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New developer site to launch soon

Published October 29th, 2006 1:42 PM EST By Daniel Goldman

In the coming days we’re going to launch a new site on opera.com, which will contain developer articles and resources.

Article and tutorial topics on the site will include SVG, AJAX, JavaScript, Widgets, Accessibility, CSS, HTML, Networking, HTTP, and DOM. These articles will be written by both experts in Opera (the company) as well as other experts in the field – including some big name people.

We’re working on some finishing touches on the servers before the developer site is launched. Stay tuned.

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  1. 1 Eddie Oct 30th, 2006 at 10:00 am
    using Opera Opera 9.02 on Windows Windows XP

    Hopefully, this will help wrap up and tie together many of the other developer related content sprinkled throughout the community?

  2. 2 Kelson Oct 30th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.02 on Linux Linux

    Very cool! Combine these resources with the tools hinted at a few weeks ago, and Opera can start getting more web developers on board. That’ll increase the number of supported sites and get more technically knowledgeable people recommending it.

  3. 3 Merinyb Oct 30th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.0 on Windows Windows XP

    Preved Medvedi!

  4. 4 FataL Oct 31st, 2006 at 12:15 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.02 on Windows Windows XP

    I hope we will see developer tools for Opera soon too… ;)

  5. 5 drgandhi Nov 7th, 2006 at 9:14 am
    using Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows Windows 2000

    A very very cool browser!”Tandi…Tanda…browser”(in Hinglish)..make you feel young ….like a boy at heart… the very look of it! keep it this way opera so we all sing the tune lifelong!

  6. 6 Devilasio Nov 12th, 2006 at 8:12 am
    using Opera Opera 9.02 on Windows Windows XP

    drgandhi, so why are you using IE?:)

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