The Opera Platform
fredag, oktober 10, 2003
We've seen how Opera can be used to vertically display any website on your mobile. - Opera today announced it's "Opera Platform", where they say standard Web-lingua is the essence to making it interoperate with other apps.
Introducing the Opera Platform:
" [...] By using the widely available talent pool knowledgable in Web technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and DOM, all contents can be easily created, made to interact with each other and dynamically updated over the air from the operator's server at any time."
What is probably also happening here is a utilization of the current menu-configuration scheme. (I'm not sure about this though, cause Opera's mobile browsers are a little different that the others.)
Among other things, this configurability lets you send messages to other apps. On windows, and certainly Linux, you can use this to make Windows shut itself down or go on standby, or any other thing you can do from the operating system commandline/shell. And all of this can be 'integrated' with the current state of affairs, for instance by sending off some selected text or an URL to another program. And most importantly, you don't need any plugins!
An example from my status-bar; A button telling Windows to disconnect any open RAS connection.
Button8, "Disconnect"="Execute program, "rasdial.exe", "/disconnect""
If you're using Opera 7.1 or later, you can add this button right now! (Click or drag the link)
(More buttons over at nontroppo's Opera7 custom buttons)
Another example, telling Opera to open the clicked link in IE:
Item, "IE" = Copy link & Execute program, "iexplore.exe","%c"
The possibilities are endless, really.
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