Planet Opera
08.02.2010
FavBrowser.com
Weekly Browsers Recap, February 8th
- FBI’s Most Wanted: Your Browsing Activity
- The iPhone is the new Internet Explorer 6, says mobile developer
- IE8 is now the world’s top browser, says NetApps, as XP falls
- Mozilla to remove legacy Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger code in Firefox
- Fake Firefox Update Pages Push Adware
- Firefox 3.6 tips and tweaks
- Accelerate Firefox 3.6 page scrolling
- Google Translate Integrated In Google Chrome 5
- Google Might Advertise Chrome, Nexus One or Google Apps at Super Bowl
- Finally! “Find in Page” Comes to Mobile Safari
- Huawei to preinstall Opera Mobile 10 on its phones for China
- Bolt Browser gets Updated to Version 1.6 – Brings New Features
Thanks to Demir, mabdul and Sebastian for links.
Lawrence Eng
Article link: "The diminishing value of friend recommendations online"
I just wanted to point Opera Otaku readers to a recent entry I posted on my other blog, lainspotting:The diminishing value of friend recommendations online
read moreWith an overabundance of people who believe (and are being led to believe by social media marketers) that their personal opinions matter greatly to everyone around them, it's no surprise that the signal-to-noise ratio surrounding personal recommendations has gotten lower...
When I think about Opera Unite, I envision much more intimate and trustworthy connections, as opposed to the large and often impersonal friend lists found on social networking sites. The latter has its place, but I prefer the former for product recommendations.
date: 08.02.2010, 18:25, author: lawrence.eng@opera.com (Lawrence Eng)
Opera Desktop Team
Java is back
Opera is now using the Java Plug-in instead of native Java.
If you encounter reproducible crashers, please report a bug:
https://bugs.opera.com/wizard/
Please remember to enter as much information as possible about the crash in the crashlog dialog if you encounter a crash.
WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.
Downloads
Opera Press Releases
Huawei selects Opera Mobile 10 as China enters 3G era
Opera Software today announced that Huawei, the China-based leading global telecommunications solutions provider, will preinstall Opera Mobile 10 on a range of mobile handsets. Huawei has long focused on creating value for its customers, and, with Opera Mobile the company can deploy a fast and feature-complete Web experience on multiple mobile platforms.07.02.2010
Opera Desktop Team
Approaching 10.50 beta for Windows
Please focus mostly on potential showstoppers. If there are any bugs that you believe are important enough to block a beta release, let us know. Take a look at the list of known issues first, though.
There likely will be Mac and Unix snapshots next week, but right now we're working overtime to get Windows ready for beta. Please keep your comments relevant to the Windows version this time around.
WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.
Downloads
05.02.2010
Ars Technica
Nuanti brings HTML5 and Ogg Theora video to Silverlight
Nuanti, a company that develops Web browsing technologies, has produced a high-performance Ogg Theora decoder for Microsoft's Silverlight browser plugin. Nuanti's Highgate Media Suite will enable support for standards-based HTML5 video streaming with Theora in browsers that have Silverlight. It works entirely without requiring the users to install any additional software.
According to Nuanti developer Alp Toker, the company plans to open the source code in order to enable broader adoption of open and unencumbered video technology on the Web. He revealed some details about the project in a recent blog post.
"We'll be releasing a high-performance decoder for Theora video/Ogg Vorbis audio streams that plugs into the Silverlight 3 streaming media abstraction, as well as a reference front-end player interface and JavaScript bridge layer providing basic compatibility with standard HTML5 media tags, adding support for the standard to Internet Explorer and extending the capabilities of WebKit-based browsers like Safari and Epiphany," he wrote. "We're going open source with this! Over the last few years we found that our main business of developing mobile/custom web browser technology is getting more difficult with the demand for proprietary and patent-encumbered formats on the web which we simply can't support. Perhaps a quarter of our developer time last year was spent trying to hack around bugs in the Adobe Flash player product, for example. So part of the strategy has been to encourage open formats, which means getting it in the hands of as many people as possible."
