Posts tagged with "opera"
Monday, 23. November 2009, 08:00:00
opera, web 3.0, unite
Opera 10.10 with Unite was released today, and I'm looking forward to seeing even more weird and wonderful applications. I don't think most people understand the potential of people's computers being able to talk to each others like this, but I'm sure they will realize sooner or later.
Ok, so calling it "Web 3.0" might seem a bit cheesy, but again, Opera Unite does mean that
devices can start talking to each other instead of just being "passive" members of the Web.
Monday, 16. November 2009, 10:11:54
opera, financials
Financial results time again. The
third quarter results for 2009 are in. The overall revenue growth is only 8% for the quarter, but 38% for the first 3 quarters of 2009 compared to 2008. Currency/exchange rates are not in Opera's favour compared to last year, but this will probably normalize over time.
Read more...
Tuesday, 10. November 2009, 13:57:38
opera, firefox, msie, vulnerabilities
...
According to Computerworld, security firm Cenzic has
released a report showing that Firefox and Safari were the least secure browsers in the first half of 2009. That's the impression you get by simply skimming the article anyway. The actual
report from Cenzic only counts the number of security flaws, and concludes that Firefox had 44% of all vulnerabilities, Safari had 35%, IE had 15%, and Opera a mere 6%.
Does that really mean that IE is more secure than Firefox and Safari?
I'm not sure a conclusion like that can be drawn at all. There are other aspects to security vulnerabilities that were not covered, such as the severity, and how long the vendor takes to fix them. Furthermore, security reports sometimes elevate standard crash bugs into security bugs, for example referring to them as "Denial of Service Vulnerabilities".
It's great to see that Opera has a low number of vulnerabilities, and I am confident that we would look good if severity and "time to fix" were taken into account as well. But until the report actually includes those relevant details, it isn't really that useful.
Statistics are great, though. You can make them show just about anything.
Tuesday, 3. November 2009, 13:29:26
market share, statcounter, opera, net applications
...
Google just announced that Chrome has
more than 30 million users. The latest number for Opera from a few months ago was more than 40 million users. However, both
StatCounter and
Net Applications list Chrome with a higher market share than Opera in October (1.88 for Opera/4.17 for Chrome, and 2.17 for Opera/3.58 for Chrome, respectively).
That's how
reliable browser statistics are...
Tuesday, 3. November 2009, 12:21:37
presto 2.4, opera, presto 2.3, presto
...
If you want to try our newest engine, Presto 2.4, you can download the
Opera Mobile 10 beta for S60. This beta is the first public version with Presto 2.4. There are some limitations, though, as listed in the
Opera Mobile 10 beta developer's introduction on Dev.Opera.
I don't have any updates on
Carakan or
Vega, but our core team is continuing work on Presto 2.4, and of course on versions beyond 2.4. There are a lot of goodies on the way for versions after 2.4, and hopefully we will be able to get future versions out much sooner.
So what happened to Presto 2.3? Well, it's actually out there in some products, such as the Linux SDK. For those of you who need more information on Presto 2.3 or if you are just curious, our documentation team just published a document detailing the
Web specifications supported in Opera Presto 2.3.
Friday, 30. October 2009, 14:00:00
opera, widgets, w3c, patents
...
If you read the
report from the W3C Patent Advisory Group (PAG) regarding Apple's
patent claim against the Widgets 1.0 specification, you will not only see the reasons why the PAG does not think the patent is relevant, but it also reveals some worrying things about the way Apple handled the whole thing.
Read more...
Monday, 26. October 2009, 15:30:28
logo, opera
The Opera icon was updated for Opera 10, and now the company logo has received a facelift as well:
Head over to the
press resources page for various other formats and colour combinations.
I'm sure that some people will hate it, but I guess you can't please everyone
Friday, 9. October 2009, 13:04:03
opera, widgets, w3c, patents
...
Back in April, I wrote about how Apple tried to
block the W3C Widgets specification with a patent claim.
After spending a lot of W3C members' money to figure out if Apple's claims were valid, the Patent Advisory Group has now come to a conclusion: The work on Widgets 1.0 will continue. Apple's patent claim does not appear to be relevant to the Widgets 1.0 specification:
The Patent Advisory Group concluded that the inventive step claimed by US Patent Nr. 5,764,992 lies in the fact that the software program can update itself absolutely independent of functions performed by any resource external to the current software program. As the Widgets 1.0: Updates Draft uses an update-manager throughout the Specification, such self-updating does not occur.
Read the full report here:
Report of the Patent Advisory Group on the Widgets Updates Specification
Wednesday, 16. September 2009, 11:33:36
opera mini, opera mini 5, tips, opera
...
Opera Mini 5 Beta is finally out!
As you can see, a lot has changed since Opera Mini 4. Here are a few tips on how to get more out of the new version.
Read more...
Monday, 14. September 2009, 13:59:33
opera, mini5, opera mini, shiny
The
opera.com/next teaser page that was published last week is for Opera Mini 5, as confirmed by
Opera's Twitter page and the
Choose Opera blog.
Read more...
Friday, 11. September 2009, 08:18:03
opera, mobile
Less than a month ago,
Jon SvT was listed as one of the
top 40 to watch in mobile by telecoms.com.
