Evolving the Internet on your phone: Designing web sites with Opera Mini 4 in mind

Designing your web site with mobile internet access in mind is becoming increasingly important. Developing with web standards goes a long way towards improving the mobile experience, but there are also optimisation techniques available to improve it further. Fortunately, this doesn't mean a whole lot of headache, extra code, or alternative site versions. With today's new school of mobile browsers, including Opera Mini 4 (the new version of Opera's revolutionary mobile browser software,) all you really need to do (with a few exceptions) is follow a few best practices to get your web pages to provide a positive user experience, no matter what device is used to access them. This article shows you how.

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Good article. Especially the parts about standards support in Mini is interesting.
Some nitpicking:

• the third paragraph in the overview has a "click here" link.
• "xmlHttpRequest" should be "XMLHttpRequest"
• The list under "Small Screen/Fit to width rendering" says "Zero support for plug-ins, SVG and Web Forms 2" and "Zero support is available for plug-ins, SVG and Web Forms 2"

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I fixed the nitpicks - I should have caught those, but you wouldn't believe how late I was getting that article finalized ;-)

One question popped up while reading this. Does OM ignore background pictures, period? Does it only apply background colour?


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NoteMe: Currently OM4 displays background images in desktop overview mode and ignores them in the single column view (fit to width) mode.