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Opera Software Brings Its Browser to Mobile Phones

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the smart-idea dept.

13Echo writes "Now this is cool! Opera Software has presented a technology today that solves the problems of web pages on small screens. They have created a small-screen HTML rendering technique that slightly reformats web pages to fit within the bounds of small displays. Some screenshots can be found here along with extra details as to how they do it. A full press release can be found here. As a result, horizontal scrollbars are not needed, and it even features zooming abilities for magnifying web pages."

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  1. Opera lags the state of the art, as usual by Sneakums · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the Opera Small-Screen Rendering page:
    Instead of presenting table content in columns and rows, tables are reformatted into a one-dimensional structure that better fits smaller screens.
    Come on, lynx has been doing this for years!
  2. Re:Tired... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Porn doesn't look good on a 1X2" screen.

    Soooo...your equipment is too small then?

  3. Pinko. by Multiple+Sanchez · · Score: 2, Funny

    If my iPaq can't run a quake server on emulated PalmOS while converting my mp3s to ogg while I watch a 160x120 AVI of the matrix on my 20-minute commuter rail trip, then the terrorists have already won.

  4. Re:How do Opera do it? by larien · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can get IE for the Mac as well as Solaris. I'm not saying those versions are as good as the Windows version (especially not the Solaris one!), but they exist.

  5. And without the mistakes by Breakfast+Pants · · Score: 2, Funny

    Such as:
    "Visually impaired users can zoom out on a page to achieve legible font sizes for reading."
    Zoom out to get legible fonts? Yeah.

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  6. Re:Already been done by theduck · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's a fancy new technique called Marketing.

    But that doesn't make it any less annoying.

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  7. A quick reminder: by Dannon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Opera in phone: Good.
    Phone going off at the Opera: Bad.

    Thanks for your attention.

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  8. Great! by Suppafly · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just what we need.. another reason for people to brag about how great gesture notation and tabbed browsing are.

    I can see it now.. people spasmatically jerking their cell phones around trying to get gesture notation to work.