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Open standards will be the web's way forward
BROWSER MAKER Opera told assorted hacks that it thinks that the way that the web will advance will be through open standards.
Opera has got its browser onto the Android operating system. "Opera Mobile for Android is the real McCoy. It's the full web browser on the phone," Opera chief development officer Christen Krogh said at a press conference in Oslo, Norway.
The company said that the web browser should arrive on the Android Market within 30 days, possibly by the end of October.
Lars Boilesen, Opera's CEO said that for the web to work it needs to be available everywhere, irrespective of platform, device and geography.
He was showing off a new extension feature in the upcoming Opera 11 alpha, which will be made available soon here. With extensions coming to Opera 11, he said that it's time to consider making the technology a standard for all browsers.
Opera 11 extensions will use the same collection of web page technologies - HTML for page contents, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for formatting, Javascript for processing - as extensions in Google's Chrome, Apple's Safari 5, and Mozilla's upcoming Firefox Jetpack. He said that the approach makes it easier for browsers to handle the interfaces to lightweight extensions.
Other technologies and features being introduced in the next versions of Opera Mini and Opera Mobile will include hardware acceleration and pinch to zoom.
Demos shown at the press event included Opera Mini on the Iphone and Opera Mobile on Android. µ
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To lay the blame of poor Flash performance at the feet of poorly written Actionscript code and poor optimization is naive at best. Even the best optimization can't compensate for the fact that Flash has, until only recently, been an entirely CPU-bound platform, especially when it comes to displaying its graphics to the screen. Even the most highly optimized algorithms would bring CPUs to their knees simply for the fact that Flash was designed as a lightweight active media platform, not meant for heavy lifting like other platforms.
Performance has improved somewhat with the more recent versions of Flash, but only until extremely recently has Flash become a platform that does not eat up significant CPU cycles. I can only imagine its impact on battery life of mobile devices if the plugin is not tuned well enough to take advantage of the hardware directly.
"Its funny all this talk of ditching flash, flash is still a far more capable platform than html5 etc for quite a lot of tasks."
Name one? Doesn't seem that funny.
Its funny all this talk of ditching flash, flash is still a far more capable platform than html5 etc for quite a lot of tasks.
while i do hate flash based adverts as much as the next person, the main problem with poor performance in flash is badly written Action script and poor optimisation rather than the platform itself.
think the player could do with going on a diet though, would be nice for them to release a new player deprecating certain versions of flash
Boycott Adobe then.