Now GigaOM has created a list of the
top 15 mobile influencers, and Jon is on that list as well:
Below are GigaOM editors’ top 15 most influential people in the Mobile Internet; together they make up the inaugural Mobilize 15 Influencers, a list that is going to be published annually in tandem with our Mobilize conference. We have purposely listed them in no particular order
You can read their
reason for including him in the list:
As co-founder and CEO, Jon S. Von Tetzchner recognized that mobile browsers lacked in key areas such as speed and web page rendering, and led the effort to cement the Opera mobile browsers as major players in the space. This push into the mobile phone segment was so successful that Opera is now included on a significant number of smartphones shipped worldwide.
There's even a poll where GigaOM readers can vote for their #1 from the 15 people listed.
Friday, 4. September 2009, 06:44:15
opera, news
A Soviet Era-style building, St. Hanshaugen, Oslo, Norway, Europe, Tellus. September 4, 2009 (Opera NewsWire):The official release of Opera 10 has been met with great enthusiasm from almost all 5 Opera users. After a record-breaking 3 downloads within 24 hours of the release, the reviews are raving, and one Opera enthusiast even thinks he will be able to get his older sister to use Opera, boosting the user count to an unprecedented 6 users.
Read more...
Wednesday, 2. September 2009, 18:14:38
gmail, opera
Google's
David Bloom (yes, he has a blog at My Opera
) points out that Opera is
the only browser which supports "
<input type="url">", which means that Opera is the only browser which works properly with Gmail's "Insert Link" feature in the rich text composer.
Head over to his blog if you want to see a
screenshot.
Wednesday, 2. September 2009, 13:33:26
opera, downloads
Nearly 2 million downloads on the first day of Opera 10 is a nice increase from the nearly 600 000 downloads of Opera 9 in 2006. While it might not be much compared to other browsers with much bigger and wider distribution channels, it clearly shows a decent level of interest for Opera 10.
The comments I have seen on various sites about Opera 10 mostly seem positive as well. A lot of people seem to be switching to Opera now.
Let's hope we can get Carakan, 3D accelerated Vega, and so on into public Opera builds soon-ish (not necessarily this year, but you never know). If you think Opera 10 is fast, imagine what a brand new JavaScript engine and accelerated graphics can do for you...
Tuesday, 1. September 2009, 12:44:20
internet channel, opera, flash, wii
...
As you probably know by now,
Opera 10.0 for desktop is finally out.
But that's not all. Your Wii might be glowing blue today with a nice surprise for you: There's a new version available, and it has updated to a more recent Flash version. Not only that, but the Internet Channel (powered by Opera) is now a free download! And if already you paid, you will get a free NES game for the trouble.
Not bad.
The new Flash version
reports itself as "9,1,122,0", but it is most likely Flash Lite 3, which according to
Adobe's FAQ calls itself Flash 9.
The FAQ also states that Flash Lite 3 supports all Flash 9 content except ActionScript 3. If it comes across such content, it will display a Flash icon to let you know that the content is not supported.
It's good to see that Nintendo finally decided to
replace the old and outdated Flash 7 version used on the Internet Channel.
Friday, 28. August 2009, 10:46:47
opera, financials
The financial results for the
second quarter of 2009 are now available. Overall revenue was up 53%, and desktop revenue was up 93% since Q2 2008, which is lower than the previous quarters (currency rates are probably relevant here).
Read more...
Monday, 24. August 2009, 10:00:00
javascript, opera, futuremark, peacekeeper
...
DailyTech recently
interviewed Futuremark's Oliver Baltuch. As some of you may know, Futuremark are the makers of the well known hardware benchmarking software, 3DMark. A while ago, they released the
Peacekeeper Web browser benchmark.
Read more...
Wednesday, 19. August 2009, 09:43:42
mobile, opera
Telecoms.com has compiled a list of the
top 40 people to watch in the mobile industry:
Who really holds the reins in the mobile communications industry? This is a question with an endless answer, so intricate and complex are the webs which create the mobile services on which billions of people rely every day.
The list is of course their subjective opinion, which is always the case with such lists.
They also have a
bio page with a brief description of Jon and some of his and Opera's accomplishments.
Wednesday, 12. August 2009, 13:13:23
antitrust, opera, chrome, office
...
It doesn't look like Microsoft is learning from its past mistakes.
Microsoft's "Office Web Apps" will only support IE, Firefox and Safari. This means that they are
leaving out support for Opera and Chrome. This is quite strange considering the antitrust troubles Microsoft has gotten itself into by breaking antitrust laws.
Microsoft is also aiming for using Silverlight, yet another proprietary technology controlled by them.
One would think that Microsoft would be eager to show that they are no longer going to abuse their dominant position in one market to affect a different market, but even with antitrust authorities breathing down their necks, their priorities seem to be a bit off.
These priorities seem to be based on the browser situation in the United States. Europe is quite different, however. While Opera's global market share seems to be around 3%, it could be
approaching 10% in Europe, which is more than Safari and Chrome combined if one is to believe these statistics.
Perhaps if other browser vendors weren't forced to spend so much time on compatibility issues due to IE's dominance, standards support could be taken to a new level. But designing for browsers rather than standards still seems to be the norm. Even though Microsoft in particular should know better.
Do we need another
Opera Bork Edition (and a Chrome Bork Edition while we are at it)?
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