Although browser vendors, including Microsoft, have acknowledged the value of the HTML5 video tag, they have not been able to build a consensus around any individual codec. Opera and Mozilla have backed Ogg Theora, a codec that is thought to be unencumbered by patents, but Apple and Google have backed the h264 codec, which cannot be used royalty-free. Microsoft has not yet implemented support for the video tag in Internet Explorer. Nuanti's framework could help boost Theora adoption and will enable Internet Explorer users to consumer HTML5 video content.
date: 05.02.2010, 19:51, author: segphault@arstechnica.com (Ryan Paul)
Opera Community News
Member of the Week
Meet a 48 years old Swedish nurse who is "lost and found" in Norway. :lol:
With her cool dogs and siamese cats, she has a passion for gardening, photography, animals and true Norwegian nature! All in all, she lives a wonderful life. :)
Her blog is an oasis of wonderful posts and cool pictures, like this one:
We highly recommend you check out AgnetaM's blog - this week's member of the week! :cheers:
Opera Desktop Team
Skin fixes, Unite, and then some
We also have a new feature for you.
WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.
Downloads
- Windows MSI / Windows Classic
- Mac (Intel) OS 10.5 or later
- UNIX
04.02.2010
Dev.Opera
SVG or Canvas? Сhoosing between the two
In this article Mihai Sucan explores the differences between SVG and Canvas and presents a few examples to help you decide which one is best for the functionality you are trying to implement.03.02.2010
FavBrowser.com
Chrome Grabs 5% Market Share as Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera Share Goes Down
Microsoft Internet Explorer lost yet another chunk of market share, and went down from 62.69% to 62.12% (0.57 point decrease).
For a third time in a row, Mozilla Firefox lost more market share, as it fell from 24.61% to 24.43% (0.18 point decrease).
Yet another huge gain for Chrome web browser; moving up, from 4.63% to 5.22%, making it a 0.59 point increase.
Slowly but surely, Safari increased its market share by 0.07 point, up from 4.46% to 4.53%
While we are waiting for Opera 10.50 Final release, this browser share went down from 2.40% to 2.38% (0.02 point decrease).
No stopping for Opera Mini, another month, and another gain; moving up from 0.53% to 0.59% (0.06 point increase).
Here is a graph by NetApplications:
Opera Developer Network
Developing for Opera Unite
How are we doing?
Yusef is used by developers to build their Opera Unite application. It is essentially a collection of libraries to help speed up application development.
Since the launch of Yusef in October 2009, we have made several changes to this framework. Let's take a look at two of them.
libraryLoader.js
libraryLoader.js allows us to invoke libraries. With it, we can easily invoke the libraries in an Opera Unite application and choose the Yusef plugin using the Libraries.setTail function.
<script src="libraries/libraryLoader/librariesLoader.js"></script>
<script>
Libraries.setTail( 'yusef.translation', 'yusef.ui', 'yusef.acl' );
Libraries.load();
</script>
Previously, we had to invoke the libraries manually.
getData()
Secondly, we also have a function call getData(), which is a wrapper to return plugin and application data. We can get a return of sessionId, sessionId, serviceName, servicePathHash, hostName, username, deviceName, isHomeApp, requestSection, requestPath, isLocal, isOwner and many more.
var data = Yusef.getData(connection);
var username = data.username; // Gets the username of the person if user is logged in
var isOwner = data.visitor.isOwner; // Tells us if the person is the owner of the application
What's next?
Looking forward, we would love to see more Opera Unite applications. If you want to win prizes while building a great application, you might want to check out our Opera Unite Weekly Application challenge.
For more on Yusef, check out Shwetank Dixit's Rapid application development using the Opera Unite Yusef library or the original article about Yusef - Opera Unite Server Framework.
Opera Press Releases
Connect to the world from your car
Opera Software today released a comprehensive report on bringing the Web to in-vehicle computer systems, entitled "Web on wheels". In this study, Opera takes a look at its partnership with Ford Motor Company to bring in-dash Web browsing to Ford trucks and vans. While Ford is the company's first browser-to-car deployment, Opera predicts a growing need for remote access to the office while on-the-road.Opera browser tops the charts in Ukraine according to gemiusRanking
Between November 2009 and January 2010, Opera surged ahead as Ukraine's browser leader, in terms of number of Web pages viewed. Opera users view more than 35 percent of all Web pages in Ukraine, according to the gemiusRanking report made by the Gemius Company. The full report is available at: http://ranking.com.ua/en/rankings/web-browsers-groups.html.01.02.2010
FavBrowser.com
Weekly Browsers Recap, February 1st
- UK government pledges support for MS Internet Explorer
- Browser Speed Tests: Firefox 3.6, Chrome 4, Opera 10.5, and Extensions
- Analysis of HTML5 Canvas Javascript performance in various browsers
- The Snoopy Google Toolbar
- Enable the Tab Preview Menu Button in Firefox 3.6
- Firefox: People in Germany Are Switching Browsers
- No matter what Apple says, you can’t get a rich web experience without Flash
- How to shorten URLs directly in Opera
- Opera Mini Server Upgrade to 4.15.2444
- Clickjacking problem in browsers persists
- Weave 1.0 now available for download
Thansk to Gala and mabdul for links.
