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The power of the Web with Opera Mini 4


After three betas we’re proud to release the shiny new Opera Mini 4

to the world.

We’ve done a lot with this new Opera Mini. For example, we rewrote the entire code for Opera Mini 4 and added lots of improvements and new features to make the browser even better.

Opera Mini 4 is based on the same rendering engine as the Opera 9.5 desktop browser. The browser still has a very small install size, less than 100k, even though we’ve added all these cool new features.

With all the time and work that we’ve put in on our end, we wouldn’t be able to bring you the world’s best mobile browser without your help and support. We owe a great amount of appreciation to all those of you who helped with our beta testing, bug reporting, and providing feedback in the Opera Mini forums and on your blogs. Thanks.

So what have we done with Opera Mini 4?

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We’ve added support for Opera Link

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in Opera Mini 4. With Opera Link, you’re able to instantly synchronize and share your bookmarks and Speed Dial with the Opera browser for your computer.

Overview mode

Opera Mini 4 includes a new rendering architecture that allows you to view webpages just like you would on your computer. When you first load a webpage, Opera Mini will show you an overview snapshot of the page; using the new mouse cursor you can instantly zoom in to the selected region of the page.

Size of text fits width of screen

Opera Mini 4 dynamically changes the size of the text on webpages to fit the width of your phone’s screen, meaning you won’t have to scroll horizontally.

Context menu

A context menu is displayed when pressing the number 1 key. From the context menu you could change the viewing modes to ‘Mobile view’, reload the page, and show webpage information. When the mouse cursor is focused on a link, the Context menu will show you the link information (i.e. where the link points to, etc.).

Mouse cursor

With the mouse cursor you could scroll to any direction on the page and more easily click on links.

Scrolling shortcuts

Pressing these number key shortcuts will help you quickly navigate around the page.

2 - Page up
8 - Page down
4 - Go to the left one column
6 - Go to the right one column
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- Zoom in and out

Create search

With this new feature, you could add any search engine of your choice to the Opera Mini start page. To add a new search engine, click on the search field, press the menu button and click on the ‘Create search’ option.

View pages in Landscape mode

By pressing the * and # shortcut keys, you could switch the page view to landscape mode.

New standards support

Support for HTML tables, CSS handheld stylesheets, and more advanced support for CSS have been added to Opera Mini.

Bi-directional support

With this new release we’ve also added support for bi-directional text, adding support for languages such as Hebrew.

Some other notable changes

Added support for small anti-aliased bitmap fonts
Simplified setup process
Improved image quality
Improved fit to width mode rendering
Simplified settings page
Added native blackberry menu
Dialogs are now displayed with round corners and alpha channel overlay windows
New and improved server side cookie handling

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  • JavaScript and AJAX support in Opera Mini 4


    Over at Dev.Opera, Chris Mills, our Developer Relationship Manager at Opera, wrote about the extent of JavaScript support in Opera Mini 4. With the explosive use of AJAX on the Web, it’s an important guide for all Web developers to read.

    While you’re at it, also take a look at another article on Dev.Opera, this one written by David Storey
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    , Opera’s Chief Web Opener. The article, entitled “Evolving the Internet on your phone: Designing web sites with Opera Mini 4 in mind”, gives an overview of how to optimize sites to be more usable in Opera Mini 4.

    Read:
    - JavaScript support in Opera Mini 4
    - Evolving the Internet on your phone: Designing web sites with Opera Mini 4 in mind

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  • Turnin' up the heat - II


    Sorry for the looooooong delay. It was good to see the long list of widget ideas that we got from you guys. We now have a huge list of widgets to work on. But unfortunately we got bogged down with some crucial work and we had to complete that before we could work on these widgets.

    In the next few weeks whenever we have the next Xtreme Programming week we will get the temperature soring. And hopefully by then we would also have our :chef: “secret sauce” :zip: ready that would not only enable us to churn out widgets a lot more easily, but also allow you to make your own widgets easily.Big Momma’s House trailer

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  • New look


    This blog have a new look. I changed it just for fun… :) All the CSS editing and such was made live during the last half hour, so if you watched the blog at that time you could see how it was build up and gradually changed. It’s based on a design I made for my Kilimanjaro blog some time ago.The Contract video
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