i just want geolocation in opera mini. To many people that use my web app are using from opera mini and I have to tell them to go to the phones default browser. (Hate doing that)
I am currently working on a drag-and-drop uploading tool, and would really like to use html5 to do it. The new interfaces involved are the drag and drop (http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...) and File (http://www.w3.org/TR/file-upload/) APIs. Unfortunately, everyone except for Firefox have been slow in implementing the File interface, leaving me with a situation where the only shipping browser where standards-based code runs is Firefox 3.6 (fwiw, it works in Webkit nightly and Chrome 6 dev).
In shipping webkit (safari 5, chrome 5), File is implemented (which gives meta data about a native file) but not FileReader (which gives the actual data) (btw if someone knows of a non-standard way to get the data from the File object in shipping webkit please let me know, i just want this to work. FF had a non-standard getAsBinary() method on the File object before FileReader was implemented, for example).
Opera doesn't even have File implemented.
Again, FF is the only shipping browser that native os-to-webapp uploading drags work in a standards compliant way. Give them some credit.
Although that may be true, all of these features, with the exception of WebM, are in a RELEASED version of Firefox (3.6), and WebM is also already in the developer prerelease (nightly builds) of Firefox 4 (the next version).
I believe what he means is that opera has been the first to bring in a ton new features which were later copied by other browsers (or still even yet to) such as
tabbed browsing
mouse gestures
tab thumbnails
page zooming
opera turbo
bookmark sync
first to pass acid 3
opera unite
Spatial navigation
HTML5 datepicker (currently the only one)
and the list keeps going. These are just some of the major ones.
Opera is still the only browser that doesn't support any method of making a script load asynchronously. Firefox was the first browser to support the HTML5 async attribute for scripts.
I think I may be the exception but i have never even used the speed dial search. I only use the main url bar.
g searchstring and i search google.
y searchstring and i search yahoo.
i have also made some for other sites such as stackoverflow
s searchstring and i search SO.
so imo its not a big deal who the default is, with the exception of the main url bar default search.
One of my favorite little tweaks using opera is making Wikipedia the speed dial search engine. I've already got google up top, so having a wikipedia box every time I open a new tab pretty much accounts for 100% of my search needs.
As for bing, I don't plan on using it so... who cares?
[+] [-] pornel|16 years ago|reply
[+] [-] w-ll|16 years ago|reply
[+] [-] iamelgringo|16 years ago|reply
[+] [-] paulitex|16 years ago|reply
I am currently working on a drag-and-drop uploading tool, and would really like to use html5 to do it. The new interfaces involved are the drag and drop (http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...) and File (http://www.w3.org/TR/file-upload/) APIs. Unfortunately, everyone except for Firefox have been slow in implementing the File interface, leaving me with a situation where the only shipping browser where standards-based code runs is Firefox 3.6 (fwiw, it works in Webkit nightly and Chrome 6 dev). In shipping webkit (safari 5, chrome 5), File is implemented (which gives meta data about a native file) but not FileReader (which gives the actual data) (btw if someone knows of a non-standard way to get the data from the File object in shipping webkit please let me know, i just want this to work. FF had a non-standard getAsBinary() method on the File object before FileReader was implemented, for example).
Opera doesn't even have File implemented.
Again, FF is the only shipping browser that native os-to-webapp uploading drags work in a standards compliant way. Give them some credit.
[+] [-] natmaster|16 years ago|reply
Just had to http://xkcd.com/386/ this one.
[+] [-] CoryMathews|16 years ago|reply
tabbed browsing
mouse gestures
tab thumbnails
page zooming
opera turbo
bookmark sync
first to pass acid 3
opera unite
Spatial navigation
HTML5 datepicker (currently the only one)
and the list keeps going. These are just some of the major ones.
[+] [-] enomar|16 years ago|reply
[+] [-] axod|16 years ago|reply
Eugh
[+] [-] CoryMathews|16 years ago|reply
g searchstring and i search google. y searchstring and i search yahoo. i have also made some for other sites such as stackoverflow s searchstring and i search SO.
so imo its not a big deal who the default is, with the exception of the main url bar default search.
[+] [-] stuntmouse|16 years ago|reply
How long can they keep it up for the returns they're getting?
[+] [-] Freaky|16 years ago|reply
[+] [-] powrtoch|16 years ago|reply
As for bing, I don't plan on using it so... who cares?
[+] [-] ComputerGuru|16 years ago|reply