Web Chat: Widgets 1.0 Working Draft
You may have seen the recent news that the first working draft of the Widgets 1.0 specification has been posted. Ajaxian notes the benefits of working toward a widget standard.With all the action going...
View ArticleEarly Holiday Gifts from the Web Apps Team
For a while now we've promised to put more tools in the hands of developers. We want to make it easier for you to create and debug sites and applications right in your Opera browser. Over on dev.opera,...
View ArticleWidget Web Chat: New Competition Planning
We're running the chat again today at our usual 5:00 PM CET time slot. I'm going to go over a new competition wii have planned, but I want everyone's feedback before we announce it. So if you want in...
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Happy new year!
From all here in the Web Applications team - Happy New Year! Here is a little something to put on your desktop while waiting for more news from us.Lets make 2007 an even better year for Web...
View ArticleWidget Web Chats: The Rebirth
Before the end of the year, it was clear we needed to breathe new life into the web chats we'd been running. We covered widgets, widget competitions and a few topics in between.We put our heads...
View ArticleWeb Developer Chat: Server-side development
We celebrated the rebirth of our weekly Web chat last week with David Storey, Opera's Chief Web Opener. It was great to see some new faces in addition to the core group who consistently join week in...
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Web Developer Chat: Håkon Wium Lie
Alright folks, I don't think I have to say a lot about this one. He proposed CSS. He's been one of the major proponents of the ACID2 test. He's currently working to get Opera on the little green...
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Web Developer Chat: Fredrik Andersson
I thought that after Håkon graced us with his presence, it would be fitting to follow that chat with someone who uses CSS the way a ninja wields the nunchaku. He's fast, precise and deadly. All joking...
View ArticleWeb Developer Chat: Opera's Web Developer Toolbar
As you may know from the Desktop team blog, we're planning to include the developer console in future Opera editions. Over on dev.opera, we released the tools separately: a DOM Console, CSS Editor and...
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Web Developer Chat: Jon von Tetzchner
You may have seen we're approaching the 1001st widget on widgets.opera.com. 1001 widgets is a milestone we want to celebrate properly with the readers of this blog. So we invited a special guest to our...
View ArticleYay My.Opera Developers
Today has been an exciting day, and it will be even more exciting when the developers on My Opera turn from working hard to party hard! The new My Opera community was launched today, and left several...
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Web Developer Chat: Håkon Wium Lie on the tag
Some folks have been curious about a little project we cooked up over on Opera Labs: The element. One of the main provocateurs for the tag is our very own CTO, Håkon Wium Lie. He'll join us on...
View ArticleScalable Server Sent Events
Poking through my newsreader I realised that it's been a long time since the Web Applications Team actually shared any real code samples with you guys, and I think it's about high time we fixed...
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Who can make the best travel widget?
As you may have seen over on the Widgets blog, Opera is running a new Widget competition. This time, we're looking for something useful to the harried and weary traveler. And remember, Opera Mobile 9...
View Articlewidgets.opera.com 2.0 - the best place for you to share and find Opera Widgets
It's a been a while since we unleashed widgets.opera.com 2.0 on the world so we're long overdue a blog post from the devs regarding what we have done and where we intend to take things. ...
View ArticleSearch engine friendly multi-language support on widgets.opera.com
What, why and how We have just released a new version of widgets.opera.com where we have reworked our multi-language solution to support search engines. Instead of storing the user selected language in...
View Articlewidgets.opera.com team coming to EuroPython
Just a quick shout out to the community. We've just had the flights confirmed for our attendance of EuroPython 2008 in Vilnius this summer. If I get my act together on it, I'm hoping to also give a...
View ArticleOpera Widgets SDK Beta launched!
With the release of the beta version of the Opera Widgets SDK, developers can get started on making widgets for mobile. So far UIQ 3.3 supports widgets, and support on more platforms are on the way....
View ArticleSlides from EuroPython08
Now that I'm settled home and recovered from the great Vilnius Mojitos it's time to get the slides online before people start complaining ;-)During the course of the conference I gave 2...
View ArticleNew security model for widgets, Opera 10 and network="public"
For Opera 10, we're introducing a new security model which among other things means that widgets don't have network access on by default. In order to enable network access for non-intranet sites, add a...
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