Bridge the World
My Bridge brings me to Wroclaw
Over the Odra,
fibers of steel, stone and iron crossed together
create a path for human and cars.
Wroclaw is a city with a long history.
Over the centuries it has been part of Poland, Bohemia,
Austria, Prussia, and Germany.
The German past is clear from its architecture,
from the impressive buildings that characterize the center of the city.
Wroclaw is the city where I finally arrived
walking on my "Bridge".
It was in November, 17th of November,
cold air and snow welcomed me in Poland.
I didn't have any idea before coming here,
I didn't want to have any idea about Poland.
I tried to be open, to watch, listen, breath,
slowly trying to understand this land.
I've been trying to catch the soul of this people,
that will host me for 6 months.
But it's still difficult for me to penetrate its shell.
Now the snow is still here,
it has been a cold winter allover the Europe,
and also here polar cold didn't miss the chance to say "hello".
But the weather is improving,
so it's time to "explore" a bit more the surroundings.
I'll keep you posted.
Opera Community News
Winter Photo Contest Winners
Earlier this year, we kicked off the Winter Photo Contest, looking for the best winter photos. We were taken by surprise by the amount of submissions, so we'd like to thank everyone for submitting amazing winter shots! :cheers:
It wasn't easy narrowing the submissions down to one winner in each category, but we believe the winning entries have all the elements we were looking for. :)
We don't want any of our honorable mentions to leave empty handed, so we're giving away an Opera goodie bag as a token of our appreciation for their great skills in photography. :yes:
Without further ado, here are the winter photo contest winners!
Best photo:
WinnerWinter shot from a winter day in Kalingrad, Russia.
Honorable mentions:
2Cherries? On a tree? During winter? We're intrigued...
3Fantastic cold blue scenery.
4You don't get more melancholy than this. Even for a tree.
5Look up.
6The fountain is starting to struggle at zero below temperatures... Nice shot by musickna!
7Cross country skiing in white wintery scenery!
8Like something from the '70s, this shot is a favorite.
9Winter and Opera red. You don't need much more than that!
10Hooray! This snowman sure is happy about the snow. :-)
11Awesome picture from the Palmerston Park in Dublin, Ireland.
12Waiting for the train in Urasa-Niigata, Japan.
13Snow huts. We hope it's warm on the inside.
14A frozen lake. Or maybe an early sign of spring?
15You don't want your car to be stranded on this lonely road!
16Early morning winter landscape. Great shot!
We were also looking for the best photo manipulation. Even though there were not as many submissions in this category, the quality was really high. :)
Best photo manipulation:
WinnerFreezing cold.
Honorable mentions:
2Roof view with an edge.
3X marks the spot.
4Divine feeling.
5Great pastel color pallette.
Opera Desktop Team
New snapshot
As you have noticed we are fixing tons of bugs, so now a new build for you guys to test.
One new thing to notice is the new zoom control (only on win yet, but will come on other platforms soon) :)
Don't forget to report bugs in the bug wizard.. Look out for regressions since 10.1 those are highest priority!
Highlights
- Facebook is working again
- A new view button to the right on the status bar adds a zoom slider (Windows-only for now)
- Work on tab management (MDI)
- Skin fixes, such as a glow on the personal bar to make the text readable (Windows 7/Vista)
- Stability fixes
WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.
Downloads
- Windows MSI / Windows Classic
- Mac (Intel) OS 10.5 or later
- UNIX
Erik Dahlström
How to get the svg elements intersected by a given rectangle
Your browser doesn't support SVG or this feed was mangled to remove all 'object' elements. You may see the post in its original form at my.opera.com/macdev_ed. You can download a browser that supports SVG here. Yet another sandbox svg! This time we're going to list all the graphic elements that are intersected by a one-pixel rectangle positioned at the current mousepointer location.
Below is an example of a function that returns the list of elements under the broomsti^Wmousecursor by using the SVG DOM method getIntersectionList. Pass in a MouseEvent object from a mouse event handler to get a static NodeList object back.
function getInteresectedElements(evt)
{
var rpos = svgroot.createSVGRect();
rpos.x = evt.clientX;
rpos.y = evt.clientY;
rpos.width = rpos.height = 1;
return root.getIntersectionList(rpos, null);
}
Here's an modified variant of the above running in the browser. Hovering the graphic will show the id's of the currently intersected elements. Note that to work this script requires that the SVG 1.1 DOM method getIntersectionList is implemented, which at the time of writing is not the case in Firefox or Safari.
