Another Opera Report in Japanese
Friday, 27. April 2007, 06:22:05
"The HTML 5 changes the capabilities of browser's expression." (My poor translation for the original title, sorry for that.)
This is the second article in the series of reporting OperaASA by ASCII Japan, the previous article, issued last week was about the so called "Flat Management" of the international company.
The above cited 4 pages Japanese article, including the photographs of Jan Standal, Scott Hedrick and Bjarte Vosseteig, tells us some interesting stories about Opera. The most of them are not really new to 'you', that there are three spheres at Opera, Desktop, Mobile and Devices, for example.
Here I will show you some interview part of it, to three persons, mentioned above. The Product Manager of Desktop Opera, Jan, says that "Rich Graphics Experience" as well as "Convergence" is important for Opera in the future. "Convergence", he explains, the same web site can be viewed by various devices, PC, cellphone, PDA and Game machines, not using the different HTMLs, like WAP-specific or Compact HTML. Opera has already got a SSR with Opera Mobile, and you can use "Widget" made for PC, on cellphone. He says the "same" Widget works both PC and cellphone, which attracts my attention. He also mentions the Opera_Video version, which most of you have downloaded and played with it.
For the "Rich Graphics Experience", interviewer asks Jan, there are WPF and Adobe's Apollo, with both of which, you can use rich GUI environments, how you think of those technologies.(at page 3) He answered that NewYorkTimes offers rich graphic NewsReader using WPF, but to use them, you have to download many programs before it, and those are a little complicated. WPF at the moment, needs Windows Vista, to work with it, so it might need some time to spread to the mass public. As for Flash, you can't control it with browser. On the contrary, HTML/XHTML and browsers have been already used by the mass.
Now for Scott, he tells us a big news about Opera devices. "In the future, another Japanese large company will announce the use of Opera with their products, though we are not at the stage of public press release now."
Lastly, in the photograph of Bjarte, he shows us a working Widget on a tiny phone.
This is the second article in the series of reporting OperaASA by ASCII Japan, the previous article, issued last week was about the so called "Flat Management" of the international company.
The above cited 4 pages Japanese article, including the photographs of Jan Standal, Scott Hedrick and Bjarte Vosseteig, tells us some interesting stories about Opera. The most of them are not really new to 'you', that there are three spheres at Opera, Desktop, Mobile and Devices, for example.
Here I will show you some interview part of it, to three persons, mentioned above. The Product Manager of Desktop Opera, Jan, says that "Rich Graphics Experience" as well as "Convergence" is important for Opera in the future. "Convergence", he explains, the same web site can be viewed by various devices, PC, cellphone, PDA and Game machines, not using the different HTMLs, like WAP-specific or Compact HTML. Opera has already got a SSR with Opera Mobile, and you can use "Widget" made for PC, on cellphone. He says the "same" Widget works both PC and cellphone, which attracts my attention. He also mentions the Opera_Video version, which most of you have downloaded and played with it.
For the "Rich Graphics Experience", interviewer asks Jan, there are WPF and Adobe's Apollo, with both of which, you can use rich GUI environments, how you think of those technologies.(at page 3) He answered that NewYorkTimes offers rich graphic NewsReader using WPF, but to use them, you have to download many programs before it, and those are a little complicated. WPF at the moment, needs Windows Vista, to work with it, so it might need some time to spread to the mass public. As for Flash, you can't control it with browser. On the contrary, HTML/XHTML and browsers have been already used by the mass.
Now for Scott, he tells us a big news about Opera devices. "In the future, another Japanese large company will announce the use of Opera with their products, though we are not at the stage of public press release now."
Lastly, in the photograph of Bjarte, he shows us a working Widget on a tiny phone.
WIDGETIZE