Thursday, 2. October 2008, 12:07:44
ds, nintendo, browsers, dsi
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Nintendo
today unveiled the DSi as an upgrade to the massively popular
Nintento DS. There doesn’t seem to be any official information from Nintendo in English yet, and there are some conflicting reports on what the Japanese information actually states. Unfortunately, Nintendo of Japan’s site is using a Flash animation, so it’s impossible to use tools like Babelfish or Google Translate to translate it, and my Japanese is limited.
There are reports, however, stating that the DSi will have a built-in web browser (such as
ITavisen’s article from earlier today). VG goes so far as to state
that the browser is made by Opera. Some reports state that the browser is not to be built-in, but a free download. I haven’t seen any official
pressrelease from Opera saying that it is Opera that will come with the DSi yet, but since Opera already did the ill-fated
Nintendo DS browser, and the
Wii Internet Channel browser, it sounds like the natural choice.
And the screenshot on
Nintendo of Japan’s site (second-to-right tab, centre image) of the browser does look like a mix of the old DS Browser’s UI with the Wii Internet Channel’s buttons, so it only sounds natural.
I have a DS Lite, perhaps I’ll consider upgrading to a DSi. Having an easily-accessible built-in browser does sound nice, but it have better be faster than on the regular DS/DS Lite. That one has too little memory and is running on a too slow CPU to be very useful beyond browsing very basic sites. Unfortunately. There are limits to what you can make the such a small machine do.
Update:
Opera Software confirms that the DSi browser is Opera.

Monday, 18. August 2008, 09:39:35
opera, jamba, commercial
According to a
press release today, Opera Software is partnering with
Jamba, the leading provider of
annoying advertisments for
over-priced mobile phone ring-tones, wallpapers and other annoying so called “premium” content. The Jamba ads is one of the reasons why I have stopped watching MTV, they are so annoying, and so frequent, that I just can’t stand it (the top reason of course being that MTV no longer plays any music, so the reason to actually watch the channel is gone).
I hope this doesn’t mean that the Opera Mini start page will start blinking and playing “
Crazy Frog”-remixes…

Wednesday, 9. July 2008, 10:49:50
browsers, opera
Apparently
Opera 9.51 happened while I was
away on honeymoon last week. A friend of mine
claims 9.50 is extremly crash-prone (and 9.51 just slightly less so), but I haven’t seen these problems myself, all my 9.50/9.51 installations have been very stable.
Also included in the 9.51 version is an updated language file, which means that the embarrasing incorrect string that crept in to my Swedish translation for the hot-click menu is now gone, while there still is an untranslated one in the Save Session dialogue. Hopefully that can be corrected for the next minor release.

Wednesday, 11. June 2008, 09:52:52
opera, browsers
So, the
desktop team is producing release candidates and
CEO Jon von Tetzchner is addressing the community. This can only mean one thing, that the release of Opera 9.50 final is, finally, drawing near. Two years have passed since
Opera 9 was released,
almost one year since the first public alpha, and too many weekly builds and betas to count have passed review through the
desktop team’s blog, so it is about time…
I wonder if this is the right time to panic about not quite having finished off the Swedish translation of the help files? Probably. But I do hope they will be finished in time for the release. The actual program translation is the only part that is embedded in the installation archive, and that is already complete, the help files are
stored on a remote server, so they do not have to be finished immediately. But the sooner, the better…

Thursday, 27. March 2008, 06:03:06
acid3, browsers, safari, opera
Tim Altman writes that
Opera reaches a 100/100 score on the
Acid3 test, which,
together with Safari makes it the first browser to do so, even if it in Opera’s case is an unreleased internal test build (“WinGogi” is one of the internal testing platforms used by the Core team to test the most bleeding edge code, without having to rely on any of the platform teams to supply a full user interface), and in Safari’s case is the version on the trunk of their version control system.
Reaching 100 doesn’t necessary need the test passed, as there are other criteria, and the posts are silent on whether those have been reached as well. Of course, just after Opera reached 100,
Ian goes ahead and changes the tests, so it might take a few more builds before it reaches 100 again, but it is still great work, from both of the teams.
Now the race is on to be the first browser to actually
release a public build with the changes, and to release a non-beta version that passes. And for the other browsers to catch up.
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