Your browser or RSS reader does not support svg, please visit the blogpost using a modern web browser to see this image.
The script that shows the intersected elements and the current mouse position can be viewed here. To use it in another svg file just download that script and add a 'script' element to the svg file you want to use it in, like this:
... <script xlink:href="showintersectedelms.js"/> ...Tested in Opera 10.10.
31.01.2010
Lars Kleinschmidt
Adopt a skin
[If you don't want to read the whole boring story jump right to the part where it's getting interesting: Adopt a skin]
As you might know I'm the author of several skins for Opera. To be exact, that's a full 34 skins I created. Most of these skins were created in the days of Opera 7 when I was still going to school, having lots of time available.
I started creating skins shortly before Opera 7 was released. Back then I tried to convince my parents to use Opera 6 but they didn't like it because they'd have to get used to a new UI. So I just copied icons from IE6 and XP and made them into an Opera skin (well, it wasn't really a skin but a buttonset, you could only change a small number of icons back then).
When Opera 7 was released shortly after it featured a completely rewritten UI (called "quick") and old skins wouldn't work anymore. The default skin wasn't that nice so I just started doing my own. I'm not sure which skin was my first, but I think it was Cocoa. I used that skin for several weeks and then, even though it was quite nice, got bored with it, and created a new one. By Opera 7.5 I had already published 30 skins, though it was really only like 15 as I always published native and non-native versions. Most of those were created because I was looking for a nice new skin for myself to use, others were requested by community members (Lightning, Minimalist).
And then there were two very special ones: DOS which I created for Eira who asked me for a skin like this and the never published Netscape 8 I created as proof of what's possible with Operas skin engine.
But for me personally the most special skin has long been Phoenity. As I mentioned before I very early published native and non-native versions of each skin, but Phoenity was the first skin to feature large (24*24px) and small (16*16px) versions of each icon and UI element. This enabled users to customize their Opera even more than before. I then tried to copy that approach to other skins, but as I now had to create two times as many icons it meant even more work.
As time was going other stuff became more important and I couldn't keep up with updating most of my skins. Several huge UI changes in Opera didn't really help making maintaining these skins an easy task either. This leads to the situation where we are today: Most of my skins haven't been updated for several versions, even the ones I tried to keep up-to-date weren't updated after 9.5.
As Phoenity was my main skin for several years (actually it was my default skin from 7.2 till 10.5 when I switched to the standard skin) that one often was the only one always up-to-date. Nowadays I just don't have the time to maintain any of my skins anymore (which is the main reason for switching to standard skin), I've made a decision:
I'll put up all my skins for adoption!
What I wish for my skins is that someone will take over as their maintainer and offer a version updated for the latest version of Opera to the community. An "ideal" maintainer will offer them with icons in two sizes (like Phoenity) and also maintain both native and non-native versions.
I'll provide the new maintainer with all graphics I have.
As I invested a lot of time into these skins (I'd estimate there's about 500-600 hours of work in Phoenity) I'd very contented if someone would continue maintaining these skins in my spirit.
If you're interested in adopting any of my skins just send me a message.
Skins up for adoption (listing only the "main" version, not the native one)
- Phoenity
- Qute
- Cocoa
- G.A.N.T.
- BeOS
- DOS
- Netscape Modern
- Opera IBIS
- iMacOS Lars
- Lightning
- Mac IE 5
- Opera 6
- Opera 6 classic
Adopted skins:
<sentimental blah>Putting up all these skins for adoption wasn't an easy decision as a lot of memories are connected to some of them and especially Phoenity has been my "baby" for years with endless hours of fine-tuning going into it. But now I hope for them to find new parents and live long and prosper.</sentimental blah>
date: 31.01.2010, 19:59, author: address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid ()
Tamil
The Mahabharata
Sri Krishna and Arjuna on a chariot during Kurukshetra war in Mahabharata
The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of India, the other being the Ramayana.
Originally posted by ayayay1rancho:
I was pleasantly surprised by the read. The Mahabharata is a very interesting read.
Many of the characters had individual plots and agendas toward one goal. There were many personal conflicts, and subplots that led to many twist in this epic tale. I was kept spellbound by the next conflict between the good & bad of each family. The battle between two families to gain possessions and land on the Ganges & Juma Rivers to gain control.
