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Remote debugging of widgets on mobile devices
By Hans S. Tømmerholt · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 3
This article shows you how to debug widgets running on your mobile phone. Using Opera Dragonfly, you can view, stop and step into code in widgets running on the device from the desktop instance. Read more…
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Widget icon tutorial
By Christian Magnus Sinding-Larsen · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 14
Want your widgets looking great, regardless of the device resolution they are being run at? In this aticle, Christian Magnus Sinding-Larsen reveals some top tips on creating flawless Opera Widget icon sets that will work well on multiple device resolutions - including icon templates, creating the icons in a graphics package, and including them in your widgets when complete. Read more…
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Widget control buttons
By Hans S. Tømmerholt · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 1
Widget control buttons ensure that a consistent set of basic controls – Move, context menu, Minimize and Close – are available in all widgets in “Widget” mode. See the top-right of Figure 1 for an idea of what they look like. Read more…
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Optimizing widget graphics for mobile and devices
By Andreas Bovens · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 6
In this article we will explore a few simple techniques that will help you optimize the graphics inside your Opera widgets for mobile phones and other devices with limited resources. Read more…
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Opera Nalakuvara, customized Taiwanese browser — Part 3: Third party components and menus
By Jedi Lin · Wednesday, January 27, 2010 1
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. Read more…
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Opera Nalakuvara, customized Taiwanese browser — Part 2: Tweaking Opera default settings
By Jedi Lin · Wednesday, January 27, 2010 1
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. Read more…
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Opera Nalakuvara, a customized browser for the Taiwanese community — Part 1: planning
By Jedi Lin · Wednesday, January 27, 2010 24
Nalakuvara is a customized Opera browser, created by developer Jedi-Lin to better serve the needs of the Taiwanese web community, with custom fonts, search engine and mail providers, custom User CSS and UserJS enhancements, and more. In this article series Jedi gives you a detailed tour of how he created the project and implemented all the features. This article in particular discusses project planning, the toolset he used, how he customized the install process, and working out the files to update. Read more…
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Gridnite part 3: saving and restoring multiple spreadsheets
By Slava Vishnyakov · Thursday, January 14, 2010 3
This article is the third to look at developing Gridnite, an Opera Unite-powered multiuser collaborative spreadsheet application written by Slava Vishnyakov. In this article Slava adds further functionality to the application to allow us to save and restore multiple spreadsheets. Read more…