Want to get started with progressive web apps, but not sure where to start? This page will list the best resources we know of to help you understand Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), get started and learn things in depth.
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve spoken about Opera’s involvement with progressive web apps at Web Rebels in Oslo and at the PWA Dev Summit in Amsterdam. Here are videos of these talks.
We’re excited to release a Labs build of Opera for Android with support for two experimental features that enhance the discoverability and use of progressive web apps.
The two-day Chrome Dev Summit at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View is a wrap! Vadim and I had a great time attending the summit, and this year, I even had the pleasure to speak about Progressive Web Apps
Last week, Bruce and I were in London for two high-profile web standards events, where we spoke about installable web apps and the exciting possibilities it brings.
Worldreader is a non-profit organization providing free digital book people in developing countries. I got to ask their team a few questions regarding their fascinating work in developing countries
The W3C device orientation API allows us to determine the orientation of a device in physical space. In this advanced tutorial we cover some of the pitfalls and propose some new ways of working with this data for developing practical device-orientation-aware web applications on mobile devices.
Media Capture is one of the most interesting features in web applications, especially for mobile devices. Surprisingly capturing media on the spot is quite a new thing for browsers in general, until recently always being delegated to browser plugins such as Flash or Silverlight. In this article we will explore how to use the Media Capture APIs, their compatibility across mobile browsers and the current state of the W3C specifications that define them.
Opera 14 for Android is built on top of Chromium 26, with a total overhaul of the UI in native code, making it fit well with the latest Android design guidelines. Go get the build from Google Play or point your browser to m.opera.com, and give it a spin!
Yes, that’s right: 14. We think that the engine switch from Presto to WebKit that we announced a few weeks ago is such a big step that we decided to skip the 13 number altogether, and go straight to 14! But there’s more than just the engine to talk about: you’ll also notice a total overhaul of the UI in native code, making it fit well with the latest Android design guidelines. Go get the beta from Google Play or point your browser to m.opera.com, and give it a spin!
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.