Over all this epic had many plots and story lines but they were all leading to one central plot and story. Good vs Evil this epic was delightfully colorful as well as dark. In the end Good prevails but with many sacrifices. If you get a chance to read this it will be well worth it.
Download Mahabharata (PDF, 1.7 MB) and read.
date: 31.01.2010, 15:10, author: address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Tamil)
30.01.2010
Opera Desktop Team
Accelerated process
Return of the penguin and Widgets for Desktop
This snapshot contains a new core update with a large number of fixes for regressions. Many features in 10.50 are more stable or work again like in 10.10. Widgets will also run as standalone applications again, as previewed in 10.20 alpha. And finally, Linux builds are back!
Other highlights:
- Upgraded Carakan engine
- Search box enhancements
- Bookmark fixes
- Improved stability
- Restructuring of the Opera menu
- Return of UNIX builds
29.01.2010
Rowan Mulder
Apple iPad world changing?
With the announcement made by Steve Jobs and the rest of the Apple crew it seems that the entire web was hyped or anti-hyped about the device. Of course it wasn't a surprise anymore that it would be a tablet. But the price and features make it a worthy opponent to the current Netbook market.
Starting at $499 for the 16 GB WiFi version up to $829 for the 32 GB WiFi+3G version, Apple wants to pretty much cover anyone. Whether teen, tween, or any other generation, the device may apply to you. For each their own, and such is the iPad, a general purpose device that Apple hopes to fill the gap between iPhone (smartphone) and Mac (notebook).
Looking at the device imminently reminds you of an iPhone or iPod touch XL, but the heavily customized iPhone OS, say iPad OS, in conjunction with the release of iWorks and iBooks makes it a new experience. Simply put, you might actually be able to use the iPad to write long e-mails, extensive browsing and reading eBooks. However being an almost a future device from either Mass Effect or Star Trek there is so much more potential. My guess is that the iPad will certainly sell well, but besides our simple needs as consumers it will also extend itself as a tool for medical care.
Imagine a doctor next to your bed reading your status chart (which shows a lot more info than a sheet), and updating it on the fly, administered in the medical care cloud. Before you know it everything will be dealt with and hopefully you can be treated, or going home soon with much less hassle. Or in the education you could see school kids not dragging heavy bags, but just an iPad with their school books in eBook (ePub) format. And of course their assignments are typed in, papers are send per e-mail and history lessons with text, video and interactive elements will never be the same.
The way we consider computers will never be the same. Let's face it. We are the technical people, sometimes referred to as nerds or geeks, or just enthusiasts. Let's not put labels on groups of people though. But what I'm getting at is that a large portion of people does not want to be bother by the computer, but wants to use it. A closed environment like the iPad is exactly what they want. No hassle, just go surf, read e-mail, or play a game. No weird errors, no difficult installs or uninstalls, no viruses, no other web browser but Safari.
Wait, hmm let me explain. I love Safari, I especially adore its engine WebKit, a love apparently shared by Google as well, hence the inclusion in Chrome. And with such a cutting edge web browser being even more widespread available, we as web standards supports cannot but be happy. But I believe that a free product, such as Safari, should be allowed to have competition on the App Store. Currently players like Opera, Mozilla and Google cannot participate because it duplicates function as a competitive product. Of course Apple does not want direct competition of it's iTunes, App Store or iBooks Library. After all that's where the money truly is. But a web browser with richer or innovative features is not something you should block.
Hopefully Apple will reconsider some App Store restrictions as they have with VoIP. As the iPad with WiFi+3G has no "phone" application (nor SMS), VoIP is a valuable alternative to have voice conversations. Similarly having the option of other web browsers on App Store should enrich the user experience.
Anyway, I'll definitely buy it. I really believe this is the device we've been waiting for to accompany the computer (PC or Mac). Over the years we'll see much heavier interaction between our computer and tablet. If you were working on a paper and want to continue re-reading what you've written you just drag it out of your screen to your tabled, and walk away with your coffee and tablet to sit outside. The Apple A4 SoC is already very powerful but new CPU/GPU evolutions is certainly taking place there with giant leaps. And once the LCD is replaced by some kind of Pixel Qi inspired technology (with superb colors, and refresh rate) you'll by all means have forgotten why this was even discussed at all. As long as Apple keeps the device open for alternatives, I have no problem seeing them as one of the major players.
date: 29.01.2010, 21:17, author: Alastor
Mozilla Weave 1.0 released
The Mozilla Labs have released the final version of Mozilla Weave, the Firefox and Fennec extension to synchronize user data amongst all your Firefox powered devices.
