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Opera 10.0 Released, With Integrated Web Server Functionality

Posted by timothy on from the two-way-street dept.

sherl0k writes "Opera 10.0, dubbed Opera Unite, has been released. Built into the Web browser is a full-fledged Web server, complete with nifty little gadgets such as a 'fridge' that people can post notes onto, a chat room, a widget to stream your music library anywhere, and a built-in file-sharing mechanism. It also scores 100/100 on the Acid3 test." Readers fudreporter and TLS point to The Register's report on the new release and a 5-minute video demo, respectively. Update: 06/16 15:18 GMT by T: Roar Lauritzsen of Opera Software writes to point out that "release" isn't quite the right word here; though you can download it, version 10.0 is still in beta, and the version with Unite is a labs (experimental) release.

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  1. What? by Yvan256 · · Score: 5, Funny

    No kitchen sink?

    1. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      The sink will be available as an Opera Widget.

    2. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Anyone else seeing graphics appearing midcomment on about 1/4 of the comments?

    3. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      I'm seeing them on almost all of the comments. It's incredibly annoying. (running kubuntu9.04 firefocks3.0.11)

    4. Re:What? by ipb · · Score: 4, Informative

      I've been seeing them for about a week or so.
      Firefox 3.0.11
      Konqueror 3.5.9

      Very annoying

    5. Re:What? by sopssa · · Score: 5, Informative

      On every aspect the title and summary is just so wrong.

      To begin with, Opera 10 has not been released. Its in Beta.
      Opera Unite is not Opera 10, its a feature in Opera 10.
      Opera Unite is not a webserver, its a system where functionality is provided by widgets and other users can access those aswell (kinda like Google Wave)
      Opera provided some widgets to begin with, like File Sharing, Web Server, Media Player, Photo Sharing, The Lounge (chat), Fridge (post-a-note wall)
      All of these can be separately enabled or disabled.
      Atleast in the Opera 10 Beta, Unite and all the widgets were disabled by default.
      It makes direct connections when possible, and if user is behind NAT Opera proxy servers will route it (afaik)

      Its a great thing for an user who doesn't care or know how to install webservers, dont want to upload their private photos to imageshack or the like or chat via servers. The thing here is that instead of using websites, you can connect to your friends directly. Widgets provide the functionality then (theres API developers can use to make them)

      Hopefully that clarifies some about that incredibly bad summary.

  2. Excellent! by shadow349 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure all seven Opera users will be thrilled.

    1. Re:Excellent! by sopssa · · Score: 4, Informative

      âoeCurrently, most of us contribute content to the Web (for example by putting our personal information on social networking sites, uploading photos to Flickr, or maybe publishing blog posts), but we donâ(TM)t contribute to its fabric â" the underlying infrastructure that defines the online landscape that we inhabit.

      Our computers are only dumb terminals connected to other computers (meaning servers) owned by other people â" such as large corporations â" who we depend upon to host our words, thoughts, and images. We depend on them to do it well and with our best interests at heart. We place our trust in these third parties, and we hope for the best, but as long as our own computers are not first class citizens on the Web, we are merely tenants, and hosting companies are the landlords of the Internet.â

      This is more of a way for people to communicate, share and do stuff together rather than using websites. You know, P2P. It has developer API so new stuff can be added, opera's own stuff currently include webserver, chat room, note board, streaming and file sharing.

      Its quite nice system actually, and you dont need to share your stuff to all of the internet or upload your photos to facebook or similar.

    2. Re:Excellent! by Kamokazi · · Score: 5, Informative

      I would be, if it was actually Opera 10 being released today. However that is not the case. They released the Alpha of their new Unite collaboration thingamajig which requires the current BETA of Opera 10. The current version is still 9.64, with 9.7 in beta testing, so it will be some time before 10 comes out.

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  3. Alpha! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Somewhere in the summary you REALLY should mention this is an ALPHA release, not a final release.

    Thanks.

