yesterday Opera released a Labs build with WebM support. You can find out more details in our Labs announcement, Opera dev article or Philip Jägenstedt's blog post (Philip leads our HTML5 video effort).

This post is provided to give you all a place to share your thoughts on this historic announcement. However as always, stay on topic. Comments should be about video support (specifically WebM video support). Remember that Labs releases are not snapshots, they serve to demonstrate new and ground breaking features we are working on. That said, they still are not meant for regular usage, since they do share the same potential for serious bugs as the snapshots do.

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