Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

3 of 66 comments (clear)

  1. WHAT is Ajax...? by TopSpin · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Simultaneously both a question and a statement!

    The WHAT working draft Web Applications 1.0 certainly looks like Ajax with its XMLHttpRequest, drag and drop and other Ajaxish stuff.

    --
    Lurking at the bottom of the gravity well, getting old
  2. My favorite quote by imess · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm kind of proud of that; if Microsoft fails, you have a rescue system with Linux and Opera.

  3. Please, it's time for a news category upgrade! by Samawi+I · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The number of Opera stories on Slashdot has now gone way beyond the point where a dedicated Opera category/icon for Slashdot is needed. Even Mozilla and Netscape each form a subcategory on Slashdot, and they could arguably go under a single one.

    The same goes for Qt, which always ends up under the KDE category, even when the story has nothing to do with KDE...