Saturday, 23. February 2008, 06:44:54
translation, Opera, Japan
All in all, I decided to write something here again. I almost lost my passion, but I got to know the young Opera lovers, so I liked to help them if there exists what I can do, even in a small degrees.
Some Japanese who wants to evangelize Opera in our country, translated
change log of weekly builds, for the most of the readers here, it means almost nothing though.
Opera recently
called for volunteer translators, so if any of you who know more than two languages, along with passions for Opera, might be able to do something meaningful, not only for Opera, but also for yourself, I think.
Monday, 21. January 2008, 11:56:27
willcom, Opera, mobile, Japan
Today, we had a press show for next WILLCOM handsets, coming within months in Japan. The 2 of those new models are equipped with Opera.
One flag-ship model is
WX330K, and the other is colourful and slim
HONEY BEE.
The web=
O is seen very well at
MyCom Journal's shot.
BTW, Opera on those WILLCOM handset are version 7.2EX, which is basically a version 7.2 with many modifications.
[
Added 21/Jan] engadget
wrongly called HONEY BEE as WX330K, in reality it's 331K. Oh, that's not their fault, but
of Akihabara news'.
Remember, even if you cannot read Japanese at all, try to look for any Alphabets in the ORIGINAL, in this case, at WILLCOM or KYOCERA.
Added 23/Jan Akihabara news fixed the mistake but engadget still not.
Wednesday, 2. January 2008, 12:12:05
minefield, Yahoo, Japan, Firefox
After Beta testings for a while, Yahoo! Japan opened
the new top page since yesterday, 1st of Jan. 2008. It requires wide screen, over 1000px(!), and further worse for us, Opera users, if we turn FtWW on, the main contents are located far below.
But if you try to open that page with Minefield, you can read, though in Japanese, a warning,
To use all functions of Yahoo! JAPAN, you need below environments;
Windows：Internet Explorer 5.5 or above, 6.x、7.x / Firefox 2.0 or above, Macintosh：Safari 2.x
As you see, no Opera is there. We have to try to persuade Yahoo! Japan to add Opera, but they offer us full contents at present, contrary to the above statements
It might be lucky for us. Thanks for 'wonderful' technologies.
You can see 3 columns design with Opera, IE or Firefox2, anyways. But their 'wonderful' browser detection rejects Minefield. They perhaps read 'Firefox', not 'Gecko', to recognize 'that' popular browser.
With Minefield, new Yahoo! Japan is 2 colmuns style with other outdated, basic browsers. So some of the users and developers of it started to write about it by now. I can't believe there aren't any Minefield users at Yahoo! Japan though.
Poor design, poor UA detection, and above all, hateful 'Use those enviroments' at site which has
the largest number of visitors in this country.
N.B. Yahoo! Japan is independent from yahoo.com or any other yahoo around the world.
[4th, Jan] They have fixed this issue. Now Gecko can show you full contents.
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