http://labs.opera.com/Opera Labs: a behind-the-scenes look at the latest technology and products from Opera Software.en-ushttp://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.htmlhttp://labs.opera.com/news/2008/05/08/Opera has just released a public version of it new specification for File I/O access in widgets, along with a special build, documentation and examples. Find out more in this note.Thu, 08 May 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://labs.opera.com/news/2008/04/25/This week we released an exciting new beta release of Kestrel, the new Opera desktop browser - beta 2, to be exact.Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://dev.opera.com/articles/view/indexing-and-searching-in-opera-visite/In this article, we lift the lid off visited pages search, an exciting new Opera feature that allows you to search the full text of previously-visited pages.Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://labs.opera.com/news/2008/04/10/This article takes a look at one of Opera's latest and greatest projects - the creation of an Opera Mini version that will run on Google's Android open mobile development platform. Over the course of the article, we'll explain why we created it, how, challenges we faced, and how you can try it out for yourself. We'd like to encourage you to try it out, and give us as much feedback as you possibly can. Enjoy!Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://acid3.acidtests.org/Two days ago Opera reached a 100/100 pass rate on the Acid3 test for the first time and we published a screenshot on the Desktop team blog to back up the claim. I am pleased to announce the first public build with a 100/100 pass rate and pixel-perfect rendering! The build can be downloaded here: Windows, Linux.Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://dev.opera.com/articles/view/the-first-working-draft-of-html-5-is-her/The first working draft of HTML 5 is here! In this article, we take a look at the release and what it means for the future of the web, and provide links to some of the best in-depth resources available.Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://my.opera.com/MacDev_ed/blog/2007/11/21/svg-at-the-movies-take-twoThe triumvirate is now complete - we released a Windows version of our great new experimental Opera Kestrel HTML5 video/3D Canvas/SVG video build a couple of weeks ago along with an article about HTML5 video. Then Tim Johannson wrote an article about using the 3D canvas, which you'll find below. Now for the hatrick, Erik Dahlström has written an article explaining how to use SVG Video.Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMThttp://people.opera.com/toshiyukis/howcome-tokyo.htmFurther to our recent experimental video release of Opera, here's a video of Håkon Wium Lie presenting on "the web way" at the Web 2.0 Expo in Japan, November 16th 2007. You need the experimental video release to watch this, if you haven't got it, you'll be redirected to the slides from the same presentation. Enjoy.Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMThttp://my.opera.com/timjoh/blog/2007/11/13/taking-the-canvas-to-another-dimensionIn our last Opera Labs post, we unveiled an experimental Windows build that features support for HTML5 <video>, SVG video, and last but not least, a 3d context for <canvas>. In this article, 3d canvas implementor Tim Johansson explains how it works and how you can start to play around with it.Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMThttp://dev.opera.com/articles/view/a-call-for-video-on-the-web-opera-vid/To really make a splash on the Web, video needs an open solution that can easily be integrated into web pages without the need for proprietary plugins. The HTML 5 <video> element and Ogg Theora can provide this, and Opera is proud to announce an experimental build that supports it. So read this article, and download and play with it today.Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.w3.org/TR/mathml-for-css/Traditionally, Mathematical formulas have been hard to represent using good old fashioned CSS and HTML, but a solution does exist. First, MathML, a specialised Markup language tailored specially for dealing with Math on web pages, has been around for a while. Second, the W3C has recently created a working draft called the MathML for CSS profile which deals with displaying MathML using CSS. In this article, we will show you how you can test drive this technology early using Opera Kestrel.Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:00:00 GMThttp://my.opera.com/dstorey/blog/2007/08/27/update-on-css-support-in-kestrelWhile Kestrel is getting ready to spread its wings, we are currently busy adding new features to Core-2 and deep into the QA process. I've already mentioned the CSS3 selectors are done and dusted, but what else is new since the last report? Not forgetting about CSS2.1, we're adding support for white-space: pre-line;. This edges us ever closer to full CSS2.1 support...Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:00:00 GMThttp://my.opera.com/yngve/blog/2007/06/19/it-aint-ev-til-its-ev-all-evIn the past couple of weeks I have been sewing up most of the loose threads in Opera's support for Extended Validation (EV) certificates, and have actually started testing something that resembles the final system.Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:00:00 GMThttp://my.opera.com/yngve/blog/show.dml/1095339Here is a first look at Opera 9.5 ("Kestrel") with full support for Extended Validation (EV) certificates enabled.Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:00:00 GMThttp://my.opera.com/yngve/blog/2007/06/12/extended-validation-v1-0-approvedAs I posted earlier on Opera Labs, work has been under way to create an improved process, Extended Validation (EV), for issuing web site certificates that can give a higher degree of assurance to the user that the SSL/TLS website in question really is who it claims it is, and how to tell the browsers that this process has been used.Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:00:00 GMThttp://my.opera.com/yngve/blog/2007/04/30/10-years-of-ssl-in-operaApril 30th, 1997 (give or take a few days; remembering exact days can be hard) was the first time Opera's SSL implementation completed a full transaction.Wed, 02 May 2007 08:00:00 GMThttp://labs.opera.com/It's time to make video a first-class citizen of the web. We, the users, have video cameras in our pockets and the bandwidth to tranfer more clips and streams than we can watch. What's missing is a an easy way to integrate video into web pages, and native support for video in browsers. We, the web community, should address this by adding a video element to HTML:Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:00:00 GMThttp://labs.opera.com/The W3C recently renewed its HTML activity. Opera joined the new HTML Working Group to help shape the future of the web and so can you. The HTML Working Group allows virtually everyone to participate. A set of simple steps on how to join is outlined on the WHATWG blog: W3C restarts HTML effort. If you have any questions or want to discuss HTML with members of the Working Group you can join the public IRC channel #html-wg on irc.w3.org (port 80 or 6665). As a starting point for the new Working Group Opera, together with Mozilla and Apple, submitted the WHATWG HTML5 proposal as initial input to base future work on. We hope that it proves to be a good starting point for the future of HTML.Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:00:00 GMThttp://labs.opera.com/Here's your first look at Speed Dial, a brand new way to get to your favorite sites. Speed Dial opens in any blank tab to give you immediate access to your favorite sites. Once you've tried Speed Dial in the Beta of Opera 9.2, visit the Desktop Team blog to let us know what's on your Speed Dial. Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:00:00 GMThttp://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/704304This is a special edition of the Opera desktop version - the Opera OLPC Edition.Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMThttp://my.opera.com/dstorey/blog/show.dml/701902CSS3 development work is going full steam ahead here at Opera. In this article we reveal some of the new CSS features upcoming versions will support.Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMThttp://my.opera.com/Think/blog/2006/11/28/demo-of-next-generation-ajax-mobile-ajaxWould you like to get personalized and always updated newsfeed directly on the idle-screen of your mobile phone? How about location based traffic information or a map service similar to Google Maps? This is what Opera, Telenor and FAST set out to test in a R&D study named Aida earlier this year. The solution was tested on a large number of end users over many months and was very well received among the testers. Follow the link below and check out the video from the solution running live on a Windows Mobile phone.Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:00:00 GMThttp://labs.opera.com/news/2006/11/09/Last year it became clear that the procedures for verifying data used to issue SSL certificates (and other types of certificates) were not as uniform as might be desired. This led to a situation where information in certificates might be misleading.Thu, 09 Nov 2006 08:00:00 GMThttp://labs.opera.com/This is your chance to make Opera Mini even better and try out brand new features. During a limited time, on a first-come-first-served basis, we offer you the chance of trying out a preview of Opera Mini 3.0.Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:00:00 GMThttp://labs.opera.com/news/2006/09/01/One cool feature we added to Opera 9 is Server-Sent Events from the WHATWG Web Applications 1.0 specification. Using SSE you can push DOM events continously from your web server to the visitor's browser. This creates a lot of exciting opportunities for web application authors.Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:00:00 GMThttp://labs.opera.com/news/2006/08/01/A large number of people are looking for security problems and vulnerabilities in Opera and other applications. Some people don't like this, but I think it is actually fine. When done responsibly this can increase security for the application and is thus of great benefit to the users. However, when done irresponsibly, the activity can cause needless alarm and waste the time of the application vendors AND the end users.Wed, 02 Aug 2006 08:00:00 GMThttp://labs.opera.com/We're working full speed on porting Opera 9 to mobile phones and our internal build just passed the very advanced ACID2 test. Congratulations to our Symbian team for their hard work! See the screenshot.Mon, 29 May 2006 08:00:00 GMThttp://labs.opera.com/We released the second – and final – beta of Opera 9 today. This will be the last major milestone release before the final launch of Opera 9. The most notable change is to the widget UI. You'll notice that we've included widgets separately in the menu bar. If you click to manage widgets, your widgets open in a separate tab, similar to our transfer manager. From this tab, you can add new widgets, open downloaded widgets and remove widgets you don't want.Tue, 23 May 2006 08:00:00 GMThttp://labs.opera.com/Opera and Mozilla are actively working on providing a hardware-accelerated 3d drawing context for the canvas element, enabling authors to author high-performance 3d applications running inside the browser. Check out the screen-shots on our Web Applications Team Blog.Fri, 19 May 2006 08:00:00 GMThttp://labs.opera.com/news/2006/05/16/In Opera 9 Beta there are a lot of changes, as one expects from a major product release. Some of the changes (e.g. UI updates) are more apparent than other changes. Some of the major, but less obvious, changes have been done in Opera's SSL/TLS engine.Tue, 16 May 2006 08:00:00 GMThttp://labs.opera.com/news/2006/05/10/Opera 9 has a lot of new features to help developing content. Let's look at an example of debugging SVG.Wed, 10 May 2006 08:00:00 GMThttp://labs.opera.com/Opera 9 is built on a new version of Opera's rendering engine, featuring the some of the latest open Web standards. One of the most interesting new formats is SVG, or Scalable Vector Graphics. In Opera 9, you can not only create animated vector graphics but also let those interact with your AJAX applications. To learn more about the SVG implementation in Opera 9, visit our specification page.Mon, 08 May 2006 08:00:00 GMThttp://labs.opera.com/After a lucky 13 weekly builds on the Desktop Team blog, we are extremely proud to present the first Beta release of Opera 9. If you recall the second TP, we introduced the world to widgets in the browser, reintroduced ourselves to BitTorrent and said hello to a sophisticated content blocker. The Beta improves on all of those features with more widgets, better handling of Rich Text and several notable bug fixes. Of course BitTorrent, content blocker, site specific preferences, custom search engines all remain.Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:00:00 GMThttp://labs.opera.com/Opera has been hard at work creating a browser that acts as a platform for Web applications. Our first step in realizing this new world was taken with the launch of Opera Platform, the first mobile AJAX framework. Then we turned our attention to the desktop browser. In Opera 9 Technology Preview 2, we added support for Opera Widgets. Opera Widgets extend and expand the browser's functionality in dramatic ways.Thu, 30 Mar 2006 08:00:00 GMThttp://labs.opera.com/The Web is transforming from static content to dynamic applications. In this video we show how Web Applications can live outside the browser as Widgets running across your desktop, mobile phones and other devices. At the same time this video is an invitation to you, the developers, to join us in shaping the Web's future.Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:00:00 GMThttp://labs.opera.com/downloads/The latest technology preview of Opera 9 is available today. We've added several big features – including BitTorrent support and Widgets. Give it a shot and let us know what you think.An important note: Technical previews are just that – a preview. This isn't meant to replace your existing Opera browser, just give you an inside look into where we are going.If you want to try our current browser version, head over to Opera.com.Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:00:00 GMT