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Exciting new experiments from our laboratories

  • Desktop build with new extension APIs: Screenshot, Resource Loader and URL filter

    By Chris Mills · Wednesday, May 16, 2012 5

    We've been working hard recently to improve the functionality available inside Opera extensions, and today we are proud to reveal some of the fruits of our labours. In this article we'll share with you some new experimental desktop builds that feature three new extension APIs: the screenshot API, the resource loader API, and several updates to the URL filter API. Read more…

  • Opera Mobile Emulator build with experimental WebKit prefix support

    By Bruce Lawson · Friday, April 27, 2012 18

    Through our site compatibility work, we have experienced that many site authors only use -webkit- prefixed CSS, thereby ignoring other vendor prefixes and not even including an unprefixed equivalent. This leads to a reduced user experience on non-WebKit browsers, as they don't receive the same shiny effects, even although they support them. To tackle this problem, we are releasing an experimental Opera Mobile Emulator build with experimental support for selected -webkit- prefixes. Read more…

  • Extensions come to Opera Mobile

    By Andreas Bovens · Tuesday, April 3, 2012 31

    When adding extensions support to our Presto engine, a lot of time was spent behind the scenes so as to make our extensions framework very versatile and lightweight, with the aim of using it on other platforms as well. Today, we're happy to present you with an early preview of extensions running on Opera Mobile! Read more…

  • Opera Mobile 12 for Android Ice Cream Sandwich MIPS tablet

    By Chris Mills · Monday, February 27, 2012 3

    Opera is proud to unveil a labs build of Opera Mobile 12, for devices built on MIPS architecture, which has already been run successfully on top of Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Read more…

  • Opera Mobile 12 for x86 architectures

    By Chris Mills · Monday, February 27, 2012 1

    Opera is proud to unveil a labs build of Opera Mobile 12, for devices built on Intel x86 architectures, which has already been run successfully on top of Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Read more…

  • A treat for Nokia N9 users - an official Opera Mobile 11.5 Labs release

    By Mostyn Bramley-Moore · Tuesday, February 21, 2012 22

    Since our previous releases of Opera Mobile for MeeGo, we have noticed that a lot of our users have been hanging out for an official Opera Mobile build for the Nokia N9 and N950 Harmattan phones. Well, today is your lucky day — we're happy to announce that a Labs release of Opera Mobile 11.5 for Harmattan is available for download now. Read more…

  • 64-bit Opera, and out-of-process plug-ins

    By Chris Mills · Thursday, February 9, 2012 111

    Originally published just before Christmas 2011, and now updated with a new set of builds on February 9th 2012, Opera is proud to present a new labs release featuring 64-bit builds and out-of-process plug-ins. Read more…

  • getUserMedia: accessing the camera and privacy UI

    By Bruce Lawson · Tuesday, January 10, 2012 22

    getUserMedia alllows access to a device's camera and microphone. This article shows how to access the camera and demonstrates a Privacy User Interface that Opera is experimenting with. Includes moustaches and exploding cameras. Read more…

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Labs builds

  • Latest getUserMedia and privacy builds January 10, 2012
  • Opera 12 out-of-process plug-ins and 64-bit builds December 15, 2011
  • Opera Mobile Labs 11.5 for MeeGo November 2, 2011
  • Opera's getUserMedia and native pages preview builds October 19, 2011

Labs graduates

  • HTML5 Parser (Ragnarök) Added to Opera 11.60 beta and later.
  • WebGL and Hardware acceleration Added to Opera 12 alpha and later.
  • WebM video Added to Opera 10.60 beta, Opera Mobile 11.5 for Android 3.x and later.

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