RSSOpera Resizes the Web in Beta Browser
By David Worthington | Published November 24, 2004, 2:23 PM
Opera Software is pitching a new idea that promises to put and end to the problem of rendering Web pages effectively regardless of screen size.
Opera's Extensible Rendering Architecture (ERA) blends together all of the company's existing rendering technologies -- including Small- and Medium-Screen Rendering (SSR/MSR) for mobile devices and TV-rendering -- to tackle the problem head on with dynamic resizing.
As a result of this new rendering framework, Opera claims that it has eliminated horizontal scrolling altogether and made it easier to print out Web pages in their entirety. Moreover, ERA is said to be a "compelling" accessibility feature when used in combination wit the browser's built-in zoom function.
Conventional wisdom dictates that most Web pages were designed to be viewed with conventional laptop and desktop computer with portable devices as an afterthought in common Web design.
"Opera's vision is to enable people to access their favorite Web sites on any device, and ERA means that users can have a great Internet experience on any screen regardless of a Web page's width, tables, or frames," says Opera CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner. "With its unlimited applicability, ERA technology is truly a milestone in Web page rendering."
The feature will be incorporated into the next release of the Opera Web browser. In the meantime, the adventurous may beta test a public preview by downloading Opera 7.60 Preview 3 from FileForum.
Resizing images to sizes other 100% looks ugly. I'm a creative person though so I get picky about it. How do I make it look smoother? If I can't I hope they improve on the quality.
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|Try Preferences > Multimedia > Smooth Zooming of Images
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|wouldnt you need to render the page properly before resizing it
opera has bad rendering issues so i wish them luck
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|Did you try the latest preview? The rendering has improved a lot. There are only a few sites that don't render correctly. No more then the gecko browsers (firefox, mozilla, etc.)
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|yeah i have
even forums whhich are standards compliant show little glitches
if they cant render sites which are standards compliant then im real scared of what it does elsewhere
theres too much opera doesnt support for me to use it
firefox supports almost everything, and has a much cleaner interface(no matter how much you kill opera's)
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|I like Opera and think it's the best browser available for Windows but medium screen rendering totally sucks. It screws up the layout on nearly every site I've tested it with. The problem seems to be worse on sites that use a CSS layout.
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|This is the best browser ever made! The one who said that you can change the text size in IE... he's wrong... Opera zooms the entire page... not only the text... What do you do in IE when the entire site is made with images? :) In Opera you zoom the page... The browser is very good for people with disabilities... and now for people which need aural browsers and small screen resolutions.
Keep up the great work!
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|You can do full zooming in WebSpeedReader--images, tables, and all--using the mousewheel, pressing the numpad + key for quick zooming, and by settig a default zoom.
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|Doesn't IE allow CTRL+UP/Down arrow to make text smaller? Not to mention anyone can code their own Zoom in the context menu. Simple javascript to resize images and text to fit a screen. Sounds like automation gone old.
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|It is not just zooming... It renders the page for a small screen, so it reformats the page and makes things smaller where nescecerry. So this works MUCH better then just zooming the page in and out. This truly is an innovative feature (not the first for opera).
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|This method still requires the end user to load the full page though? Then it's rendered.
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|no requires full loading... the zoom is automatic when the page loads...
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|i just want to point out that opera has had a zoom feature for years, and its way different/better than IE. it resizes EVERYTHING, not just text. It does images, tables, text, etc. It also can zoom out really fark or in really far, not just small/medium/large like IE.. I guess this new feature is automatic depending on your screen resolution, and im sure its more tweaked per resolution. So instead of like 80%, it'll be like 83.79% so it fits perfect at a specific resolution.
ive been using opera for years, i love it.. although i dont really have use for that feature, i view all pages at 100% and i like it that way, but im sure others will love that feature (people with super high resolutions, or people stuck at 640x480)
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|There are a still a few bugs in the ERA - important to remember when testing the PRE-BETA. But this is looking to be an excellent new feature to dynamically alter web page to fit your current window size. I think many can agree horizontal scrolling is a PITA - that will now be a thing of the past.
Along with the voice interface (combining browser control / screen reading / W3C VoiceML + CSS aural page control), this is shaping up to be one of the most innovative browser releases for a while.
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|I have been off IE for 2 years now, Opera is teh win! Anyways the latest previews are really damm good. Opera is one of the few programs today that truly remain innovative.
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