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Opera Mobile 10 beta 2 developer’s introduction
By Daniel Davis · Wednesday, December 2, 2009 23
Opera has just released Opera Mobile 10 beta 2, the latest version of our browser for smartphones. In this article we explore Opera Mobile 10's main features, new standards support and Opera Dragonfly features, and how to optimize sites for mobile. Read more…
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A developer’s look at Opera Mini 5 beta 2
By Chris Mills · Wednesday, December 2, 2009 49
It’s a great day — Opera Mini 5 beta 2 is now available to download and try out! This article takes you through what’s new in Opera Mini 5 in terms of features and web standards support, and offers some tips for optimizing your web sites for viewing on mobile. Read more…
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Mobile 1: Introduction to the mobile web
By Brian Suda · Tuesday, June 23, 2009 7
This is the first article in the Opera web standards curriculum mobile series. This series is ideal for anyone who already has basic web development experience and wants to learn about the mobile web, and how to optimize web sites for viewing on mobile devices. Read more…
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Opera Mobile 9.7 - features and standards support
By Chris Mills · Monday, June 8, 2009 9
A new beta of Opera Mobile 9.7 is now available for Windows Mobile! This article takes you through all the exciting new features available in this build, and shows off some of the most exciting new web standards support it features. Read more…
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Barcodes: connecting the real-world to the virtual
By Brian Suda · Friday, November 21, 2008 5
Barcodes are becoming vastly more interesting in recent times, with 2D barcodes allowing you to represent anything from URLs to invoices, which in turn allows us to connect physical images to applications in all kinds of interesting ways. In this article Brian Suda discusses the history of barcodes, what’s available today for creating and reading barcodes, and real-world use cases. Read more…
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Mobile style - CSS Mobile Profile 2.0
By David Storey · Wednesday, September 3, 2008 0
In this article, David Storey looks at CSS Mobile Profile 2.0, the W3C’s recommended subset of CSS that should be used for styling your documents if you intend them to be viewed across mobile devices. He lists what is supported under the Mobile Profile, how it differs from CSS 2.1, and some advice on progressive enhancement (applying more advanced styles to more capable devices). Read more…
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Mobile markup - XHTML Basic 1.1
By David Storey · Thursday, August 28, 2008 3
In this article, David Storey briefly introduces the history of markup for mobile devices, then gives an overview of the recently published XHTML Basic 1.1—the W3C’s recommended markup language for mobile specific Web sites. Read more…
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Remote debugging with Opera Dragonfly
By David Storey · Thursday, July 17, 2008 1
In this article David Storey introduces the remote debugging feature of Opera Dragonfly - Opera’s new developer tools. You'll learn how to set up Opera Dragonfly for remote debugging and how to connect Opera Mobile 9.5 to Opera Dragonfly, so you can debug content running directly on it. Read more…