Xtreme OTW !

By Navjot Paweranavjotpawera. Tuesday, May 29, 2007 10:09:59 AM

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  • 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 cool

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 bigsmile

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) bigsmile

UPDATE

Here is the list of 8 widgets uploaded by us (More coming soon) :
  1. Presentation Helper : http://widgets.opera.com/widget/6822
  2. Bash.org Quotes : http://widgets.opera.com/widget/6840
  3. Password Manager : http://widgets.opera.com/widget/6836
  4. bLaugh Comics : http://widgets.opera.com/widget/6846
  5. Bhagavad Gita : http://widgets.opera.com/widget/6858
  6. CSS Help : http://widgets.opera.com/widget/6916
  7. World Population : http://widgets.opera.com/widget/6917
  8. DynDNS Updater : http://widgets.opera.com/widget/6918
  9. 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 smile

To Rishikesh: Road TripOpen the Web @ WebChutney

Comments

Henrik HelmersHelmers Tuesday, May 29, 2007 12:43:10 PM

Wow, great work guys! bigsmile

Anonymous Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:38:29 PM

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...

J. KingMTKnight Tuesday, May 29, 2007 4:38:06 PM

What were the fifty sites in question?

J.Z. HerrenbergIbsen Tuesday, May 29, 2007 4:54:04 PM

What were the fifty sites in question?



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

Anonymous Tuesday, May 29, 2007 5:28:09 PM

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.

Pallab DeIndyan Tuesday, May 29, 2007 5:59:38 PM

Well done guys smile

Øyvind ØstlundNoteMe Tuesday, May 29, 2007 7:10:21 PM

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 Friday, June 1, 2007 9:44:50 AM

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.

R. van Dijkvandijk2006 Monday, June 4, 2007 7:54:43 PM

Thanks guys for providing the list of new widgets. Keep us posted on the 50 websites!

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