From our QA department we’ve been told that Opera Mini is the first browser not merely to pass the Acid2 test, but to surpass it. If you haven’t downloaded Opera Mini yet, you should do so now, or try the Opera Mini™ simulator.
Author: jaxroam
Akterutseilt og ved godt mot i Praha
Still in Prague. Had I blogged using Opera Mobile or Mini I would have been at the airport in time (maybe a posting on battery life on mobile devices at a later time), but as the trip was almost a stopover in Oslo before […]
A room with a preview
Quick note from a hotel reception in Prague, a couple hours before after the second preview of Opera 9 and labs.opera.com launched and a couple hours before my flight to Oslo will do the same. The preview offer all the goodies like native search […]
The end of the PC era
Since the late 1980s I have been among those predicting the end of the Personal Computer, and that end is now in sight. The PC is going the way of the typewriter, but not overnight. It took the PC about 15 years to completely […]
City Weekends
I came across the yearly survey over Norwegian vacation habits. The City Weekend is becoming a fixture, every other Norwegian do two and a half such trips on average. This is a direct consequence of low-fare airlines making direct travel cheap and convenient, and […]
The scientific value of being wrong
This post is also a part of a forum discussion. Fred Hoyle commented that it makes more sense to be unorthodox than orthodox in science. I fully agree with that. If a thousand people are looking in one direction and you are looking in […]
Newsspam: The Yahoo and Opera stories
Early in December a Yahoo story spread quickly across the web, MAN DATES GAL ON INTERNET FOR SIX MONTHS — AND IT TURNS OUT SHE’S HIS MOTHER!. Yesterday, almost three weeks later, the story was published unchecked by Dagbladet, Norway’s third largest newspaper where […]
Power plug and play
A weekend in Glasgow. Scotland is neighbouring Norway and a direct flight from Oslo (though this being Ryan Air the bus ride to their airport takes longer than the plane trip itself). The physical and cultural closeness makes it easy to forget that they […]
Watch this spacer
It was natural to start off a series on web elements with a vilified element that never made it into any web standard and never will, the spacer. Often elements are made for minute details that nobody, man or machine, are interested in. Should […]
Wannabe spotting in 21 easy points
Henry Sivonen has summarised a HOWTO Spot a Wannabe Web Standards Advocate. (Parroted from Anne’s Weblog)