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Now with a new rendering engine, Opera shows its dedication to the future of the Web, by adding support for several cutting-edge standards, and some more of the standards already making their way into use on the Web today. At the same time, the CSS support has had a major overhaul, with an impressive number of bug fixes and new additions. This should bring compatibility with more sites. The upgrade has not just concentrated on standards, there are also many new and very cool interface features. As with Opera 8.50, Opera 9 remains free. No adverts, no license fees, no upgrade charges.
These are the major additions in the Opera 9.x series:
Of course, developers are going to like this release. It has fixed a number of issues that caused problems, as well as creating new possibilities to make life easier. But developers are not the only ones, this release is great for users too. Download Opera 9, give it a try, and enjoy Opera's latest offering.
Yes, it's Opera - just less of it ;)
Opera Mini is one of the smallest browsers, and yet it manages to allow access to the real Web from a mobile phone, not just Wap pages. Unlike previous versions of Opera for mobile, Opera Mini is not tied to just a few specific models. It can run on virtually any Java supporting phone, including many phones with low resources (so in other words, almost all of the mobile phones in use today).
Sounds too good to be true? I know, I had a hard time believing it when I first tried it. It uses a fraction of the amount of memory required by most mobile browsers, but it still manages to let you browse even heavy or bloated web pages. How does it do it? It uses Opera. Opera runs on a server, and it loads the pages for you, processes and renders them, applying Small Screen Rendering so it fits your screen, and then it sends the rendered page to your phone. It even carefully splits big pages up into smaller pieces to minimise the memory requirements.
This is not like a normal compressing proxy server (which compresses the page data and converts it into WML or some other language). It requires the client to do almost no work at all, but it still manages to process a substantial amount of JavaScript and CSS. It's an impressive achievement, but what else would I expect from Opera?