Web Directions

Thanks to our significant supporters — Opera

• In: Blog
• By:John
• September 8, 2008
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All of us in the web indus­try know about Opera, the browser, and prob­a­bly have installed it for test­ing, and maybe even our every­day web use. What many of us don’t really real­ize is the sheer reach of the Opera platform.

The browser in the Wii is pow­ered by Opera

Hundreds of mil­lions of mobile devices run Opera Mobile or Mini

Panasonic Viera tele­vi­sions are avail­able with the Opera browser (I’ve long been sur­prised how lit­tle web brows­ing occurs on televisions)

Opera have long been huge cham­pi­ons of web stan­dards, and imple­mented many before any other browser.

They’ve also been at the fore­front of pro­mot­ing stan­dards focussed train­ing for upcom­ing web pro­fes­sion­als with their Opera Web Standards Curriculum (cre­ative com­mons licensed so it can be exten­sively used by any­one for com­mer­cial and non com­mer­cial means alike)

Opera also has a strong Aussie con­tin­gent — with Charles McCathie-​​Neville and Lachlan Hunt both now work­ing in Oslo with them.

Charles and Lachy, along with Dave Storey, well known to many many folks in the web devel­op­ment com­mu­nity, and fre­quent web stan­dards group con­trib­u­tor, and Andreas Bovens.

So, keep an eye out for them, and have a chat with where Opera’s at, and where it’s headed.

Opera is a sig­nif­i­cant sup­porter of the con­fer­ence, and we really appre­ci­ate that support.

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