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Optimized for any modern mobile browsers

Monday, 29. January 2007, 06:44:15

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I mainly write about Opera in my mother language, Japanese, at HATENA diary, every day. If you open HATENA diary with some kinds of mobile phone, they offer different pages fot it, i.e. add '/mobile' at the end of URI, special page for mobile browsers. The HTML of that page is terrible, in my view, and with Opera Mini, it opens usual page, the same as desktop browsers open.

This is the /mobile page offered by HATENA, with WAP like strange HTML, like CENTER and H3 at the top, and the screenshot of it with Opera Mini.

So yesterday night, I added some short lines at headers in the original page, then Opera Mini shows the page fine.
These are the pages, if you open with Opera Mini, without extra CSS. The first one, with huge HATENA banner, then scroll a bit, the next one, still you need clicks for many times to go to the main text.

Then after adding the CSS, this is the page shown by Opera Mini with no scroll done yet.
I just add these lines, and put some div class="mobileskip" in the text,
@media handheld{
div.mobileskip, table#banner{display:none}
}

to skip graphical navigations with links for desktop browsers. Then I added 'Mini Optimized' banner at the top right corner. But I think if you use any other modern browser, then it must understand 'media=handheld' and shows what I intended.
I believe in 'One Web for All' and don't like to add .mobi or anything like that. If your mobile browser can't understand media="handheld", try Opera Mini now.

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OperaMini with YahooSearch

Wednesday, 10. January 2007, 09:07:27

Now I post this with OM3.0.6636,Ysearch New ver.WOW

[Comments from PC] I like to save money, so I set no-image with my OperaMini, then I can't see [Add Post] and some other important messages on button with that settings!:worried:

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WX310SA with Opera Mini

Thursday, 14. December 2006, 14:21:07

The last short post was from OM 3. at mini.opera, the server tries to offer Advanced version for WX310SA, but the informations and my own experience, WX310SA doesn't work well with Advanced version, it doesn't select 'Menu' at all. So I got -basic build, and it worked better.
I am a beginner of cell phone, so I can't use it well, especially I can't input long sentences with such a tiny buttons. Well, I'm so pleased with Mini, though it stops time to time :-)

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My Opera Mini 3.0 Trial

Saturday, 2. December 2006, 09:44:18

I've never had a cellphone. There was no need for me to have it. At last, however, I've gotten one.

A few months ago, when I met my old supervisor, a professor at University, she wanted me to have any kinds of such a tool, to confirm where she had to go, to meet me in a crowded city of Tokyo, so I finally decided to get a handy phone.

Usual handy phone are not my favour, their audio are so bad, bad enough to throw them away. So I selected WILLCOM's phone. Some of WILLCOM's phone have Opera Mobile with it. But recent news about Opera Mini 3.0 drives me to get Java installed one. Then I bought one made by Sanyo, WX310SA. It has Java with it.

Then I went to mini.opera.com to get the recent files of Opera Mini 3.0. The install was succeeded with ease. But Opera Mini couldn't connect to the web!

I Googled a few pages to seek a solution, then I found WX310SA doesn't admit Java applications to communicate to the web! What a fool thing it is! 310SA's default browser is Netfront, another pity fact for an Opera user!
There is an another Java based browser for this Sanyo, working like an Opera Mini, a jig browser. That Japanese Java browser can communicate to the web, through a phone's default ISP. One more pity thing it is, and I can't understand the reason why they don't admit Opera Mini to connect to the web.

The page of mini.opera.com offers the exact Opera Mini's files for WX310SA, which is useless, unless you have another ISP besides phone's default ISP. The get another ISP, you have to pay extra money for that. Quite a nonsense indeed, for that extra contract is needed only for Opera Mini users. Netfront or optional jig browser users can use default ISP, offered by WILLCOM.

A jig browser is not free, not free as beer. And I can't compare Netfront with Opera, that's an easy answer for a long time Opera user.

I use CATV as my ISP, so they don't offer mobile ISP. Then I have to look for another, cheap one, if it's possible, to use Opera Mini. So for a while, I don't use Mini. I use my new phone, just as an audio communicator and an e-mail terminal.

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Web in Africa

Wednesday, 29. November 2006, 06:52:10

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About the release of Opera Mini 3.0, the news from Africa is especially fantastic.

Opera Mini 3.0 Launched; Popular in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa
The web browser which works with almost any mobile phone has gain popularity in some African countries, especially Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa, according Tor Odland of Opera software in an exclusive email to Mobile Africa.


Once I viewed the video of Google Traffic Globe, the big continent was almost blank for them. In those countries, the full internet access via mobile phone has very significant meanings, much more than other areas.

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EBAY GOES MOBILE WITH OPERA MINI

Thursday, 1. June 2006, 14:31:22

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eBay and Opera Software today announced a joint pilot project to bring eBay`s Online Marketplace(R) to mobile phones in Germany. By offering a customized version of the popular Opera Mini mobile Web browser, eBay and Opera will enable people to sell, bid and buy using their mobile phones, anywhere, anytime.


From the public release of Oslo stockmarket.

It' "a pilot project" for OperaASA, and might be interesting I think.

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