- Opera 10 Web Browser now available in alpha
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Posted by oVan on Monday, December 08, 2008 | PermaLink | 0 comments
Opera Software lets us have a sneak peek at Opera 10! You can now download an alpha version of Opera 10 at http://www.opera.com/browser/next/. Here’s a quick rundown on what’s new:
- Presto 2.2 Engine
- Performance boost
- 100/100 and pixel-perfect on the Acid3 test
- Auto-update
- Inline spelling checker
- Opera Mail improvements, including rich text composition and delete after X days
Here’s some more detail on the improvements and new features:
Opera 10 contains Opera's new rendering engine, Opera Presto 2.2, which will be integrated with all future Opera 10 products. This rendering engine gives us up to 30 percent faster browsing experience (compared to Opera Presto 2.1 from Opera 9.5).
For web developers: support for standards has improved also, resulting in a 100/100 score on the famous Acid3 test. There are also improved tools for web developers: you can use Web Fonts, including SVG font files, making great typography possible for designing web sites. Now it is also easier to make page elements transparent, by using a transparency channel added to RGB and HSL (so: RGBA and HSLA). Finally, Opera Dragonfly has improved website debugging, editing the DOM and inspecting the HTTP Headers.
There are some more improvements for the users too: spellchecker while you’re typing, auto update to the latest versions as they become available, and Opera Mail now supports HTML formatted e-mails.
“My favorite development in this release is the support for new Web technologies, which allows people to explore new ways of using the Internet," says Johan Borg, Vice President of Consumer Engineering, Opera Software. "Our 100/100 Acid3 Test score is only a first indication of the impact these new Web technologies will have. We look forward to your feedback on Opera 10.”
Find out more and download Opera 10 free: http://www.opera.com/browser/next/.
Labels: alpha, browser, download, free, Opera, semantic, standards, SVG
- Test your website on all browsers for free!
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Posted by oVan on Monday, June 11, 2007 | PermaLink | 1 commentsThis is an excellent tip for developers who want to test their website on all major browsers and platforms, without having to buy a Mac, Windows and Linux pc at the same time.
On browsershots.org you can get a screenshot of your website from a whole list of available browsers. It does take a while before you get all screenshots (from 15 minutes to a few hours sometimes), probably due to its large success so far. However, since this is a free service, there's no need to complain I suppose.
Here are some screenshot from browsershots.org that shows this very blog as it is displayed in Opera 9.20 on Linux and Firefox 2.0.0.4 also on Linux:
When you click on the image of the Opera screenshot, you'll see a close-up like this:
And finally when you click again, you'll get a 1:1 view on the screenshot, so you can examine every pixel of your layout.
If you need a faster solution, you can try BrowserCam which has affordable prices and gives you near instant results and much more options.Labels: Apple, browser, Firefox, free, Internet Explorer, linux, Opera, screen capture, Web Designer, web develoment
- Microsoft Silverlight, not there yet!
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Posted by oVan on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 | PermaLink | 0 commentsYou've probably read about Microsoft Silverlight by now, the new and fancy name for WPF/E that runs on both Windows and Mac, and on Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera.
The trouble is that their website will only showcase it's own Silverlight techniques on April 30. If you want to give it a test-run yourself, you're stuck with the old February CTP. This leaves me with an unfinished impression that will not, eeuh, impress potential developers and companies yet.
Maybe you want to download some Silverlight goodies while you're waiting on Microsoft to finish up? Perhaps a nice widescreen wallpaper, "Silverlight Dawn" or "Silverlight Dusk"? Too bad they offer very strange resolutions — anyone heard of 1400x864 or 1600x800 (which turns out to be 1600x1050 instead of the industry standard 1680x1050). I guess it's time for a better wallpaper from Ultimate Vistas!Labels: download, Expression, Firefox, free, IE, Mac, Microsoft, Opera, Silverlight, wallpaper, Windows, WPF, WPF/E