Opera for web developers

April 18, 2006 by Oliver
Filed under: Computers, Programming, Technology, Web Programming 

web developers might use Netscape. Well now I’ve found out why web developers could use Opera.

I just found out by chance that they do a product called Opera Mini – a J2ME version of Opera for mobile phones. Well Opera on the desktop can display any page (almost) as it would appear in Opera mini just by pressing Shift+F11. This mode looks for a handheld stylesheet and if one isn’t found uses it’s clever small screen rendering mode. When I say “almost” I mean that the browser still identifies itself the same as before and many websites change how they look when the detect a mobile browser (or more usually a mobile device).

It’s still pretty cool though.

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  1. Oliver on Tue, 18th Apr 2006 1:08 pm

    2. After downloading the Nokia browser simulator I have to say that Opera Mini is several thousand times better…

  2. Oliver on Tue, 18th Apr 2006 1:42 pm

    3. Just in case you were wondering, according to Google Analytics 0.61% of my visitors use Opera…

  3. Going mobile - Oliver Brown on Thu, 20th Apr 2006 11:41 am

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  4. Don on Mon, 5th Jun 2006 1:56 pm

    5. Opera is also the only desktop browser that attempts to render WML (WAP) pages. Its helpful for syntax checking, but usually not a very realistic compared to what you’ll see on the phone.