Opera India

Xtreme OTW !

By navjotpawera. Tuesday, 29. May 2007, 10:09:59

Mission: Xtreme "Open the Web"
Target: Open 50 websites
Team: 8 members of the Opera India team (well, 6 and a half actually .. Sigbjorn and Anil were busy with other things ... )
Time alloted: 4 days
Time taken: 2 days

Last week the complete Opera India team took upon themselves a task of going all "gung-ho" about fixing web sites. We would be working 24/7 for the next 4 days. We started at 8 in the morning, finishing at 8 in the evening. This kind of a task is usually an "Open the Web" department responsibilty, but this week all joined hands. We set up a target of 50 websites, in 4 days. We completed it in 2 days

As you can see, we set up an ad-hoc xtreme workplace, and went full throttle. After completing, the task, we were still high on the adrenaline and went on for an "xtreme widget-dev" mania. I think Sagar had too much of the sugar coated candy (supplied by Vivek) and went on to make 8 widgets in 2 days !!!!

Feels good now. 50 better websites out there (I know its a long way we have to go though)

UPDATE

Here is the list of 8 widgets uploaded by us (More coming soon) :

Presentation Helper : http://widgets.opera.com/widget/6822
Bash.org Quotes : http://widgets.opera.com/widget/6840
Password Manager : http://widgets.opera.com/widget/6836
bLaugh Comics : http://widgets.opera.com/widget/6846
Bhagavad Gita : http://widgets.opera.com/widget/6858
CSS Help : http://widgets.opera.com/widget/6916
World Population : http://widgets.opera.com/widget/6917
DynDNS Updater : http://widgets.opera.com/widget/6918
Scripts of the World : http://widgets.opera.com/widget/6956

The 50 websites have been contacted, it still remains to be seen if they implement the fixes

To Rishikesh: Road TripOpen the Web @ WebChutney

Comments

Helmers # 29. May 2007, 12:43

Wow, great work guys!

Anonymous # 29. May 2007, 14:38

Nico writes:

Did you include Google (more specifically GMail)?? They spent $100 million on buying feedburner, you'd think they can afford to make their sites work in Opera...

MTKnight # 29. May 2007, 16:38

What were the fifty sites in question?

Ibsen # 29. May 2007, 16:54

What were the fifty sites in question?

My question exactly... But - keep up the good work!

Anonymous # 29. May 2007, 17:28

Anonymous writes:

Good work! I'm also very curious about the 50 websites, but also about the 8 new widgets. I just checked the newest widgets and I happened to see CNews Pakistan ;-) was in the last 5.

Indyan # 29. May 2007, 17:59

Well done guys

NoteMe # 29. May 2007, 19:10

Incredible achievement. I salute you. Keep up the good work. This is what I love about computer science. In what other fields of work do you see crazy ideas like this put to life? I can't think of many...

- ØØ -

Anonymous # 1. June 2007, 09:44

Anonymous writes:

Damn this is pissing me off.

Where are the sites?????

I want the lists of sites or you can just delete the OP.