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WordPress goes mobile: responsive design comes to CMSes
By Rachel McCollin · Wednesday, February 29, 2012 187
Responsive design is quite easy when you control everything to do with the page, and you're working on a small and manageable site. But what about a sprawling CMS? In such circumstances, you'll often have to rely on plugins or extensions. Wordpress developer Rachel McCollin shares some of her wisdom on this very subject. Read more…
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Love your devices: adaptive web design with media queries, viewport and more
By Chris Mills · Thursday, November 24, 2011 16
In this article Chris Mills takes a look at techniques and technologies that we can adopt to create adaptive (or responsive) web sites, including percentage units, media queries and viewport. He also discusses some recent happenings in the area, such as considerations for display on tablet browsers, object-fit, and the @viewport CSS rule. Read more…
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Opera Reader: a new way to read the Web!
By Chris Mills · Wednesday, October 19, 2011 13
In this article, we'd like to present Opera Reader, a new technology that builds on top of CSS to allow us to split content into pages that can be "turned" in a natural manner through gestures rather than point and click, control the positioning/floating of figures in multi-column layouts more precisely and provide a consistent navigation system for such content that is independent of your documents. Read more…
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Playing with HTML5 video & getUserMedia support
By Daniel Davis · Wednesday, October 19, 2011 11
Building on the famous exploding video demo by Sean Christmann, we're going to see how we can explode the video stream from a camera. With a few performance tweaks, this works surprisingly well both in desktop browser and on mobile devices. Read more…
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Opera Mobile 12 for Android Ice Cream Sandwich MIPS tablet
By Chris Mills · Monday, February 27, 2012 179
Opera is proud to unveil a labs build of Opera Mobile 12, for devices built on MIPS architecture, which has already been run successfully on top of Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Read more…
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Opera Mobile 12 for x86 architectures
By Chris Mills · Monday, February 27, 2012 53
Opera is proud to unveil a labs build of Opera Mobile 12, for devices built on Intel x86 architectures, which has already been run successfully on top of Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Read more…
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Opera Mini request headers
By Opera Software · Monday, August 29, 2011 11
Opera Mini uses a number of custom, unregistered HTTP headers. Most of these are specific to Mini, and are sent in addition to the regular HTTP headers sent by Opera on any platform. "But what are they, and what can I do with them?" I hear you cry...let's find out. Read more…
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An introduction to meta viewport and @viewport
By Andreas Bovens · Tuesday, March 22, 2011 18
Support for the viewport meta tag in Opera’s mobile products has been around for quite some time — in Opera Mobile 11, we have made our viewport implementation more robust, added support for new mechanisms to deal with different screen densities, and included an implementation of our own @viewport rule proposal. So, what better time than now to give you an introduction to the various viewport related mechanisms you can use to optimize your site for mobile. Read more…