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Opera recap of 2007: things I missed

Published January 11th, 2008 12:23 PM EST By Daniel Goldman

A couple weeks ago I wrote a short recap of the major events, milestones, and releases that took place in the Opera world over the year of 2007. It turns out I missed a few.

Jan Standal, Director of Product Management at Opera, just posted his own recap of 2007 on his blog. (I know Jan wouldn’t want me to say this, but I consider him one of the premier brains behind Opera)

Here are some of the things from Jan’s recap that I missed:

  • We published a labs build with <video>, SVG-video and 3d-canvas
  • We made 2 major milestones for some secret projects
  • David Storey, Navjot Pawera, and Shwetank in our Open the Web (OtW) team worked with lots of important websites, from companies like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, to increase compatibility with the Opera browser
  • We were at more than 15 Web developer conferences in 2007 and build lots of good relationships
  • We published around 40 articles on Dev.Opera since Chris Mills joined.

(Read Jan’s recap)

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(Jan Standal, left, with Opera’s CEO at the Rock Opera party in San Francisco)

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  1. 1 suribe Jan 13th, 2008 at 9:13 am
    using Opera Opera 9.25 on Linux Linux

    and for 2008: Opera for iphone :D
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykEPLODluRw&eurl=http://www.uberpulse.com/us/2008/01/ces_8_opera_browser_arrives_on_iphone.php

  2. 2 Juba Jan 13th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.24 on Windows Windows XP

    And for 2008 I hope for some breakthrough on set-up boxes for TV. I have been waiting for that area for the last two years. Is this the year where Opera will be launched on high volume boxes?

  3. 3 fearphage Jan 14th, 2008 at 1:25 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    We made 2 major milestones for some secret projects

    Was there a point to mentioning this with no other information?

  4. 4 Daniel Goldman Jan 14th, 2008 at 9:30 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    suribe: :)

  5. 5 fearphage Feb 16th, 2008 at 9:02 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    We made 2 major milestones for some secret projects

    Any chance you could say if these are community requested features/functionality?

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