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  • Opera Widgets Style Guide

    By Daniel Davis · Monday, March 1, 2010 10

    This style guide gives useful suggestions for how to design your Opera Widgets, combining creative visual design with usable design. Read more…

  • Opera Widgets go mobile

    By Andreas Bovens · Thursday, February 18, 2010 4

    Over the last couple of months, we've been working hard to improve our Mobile Widgets Manager — we basically rebuilt it from scratch, using the cross-platform UI framework that is also used in Opera Mobile and Opera Mini. Read more…

  • Introduction to HTML5 video

    By Patrick H. Lauke · Thursday, February 11, 2010 29

    This article gives you an introduction to and some of its associated APIs. We look at why native video support in browsers is important, give an overview of the element's markup, and outline the most important ways in which video can be controlled via JavaScript. Read more…

  • Adding a docked mode to your widgets

    By Opera Software · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 11

    Opera Widgets are required to be run on various devices under differing UI constraints. In some cases, the UI needs to be interactive and in others only informative. To support this, Opera Widgets can be viewed in different modes, each mode giving the widget a slightly different environment to render in. Read more…

  • Mobile widget development process advice

    By Opera Software · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 4

    Generally, we recommend that you develop your widget on desktop, test your widget in the Widget Emulator, and test on the phone when you're done. Read more…

  • Cross-device development techniques for widgets

    By Opera Software · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 5

    This article looks at techniques, code examples, and tips for doing cross-device development of widgets. The techniques are grouped into the following sections: Usability, Architecture, Layout, Images and effects, Network, Client-server communication, DOM, and JavaScript. Read more…

  • Characteristics of widgets on mobile phones

    By Opera Software · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 2

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  • Opera Widgets: cross-platform applications

    By Opera Software · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 1

    The Opera Widgets runtime is available on all platforms where Opera is available. This article discusses the nature of Opera Widgets, as cross-platform applications, goes through the benefits of their implementation model, and looks at some platform variations to be aware of when creating widgets. Read more…

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