Opera Widgets

Opera Widgets features

Opera Widgets in two flavors

Opera Widgets standard solution

• Provides application framework for distribution and execution of open- standards-based Web applications
• Installs new applications via dowload, preinstallation or push to the mobile device.
• Provides online widgets repositories with over 1000 widgets available
• Aligns with the W3C working draft, based on original Opera specifications
• Leverages Web development community

Opera Web applications platform

• Enabled in the Opera Mobile SDK
• Provides mobile software development framework for an integrated, customized and powerful device user interface based on Web technologies
• Allows you to take over parts of the entire user interface of the mobile device to create a customized idle screen or application screens

Designed for cross-platform deployments

One widget - adaptive style with CSS.

Opera Widgets is a mechanism for delivering cross-platform Web services with a locally-installed front end/client developed with Web technology. As widgets can be deployed on mobile devices, they are perfectly suited for Web 2.0 type services with sharing and user-driven content.

Opera Widgets can be deployed on multiple platforms with a single distribution file.

Due to the platform-independent architecture of the Opera Widget implementation, the Web developer can design his widget for different screen sizes and CPU/memory configurations using common Web technologies and design rules.

Three unique UI modes for a single device

A single Opera Widget may have three possible UI states for a single device to optimize for different use cases.

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