Opera Mini is Opera’s feature phone browser — our browser for so-called “dumb phones.” It’s lightweight and fast, in part because it is a proxy browser. Requests for pages go from the user’s handset to Opera’s proxy servers. The proxy servers make the request to the requested web site, parse the HTML and JavaScript — [...] [Posted: 23 May 2011]
This generation of the middle classes has internalised the values of individualist aspiration, as zealously propagated by Tony Blair as by Margaret Thatcher. It does not look to the application of social justice to improve its lot. It expects to rely on its own efforts to get ahead and, crucially, to maintain its position. From [...] [Posted: 19 May 2011]
So while I was on vacation for Wedding Week, Google done went and made an announcement about new Chrome developer tools. It includes a fancy new remote debugging feature. I will explain to you how to get to it in a bit, since the directions are slightly different for Mac OS X users. Before I [...] [Posted: 18 May 2011]
Shout out to Rick Ross for his pronunciation because “bawse” > “boss.” What Mazzola’s CSS3 buttons look like in Opera 11.10. In January, Chad Mazzola posted a Thoughtbot article titled Make CSS3 buttons like a boss (via nico604). It is a great read for designers, but it does have one glaring omission: no Opera support.* [...] [Posted: 17 May 2011]
Photo of Jason, me, and Mr. Bear by Catherine Gelera. So for years I have wanted to get everyone I know and love into one room, add booze and music and have The Best F*cking Party Ever. Well a few of the people we know and love couldn’t make it, but I’m pretty sure that [...] [Posted: 17 May 2011]
A running list that I will update as I learn about new spaces. BlankSpaces (Mid-Wilshire) Boxaplex (WeHo) Coloft (Santa Monica) Indie Desk Next Space (Culver City) Office & Company (Pasadena) [Posted: 17 May 2011]
Last week’s big news in browser land: the release of an Opera development channel version: Opera Next. In April, Firefox announced its rapid release channel browser Aurora. And last week, Chrome/Chromium finally released Canary for Mac (Canary for Windows was released in July, 2010). What does this mean? In all three cases, it means we [...] [Posted: 9 May 2011]
Design conferences are like a competition, and only the best of the best are allowed the privilege of sharing their wealth of knowledge and experience to teach us. Any other perspective is illogical. I will also ignore the fact that slaves were originally prohibited from competing in the Olympics. That’s Faruk Ateş in his post [...] [Posted: 4 May 2011]
I did two ~15-minute talks at BarCampLA8: one on HTML5 Forms, and one impromptu, sorta half-a**ed talk on Opera Mini. I took some time to update and correct the Opera Mini slides based on some notes I had, but couldn’t get to (no WiFi at this year’s camp ) and questions I received during the [...] [Posted: 2 May 2011]