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in your pocketOpera Software cracks screen size
problem. 15 October 2002 Opera
Software today presented a technology breakthrough that will bring
the power of the full Internet into the pockets of millions of users.
Opera Software has finally cracked the screen size problem that has
plagued and stopped the full-scale implementation of the full Internet
onto small mobile devices. Opera's engineers have managed to reformat
existing HTML Web sites to fit on small screens, while maintaining
Opera's small size and low resource consumption, making the full Internet
now an option on mobile phones. In the past, the
favorite solution to the problem of scaling Web pages to fit a small
screen was to zoom or scroll horizontally, something that has not provided
users with a good Internet experience. Alternatively, the industry
has experimented with new formats like the wireless application protocol
(WAP) and the Japanese iMode. The former has largely proved a failure
because of the lack of content since most Web sites did not want to
support several different formats. While iMode has managed to avoid
some of WAP's problem of lack of content, users have still suffered
from the lack of access to the full Internet and their favorite sites.
With Opera's Small-Screen Rendering, WAP and iMode will over time be
made redundant. "With Small-Screen Rendering
bringing the full HTML-enabled Internet to mobiles, we can finally
see the promises of high-speed mobile networks materializing as concrete
benefits for everyone," says Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera
Software ASA. "Content providers will save cost by not having
to provide several versions of their sites in different formats like
those demanded by today's WAP-technology, operators will get a more
attractive product, and all users will finally be able to access their
favorite Web sites from their small mobile devices." www.opera.com
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