Of course alternatives like Xmarks (formely Foxmarks) already existed for a long time, Weave is more than just bookmarks synchronization (although not really cross browser). Mozilla Weave is all about user data in the cloud, meaning your bookmarks, preferences, passwords, history and tabs. The beauty of it is that Mozilla Labs both offers the extension for clients to use with Mozilla's servers, as well as the server portion to host it yourself (for you, family and friends for instance). Of course syncing your passwords sounds scary, but Mozilla Weave uses encryption to make sure all your personal data is safe.
You can download Mozilla Weave from the add-ons page; in the future expect even more elaborate synchronization with the cloud, such as your installed add-ons (yay!) and a possible inclusion in future Firefox releases. Mozilla Weave is a recommended download for Firefox users, as it transcends both Chrome's bookmarks sync as well as Opera Link in form and function and keeps your data safe.
Opera Mini
Server Upgrade to 4.15.2444
- better support for sms:, smsto:, mmsto: and mailto:
- improved reliability of synchronization using Opera Link
- many patches improving site compatibility
- fix for an issue related to progressive loading
- better support for Mini 5's download manager
- fix for some "clicking just reloads page" problems
- fix for unicode problems in regular expressions
Unfortunately, server-side support for password auto-completion had to be temporarily disabled.
date: 29.01.2010, 16:00, author: Gerald Senarclens de Grancy
Opera Community News
Member of the Week
This week we highlight a true Opera fan. He started a My Opera blog to highlight Opera skins he was making, and a year after he's still going strong! :love:
His primary skin Z1-TEN went final a while back, but his experimental skin, the Z1-Glass skin might be what you recognize him for! :yes:
We can't wait to see what's next from Z1-AV69, this week's member of the week! :cheers:
27.01.2010
Opera Developer Network
Nalakuvara - a user customized Opera Desktop package
A great feature of Opera Desktop is customization. Through the many different settings, you can pimp your surf. Some users have gone to great lengths configuring Opera as a defacto browser for residents of their country, or speakers of their language. Today we introduce one of them.
Jedi Lin from Taiwan has written a 4-part article about his experience of building a customized Opera desktop package. The articles take you all the way from the planning stage, through coding and configuration, up to documentation and community planning.
The first article is the planning of Opera Nalakuvara - a customized package for Taiwan users. In this article, the author discusses subtle differences from the norm in the preferences of Taiwanese users, and shows changes he made to better serve them. For example, he changed the default UI font from SimSun (better suited for the Simplified Chinese used in Mainland China) to MingLiu, which looks better when used for the Traditional Chinese spoken in Taiwan.
The second article is about tweaking Opera's default settings, for example opera:config and search engine and mail settings.
The third article revolves around the third party components and menus of Nalakuvara. This includes configuring User CSS, User JavaScript and Java applets. One interesting feature is the addition of support for telnet protocols ssh:// and telnet:// using the ZTerm Applet.
Packaging, testing, documentation and community support are discussed in the fourth and final article. The author discusses how he tested different packages on different platforms using virtual machines, and how he dealt with user feedback and building a community around his custom Opera.
There are currently ten packages available for various systems including Windows, Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, and generic Linux), FreeBSD and Mac OS X. For more information, you might want to visit the Nalakuvara project page, or even try out Nalakuvara if you read Chinese.
Dev.Opera
Opera Nalakuvara, customized Taiwanese browser — Part 3: Third party components and menus
Jedi-Lin's third article goes into detail about the third party additions he made to Opera during the creation of Nalakuvara, including User CSS, UserJS, Java applets and plugins.date: 27.01.2010, 11:37, author: Jedi Lin
Opera Nalakuvara, customized Taiwanese browser — Part 4: Deployment, documentation, testing
In the fourth and final part of the Nalakuvara series, Jedi-Lin shows you how Nalakuvara was packaged and deployed and talks about creating useful documentation, testing, and dealing with community feedback effectively.date: 27.01.2010, 11:36, author: Jedi Lin
Opera Nalakuvara, customized Taiwanese browser — Part 2: Tweaking Opera default settings
In the second part of the Nalakuvara article series, Jedi-Lin details all of the customizations he made to the Opera settings such as mail providers, search engines and bookmarks.date: 27.01.2010, 11:36, author: Jedi Lin
