Opera Playground

As some of you noticed, Adobe released 8.1 of their acroread on Linux and Solaris.
-Acroread blog's post
At the same time, you can get CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) fonts from their site. That's not very bad, but I use anothers, which fit to my preferences. For some of you who read here, and would like to display CJK pages better, it may help.

For acroread on Linux, we have many other ways to read pdf, as you might point out, but some of out letters are missing with Linux's popular PDF applications, especially when we try to print them on paper. So I sometimes use acroread even on Linux.

On Windows? Liteweight Foxit works as I expect

I use mplayerplug-in 3.21, compiled for Opera on my Fedora Core 6, to view movies. It works fine, both with wmv and divx. Some have still troubles with its plugins, like bend tail who tried to test GNOME MPlayer and Gecko Media Player, but he couldn't install them on his Ubuntu Edgy, then he had to wait Ubuntu Feisty, to succeed to play movies with Linux Opera.

(The names of Edgy, Feisty, or something like that, the Ubuntu or Debian users use them so often. I don't know which is the latest or what's their differences. The Fedora users don't use Zod, Bordeaux, Stentz or Heidelberg, to call our distro. Those are the name of Fedora Core 6, 5, 4 and 3, respectively.)

Usual mplayerplug-in, complied for Opera, uses enable-x option, so naturally it doesn't offer visual buttons to control, like stop, fast forward and others. The advantage of GNOME MPlayer is that it has such controls, even with Opera. Other Japanese Fedora user succeeded to install and use it, so I will try them later.

In my case, it, as a browser plugins nor separate player, doesn't work. It gave me the below messages and Seg Fault.

$ gnome-mplayer
(process:3556): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2242: initialization assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init() prior to this function
(process:3556): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed
(process:3556): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

Do you know "opera_ex", which is a kind of "killer application" for Windows Opera users, at least here in Japan. It is used with customized menu.ini.

Now our friend, higeorange-san developed perl and ruby version for Linux.
-http://www14.plala.or.jp/operairc/misc/opera_ex/
-http://www14.plala.or.jp/operairc/misc/opera_ex/README
Readme is written in Japanese, but developers can understand what it is. If you select some sentences with it as quote, then you can paste it as below;

<a href="http://my.opera.com/community/blog/2006/12/14/win-a-wii-with-opera-wiidgets">Win a Wii with Opera Wiidgets</a>

Or as blockquote;

<blockquote cite="http://my.opera.com/community/blog/2006/12/14/win-a-wii-with-opera-wiidgets" title="Win a Wii with Opera Wiidgets - Opera Community News - by Opera Community">
<p>It's time for another competition to keep all you widget developers occupied over the holidays.</p>
</blockquote>

Both examples are made with just clicks! You don't have to copy and paste "cite" and "title" into blockquote. Why don't you try it now?