  4. Re:Acid 3 test by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Pretend for a second that I don't know anything about Acid 3. Pretend I'm just a regular Joe-sixpack web user.

    Why should I care that my browser scored 100/100 on the Acid 3 test?

    I would pitch Acid 3 compliance in this manner: This web browser is 100% compliant with the proper web rendering standards. The more compliant your web browser is, the less likely your web browser will break. You can take that to the bank. You spend less time with a broken browser, and more time enjoying a cold one.

  5. using it now. Very, very impressed. by Hanzie · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm posting this from Opera 10. It seems quite different from the last version. Slashdot looks very, very good. To enable the file sharing, you have to click the "+" tab at the bottom and explicitly enable the web serving goodness. It includes a media player, to share your music collection around. I think we might have a game changer here. hanzie.

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    1. Re:using it now. Very, very impressed. by nkh · · Score: 4, Informative

      I tried it and love it! It has a few "widgets" installed by default (which may be removed in the final version): file, note, and photo sharing, a media player, a simple chat, and a web server that you point to a specific folder on your disk. Of course more functionality will come with the SDK (and there's also a template library to write code faster)

    2. Re:using it now. Very, very impressed. by Bluesman · · Score: 4, Funny

      Me too. Although I couldn't say /. looks very, very good :-(

      But at least you can say it's rendered properly.

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  6. Sweet Zombie Exploit Jesus by Rogerborg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's a botnet writer's wet dream; a victim that will host your exploit once you've pwned it.

    We can only hope that it's secure, or else the two dozen people who actually use Opera will be very unpopular indeed, at least until the RIAA has then rounded up for sharing their tunes with (world + dog).

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  7. 10.0 still beta and Unite is alpha by ablaze · · Score: 4, Informative

    Looks great, except that 10.0 isn't released yet, and Opera Unite is a "labs build", aka alpha release.

  8. Re:Acid 3 test by bigpresh · · Score: 5, Funny

    You spend less time with a broken browser, and more time enjoying a cold one.

    Dude, necrophilia is wrong.

  9. Re:Mac version by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unfortunately, it still looks completely out of place.

    It's highly functional. Of course it looks out of place on a Mac.

  10. So many features... by Tarlus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did they just slap a GUI on Emacs?

    *Runs away*

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  11. I wrote this 9 years ago! by ChronoFish · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The "Fishbowl" browser had an integrated web server.

    http://web.archive.org/web/20010502014727/chronofish.com/FishBowl/

    -CF

  12. Re:bloat by Ilgaz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Opera PPC OS X is just 12 MB, the actual executable is way below it.

    In fact, if you dig deeper, you figure the amazing fact. Core renderer is below 1 MB. Yes, 1 MB of ultra portable pure C is the "Opera". Rest is done via the functionality it already has. E.g. lsof when you use the "bulky" IRC function of Opera, you will see the thing you see as "IRC" is actually a web page along with CSS!

    Same with the "Web server". It must be amazingly tiny, even less than the rendering engine since it is clear that they are heading to mobile with this.

    Opera and Firefox has different development models, concepts and even targets. Ask Firefox developers if they will remove 80% of code just because they want the exact same binary to run on my horribly outdated, OS dead UIQ3 Sony Ericsson P1i. That is what Opera does.

    With Google, Google Backed Mozilla, MS Backed IE, Apple backed Webkit, I really don't think Opera dreams about "World Domination!". Look at these silly people, they want to boycott Opera because MS backed blogs called for it. Why? EU judicial system investigates MS (did you see IE icon's size on Win 7?) and MS pulled one of "I am taking my toys and going home" tricks again by not including IE in EU Windows. So, it is all Opera's fault now (as they can't mess with Google/Firefox) and they want to boycott Opera (as if they ever used!).

    I mean, as ordinary user, I can see the stupidity but they can't? I bet they do and they never dreamed of being some 20-30% market share browser because of these facts which aren't really too technical.