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Opera Widgets security model
By Opera Software · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 11
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Opera Widgets Preference Store
By Opera Software · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 1
The Opera Widgets Preference Store is where widgets store their settings and other data you want the widget to persist across sessions. Once data is stored in the Opera Widgets Preference Store, the user may close and reopen the widget, and the stored preferences will still be available. Read more…
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Opera Widgets and Ajax: connecting to multiple servers
By Opera Software · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 2
Scripts on Web pages cannot connect to any Web server other than the one the page was loaded from. This is known as the same-origin security policy and is a cornerstone of keeping the Web safe. Read more…
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Widget modes: docked, widget, and more
By Opera Software · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 3
On some platforms, the Opera Widgets runtime supports more than one mode for the widget to run in, for instance a mobile phone may support modes to show widgets one at a time in fullscreen mode, and to show multiple widgets, with each widget displayed in a separate slot on the screen. Read more…
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Opera Widget support notes
By Opera Software · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 3
This article describes which parts of the features of Opera Widgets are supported on different devices. Note that this document is not meant to be a complete set of comparisons. Different devices use different versions of the Opera browser, although most of the functionality is the same across all of them. Read more…
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Opera Widgets specification 1.0, fourth edition
By Chris Mills · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 76
This document describes Opera Widgets 1.0, fourth edition, and covers all aspects of Opera Widgets, including the packaging format, the configuration file - config.xml - and scripting interfaces for working with widgets. This document represents the required solutions for creating and running interoperable Opera Widgets across target platforms, both on devices and desktop. Read more…
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The Opera Widgets Manager application
By Hans S. Tømmerholt · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 3
In this articles Hans explains what the Opera Widgets manager does, why it is great for Opera Mobile users and developers and how to install the Windows Mobile and S60 platform versions. Read more…
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The Opera Widgets runtime for Desktop
By Remigiusz Bondarowicz · Tuesday, February 9, 2010 5
Opera Widgets are made using Web standards, the same technology used to build Web pages. This ensures that they work on all platforms and operating systems, as well as providing developers with a much shorter and simpler development cycle for creating desktop applications. Read more…