Opera Playground

It's still going on to improve the quality but anyways we now have new, localized MyOpera
I used to write here in English, but now we can set Japanese (日本語) UI. It's quite important, because some of the new MyOpera users access here with Game Console, like Wii. I heard Wii has pre-set link to MyOpera, so even Japanese children can use MyOpera, then previously they might surprise to see English contents.

Different from some other countries, we have over 120 millions' population in our isolated islands, so almost everything is translated into our native language. We can live without using or even knowing another languages in daily life at all, including the most of specilized documents. It must be good indeed, but it sometimes hinders us to communicate the people around the world.
We had Japanese MyOpera forum of which UI was English for a while, and at last,we have forum all in Japanese! As I wrote above, we know it still has several issues, but it will be solved by our experts both in Oslo and Tokyo, for they work too hard for us.
Kudos to engineers and translators.

Japan Cnet.com's this interview to Jon in two pages is worth to read.

For those who can't read Japanese, I pick up some interesting points below. (If you really want to read it, learn Japanese.)

1. We've never compromised speed and functions. Still ours are smaller than Firefox by 1MB.
2. For over ten years, we put stress on its size. When we wrote codes, think if we can make it smaller/faster or not. After that, we seek to add new functions. Our target is 'work on 10 years old computers', so we have to make code compact and efficient. Those policies are also important for mobile devices.
3. Why Opera is so popular for cell phones? (Jon) We make Desktop browser, which we think our strong points. Other cell phone browser makers don't have desktop browsers. They add functions to comply the need for their browsers little by little.
4. We talk about the standardisations of Widgets at W3C and WHATWG. If all widgets, Opera's, Dashboard, Gadgets, Yahoo! Widget, Google Desktop, work on any platforms, environments, that's fine. Then people can use them on their favorite platform.
5. First Opera was made on Sun OS. Later Windows Opera. Opera is multi platform by birth.