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Opera CEO on Devices, Linux, and Web 2.0

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the climbing-the-ladder dept.

An anonymous reader writes "LinuxDevices has an interview with Jon S. von Tetzchner, co-founder and CEO of Opera Software, on the growing importance of device computing, Linux in the device space, browsers as an interface platform for Linux devices, and how future WHAT standards like WebForms 2.0 and Canvas will make the Web more usable on mobile computing devices of tomorrow."

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  1. Re:Opera by mac123 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Opera Mini is running fine on my Treo 650...I grabbed the java files from here

    Don't believe the claims that it won't work on t650 from Verizon...it works fine.

  2. Re:Question by TubeSteak · · Score: 2, Informative
    Actually, the answer was sortof at the end of TFA
    Q25. In a quantitative sense, how significant are embedded and mobile to Opera from a business perspective at this point?

    A25. We've been [deriving] two thirds from embedded and mobile, and one third from desktop.

    Q26. Of revenue?

    A26b. Yes.

    Q26c. What about profit?

    A26c. We haven't been providing profit data from the different sections. The way we see it, they're intertwined. To be able to make a good embedded browser, it needs to be a good desktop browser.
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  3. Re:WHAT is Ajax...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative
    why is a calendar component considered important enough to make a requirement?
    What's your alternative - table tags? ;)

    It's a question of semantics and structure. Because the browser knows it's a calendar rather than a table means the browser can provide a better interface. Obviously there are simple things like "how do I select multiple days" and "Can I upload .ics files to this calendar?" but there's also integration possibilities. Opera has browser / email / appointments -- so what if you could right-click a web calendar and have it added to your appointments (the current download file way isn't quite as integrated as it could be). You could even have existing appointments overlayed on web calendars so you knew you were planning to do something that day already.

    Because you're telling the browser your intentions more clearly (rather than just saying "table!") it opens it up for programmers to improvise and create.

  4. WebForms 2.0? by Dasch · · Score: 2, Informative

    WebForms is a fundamentally flawed specification. The data model and the presentation are combined, making it pretty inflexible. I've been playing around with XForms for a some time now, and while it's definitely very different, it's much more powerful than WebForms can ever be.

  5. Re:Question by rm69990 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Opera has a partnership with Google, so everytime you do a Google search from the Opera toolbar, Google pays Opera. This is where the money for the desktop version is coming from.

  6. What about Dashboard? by Kelson · · Score: 2, Informative

    its the first time the graphical web is begin used as more than a browser page.

    Umm... what about Dashboard widgets in Mac OS X tiger? They also are built out of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (in that case, using Safari's WebKit rather than Opera's engine). In fact, the main differences seem to be that they use a different config file and the zipped bundles use a different structure.

    There's been some discussion on the Opera forums as to compatibility, and last I looked the running theory was that it should be really simple to convert most widgets between Dashboard format and Opera format.

    What is new is that this is (AFAIK) the first platform of its type that works on Windows, Mac OS and Linux. Dashboard is Mac-only, Konfabulator is Windows/Mac (and I beleive it's possible to write Windows-only or Mac-only Konfabulator -- excuse me, Yahoo Widgets). But you can write an Opera widget and run it on Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, etc. Add in the fact that Opera's big in the mobile market, and you've got a very wide non-web platform availble using web technologies.

  7. Opera NOT promoting software patents by hkmwbz · · Score: 3, Informative
    "So Opera (we) clearly side with the pro-patent lobby."
    Um no, if you actually bother to read it, you will see that the first round was won by those opposing software patents, and the second round was also won by those opposing software patents. Therefore, "we" are those opposting software patents.

    Indeed, you can read more about Opera Software's position on software patents. Opera is against software patents.

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