Opera To Go Ads-Free?

Via Opera Watch. Opera is set to make an announcement regarding changes to its desktop browser revenue model. Most speculate that Opera will finally remove its ads in the free version of the browser to put it on the same playing ground as Mozilla Firefox. This is something Opera should have done a long time ago while at the same time charging for its mobile browser and expanding its product portfolio (possibly moving into the content generation space?). Trying to make a successful company based on desktop browser revenues when there are free alternatives out there for every single operating system is just insane, I'm surprised they've been able to do it.

The announcement will undoubtedly coincide with Opera's Virtual Party on Aug. 30th celebrating its 10-year anniversary where a "HUGE surprise" will be unveiled.

§145 · August 24, 2005 · Opera, QuickLinks, Software, Technology, Web · Comments Off on Opera To Go Ads-Free? ·

Top 10 Things To Fix for Opera’s SVG Implementation

For over a month now, Opera has been the only major browser out there to currently support SVG natively (Firefox 1.1 will support a subset of SVG Full 1.1 but Fx 1.1 will likely be released in August). Opera has a great SVG Tiny implementation, but I'm posting my wish-list of things to fix for that implementation. Read the rest of this entry ...

§112 · July 7, 2005 · Opera, SVG, Technology, Web · 2 comments ·

SVG Kickstart #2 Published

I wrote a tutorial that delves into how to do shapes, colours and paths in SVG, it is in Draft state here. The tutorial has been tested on Opera 8, Firefox 1.1 (Alpha) and Internet Explorer + Adobe SVG Viewer. Please give it a read and send me comments.

§116 · July 6, 2005 · Firefox, Opera, Software, SVG, Technology, Web, XML · Comments Off on SVG Kickstart #2 Published ·

Opera 8: SVG Tiny Test Results

Spurred on by Rob reporting Firefox 1.1 Alpha test results on the SVG test suite, I decided to do the same for Opera 8. Opera only claims to support SVG Tiny, so my tests were restricted to the SVG Tiny suite. I ended up being pleasantly surprised. Read the rest of this entry ...

§109 · June 21, 2005 · Opera, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · 1 comment ·

Anal Retentive Fruits

I mentioned before how I was cissifying my site. Well, I spent about an hour or so updating the rest of my site to be fully XHTML and CSS compliant by using the W3C validator tools (XHTML Validator and CSS Validator).

Sure, web standards are nice, but should it REALLY matter if I have a list element inside a paragraph element or if my form elements are not wrapped inside a paragraph? I guess my point is: after making sure that my site is compliant to the latest web standards out there, where are the fruits of my anal retentive labor? There's not one user-discernable difference as far as I could tell.

On the other hand, after spending about 20 minutes debugging the way Opera was rendering my fancy new SVG buttons, I figured out why their browser was having a problem, patched my code and posted the bug in their forums. Now that's what I call a worthwhile effort.

§103 · June 9, 2005 · Opera, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on Anal Retentive Fruits ·

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