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Remote debugging with Opera Dragonfly
By David Storey · Thursday, July 17, 2008 2
In this article David Storey introduces the remote debugging feature of Opera Dragonfly - Opera’s new developer tools. You'll learn how to set up Opera Dragonfly for remote debugging and how to connect Opera Mobile 9.5 to Opera Dragonfly, so you can debug content running directly on it. Read more…
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Opera Mobile 9.5 - the developer angle
By Chris Mills · Thursday, July 17, 2008 16
The beta 2 release of Opera Mobile 9.5 is here, giving mobile users a great new browser to surf the Web with, but what does this mean for developers? In this article Chris Mills reveals just that, looking at mobile debugging with Opera Dragonfly, cross browser development techniques, and more. Read more…
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Server-side capability detection for mobile devices part 2
By Brian Suda · Wednesday, December 12, 2007 1
Coding with web standards ensures that most devices should be able to make use of your web sites, but you can take this further, using server-side capability detection methods to maximize the experience on each device you serve your pages to, in terms of variables like location and language. In this article, Brian Suda explores some of these methods. Read more…
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Server-side capability detection for mobile devices part 1
By Brian Suda · Thursday, December 6, 2007 1
Coding with web standards ensures that all web-enabled devices should be able to make use of your web sites, but you can take this further, using server-side capability detection methods to maximize the experience on each device you serve your pages to, in terms of variables like location and language. In this article, Brian Suda explores some of these methods. This is part 1, covering HTTP headers, mobile-specific headers and browser user agent strings ; part 2, which covers some specific capability detection code techniques, will follow next week. Read more…
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Web design with Opera Mobile in mind
By Chris Mills · Thursday, November 29, 2007 43
Opera Mobile is a fully featured web browser and has pretty much the same standards support as the full Opera desktop version, but how do you ensure that your web sites will give your users a good experience on Opera Mobile as well as desktop browsers? This article shows you how. Read more…
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Opera Mini 4 is here!
By Chris Mills · Wednesday, November 7, 2007 45
Today is an exciting time here at Opera - we're very proud to announce the release of the final version of Opera Mini 4! It's packed with great new features, totally free, and will make your mobile browsing even happier than the last version - read all about it here. Read more…
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Designing and Developing mobile web sites in the real world, part 2
By Brian Suda · Wednesday, November 7, 2007 3
Part 1 of Brian's article looked at some useful theory to take on baord when developing mobile sites - what the mobile web is, what types of customer use it, and the mindset you need to get into when designing a mobile user experience. Now in part 2 he moves on to slightly more practical matters, looking at some case studies, browser sniffing, and standards support. Read more…
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Designing and Developing mobile web sites in the real world, part 1
By Brian Suda · Wednesday, November 7, 2007 12
There's lots of talk around at the moment about how to build the ideal mobile web site, either a site specifically targeted at mobile devices, or a regular site optimized so that it still provides a good user experience on mobile devices. But what does it really mean to develop such sites in the real world? In this article, Brian Suda shares some of his experiences from the front line. Read more…