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WordPress goes mobile: responsive design comes to CMSes
By Rachel McCollin · Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1
Responsive design is quite easy when you control everything to do with the page, and you're working on a small and manageable site. But what about a sprawling CMS? In such circumstances, you'll often have to rely on plugins or extensions. Wordpress developer Rachel McCollin shares some of her wisdom on this very subject. Read more…
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Love your devices: adaptive web design with media queries, viewport and more
By Chris Mills · Thursday, November 24, 2011 2
In this article Chris Mills takes a look at techniques and technologies that we can adopt to create adaptive (or responsive) web sites, including percentage units, media queries and viewport. He also discusses some recent happenings in the area, such as considerations for display on tablet browsers, object-fit, and the @viewport CSS rule. Read more…
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Opera Reader: a new way to read the Web!
By Chris Mills · Wednesday, October 19, 2011 3
In this article, we'd like to present Opera Reader, a new technology that builds on top of CSS to allow us to split content into pages that can be "turned" in a natural manner through gestures rather than point and click, control the positioning/floating of figures in multi-column layouts more precisely and provide a consistent navigation system for such content that is independent of your documents. Read more…
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Opera Mobile Emulator for desktop
By Patrick H. Lauke · Wednesday, May 25, 2011 2
This article introduces the Opera Mobile Emulator for Windows, Linux and Mac, covering the launcher, command line hooks, remote debugging and more. Read more…
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Playing with HTML5 video & getUserMedia support
By Daniel Davis · Wednesday, October 19, 2011 1
Building on the famous exploding video demo by Sean Christmann, we're going to see how we can explode the video stream from a camera. With a few performance tweaks, this works surprisingly well both in desktop browser and on mobile devices. Read more…
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An introduction to meta viewport and @viewport
By Andreas Bovens · Tuesday, March 22, 2011 1
Support for the viewport meta tag in Opera’s mobile products has been around for quite some time — in Opera Mobile 11, we have made our viewport implementation more robust, added support for new mechanisms to deal with different screen densities, and included an implementation of our own @viewport rule proposal. So, what better time than now to give you an introduction to the various viewport related mechanisms you can use to optimize your site for mobile. Read more…
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Taking your web apps offline: A tale of Web Storage, Application Cache and WebSQL
By Shwetank Dixit · Tuesday, March 22, 2011 0
To make applications run fully offline, we should make ourselves familiar with three very interesting technologies: The HTML5 Application Cache, Web Storage and WebSQL Databases. This article looks at al three, showing how they can be used together to create an effective offline application. Read more…
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Opera Mini: web content authoring guidelines
By Opera Software · Friday, February 11, 2011 0
This article presents a detailed set of guidelines for optimizing web content for viewing on Opera Mini. It covers a complete range of topics, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, design considerations and more. Read more…