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A game of ‘Opera tag’ – 5 things I’d like to see in Opera

Daniel started a great thing with Blog tag: 5 things I’d like to see in Opera. If the spreading remains at the current speed it will be, well, let's count-guess, Millions of posts in quite a short while … This has potential to get a hype (well, if it stops before we reach the Million we'll have to add another Opera tag question, maybe about 5 tips towards using the Opera browser).

I was tagged by: Claudio Santambrogio aka Csant, Non-Troppo, Pallab, Tobias Murano aka Tomu and Ayush.

Originally posted by Daniel Goldman:

Once you’ve been tagged by someone, share your list (on your blog) of 5 things you’d like to see in Opera

– looks like I have to post 5×5 points which actually came in handy as I already started wishes including a cluster of several things. Now I try to do 5 wishes each having about 5 somehow connected points.

A collection of links to many people's posts taking part in this Opera tag game can be found at the ChooseOpera blog. And Remco Lanting made a nice tagging tree.

Well, just when I was about finishing this post I got notice to be tagged another time by burnout426. Nonetheless I'll stick with 5×5 right now 😉 … Continue reading “A game of ‘Opera tag’ – 5 things I’d like to see in Opera”

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Future Opera: Preferences on a webpage

Index of my posts towards future Opera

When Opera copied Firefox's about:config and introduced Opera:config for advanced settings with Opera 9 I thought it is nice done but I also asked myself why they didn't take the whole thing further adding all the crowded settings of the preferences dialog together with the advanced Opera:config options and give it a nice and comfortable design. Get rid of this small preferences dialog window which I consider to be space inefficient, information hiding, likely to be unintuitive, inflexible on different screens and overall mostly harmful. …

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Experimental Opera-video build with native Ogg Theora support

Howcome (full name: Håkon Wium Lie) already presented Opera with build in video support (read Haavards post, watch a YouTube-video or the longer video posted by Daniel on Operawatch).

Recently an experimental Opera-video version for Windows with native support for Ogg Theora was made publicly available including some sample Theora video pages (OperaLabs, Howcomes page and Haavards post).

Although I'm not experienced with videos I had to go for this experiment and I think it is quite interesting and maybe it will help us to get rid at least a little bit of this nasty Flash world.

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Opera Mobile 8.65 beta for Windows Mobile – First Review

  • 2. April 2007: added some minor updates to this review
  • 3. April 2007: it is possible to import IE bookmarks from the GUI – thanks for your comment Denya
  • 5. April 2007: g will search with Google according to the changed changelog
  • 17. April 2007: now the changelog says again g will search with Yahoo!
  • 24. April 2007: in addition to the official changelog proxy settings are taken from the system settings and there is a workaround for the font issue displaying Windings, Greek or other not fitting fonts.
  • 20. June 2007: since 1. June 2007 there is a slightly updated version – running until 1. October 2007
  • 29. June 2007: added some information to new feature and problem with Save image
  • 29. June 2007: added section "New possibilities for customization" with hints towards userJS, userCSS and the possibility to stream media with TCPMP by editing [file types] section in opera.ini

Summary:

With the small raise in number from 8.6 to 8.65 lots of the most wanted features were added in the new beta of Opera Mobile: Flash support, saving of images, grab and scroll, import IE bookmarks, trouble-free install to storage card etc. Some bugs are gone, some minor flaws came (especially with some of the new functionality) but overall the new Opera Mobile 8.65 beta is really good and stable with strong (and unobtrusive) improvements.

Read on for the details or try yourself – the beta should run until 1. June 2007 1. October 2007 (new version with fixed launcher application ("not enough resources" etc.)

If you don't know Opera Mobile at all: it is a fully capable browser based on the Opera Desktop 8.x core and the most powerful Browser for mobile devices – at least until Opera Mobile 9 will be released 😉
For the previous version 8.6 you can read my Guide for Opera 8.60 for Windows Mobile, Pocket PC

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