CompetitiveBrowserDevelopment/Opera-Notes

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Opera

• Web Browser: Opera
• Version: 10
• Release Date: first builds to be released in 2007
• Direction: cross-platform experience, tools providing open std dev platform
• Emphasis: css selectors
• Features:
  • cross platform experience - allow user to begin reading a web page on the desktop, then continue on a mobile phone or PDA
  • open std dev platform -
  • support more CSS3 selectors; how HTML tags behave depending on hierarchy
  • text-shadow property
  • bug fixes to standards support
  • screen reader support
  • new rendering improvements
  • works on non-traditional platforms - Nintendo DS and Wii
• Challenges:

Opera 9 is current version (9.21 for windows)