Shadow's Workshop

Back in the early days of Opera 9, i was very excited about one feature in particular,widgets. I was so excited that I imediatly signed-up to my Opera just so that i could submit one.

In those days i was very eager to created widgets and test out all the things it could offer. I never got past 2 small widgets, because the biggest widget i was working on at that time turned out to rely on a bug which allowed access to the file system.

As soon as i had my prototype done, Opera pushed out a new version and i was left hanging. I tried to use signed java applets but it turned out that didn't work at all, so eventually i gave up completly on widgets.

Fast forward to this morning, when Opera published an article on Dev.Opera entitled File I/O API which describes a new mechanism to read,write files with a widget. It's an interesting read maybe i'll try it out on the new beta.