The Mobile Browser...

Opera - the browser company

the Best Internet Experience
on Any Device for Everyone

Charles McCathieNevile - Chief Standards Officer

chaals@opera.com

There is one Web

But many ways to use it

A world of Opera Users

32 million desktop downloads in 2006, so far
Over 40 million cell phones
Over 8 million Opera Mini users
Over 500.000 My.Opera.com users
Over 800 "true" Widgets (over 100k Widgetize!d pages)
TVs, Game consoles, Airplane seats, communicators, ...

Not just telephones are mobile
... and diversity is increasing

Desktop and Mobile

The Web began on desktop
...but then, so did personal computing
Computing is a big, broad space
Not everyone has, or needs or even wants a desktop PC
People want access to services
Developers want to create value by producing services
- not lose value by having to re-engineer the same thing again

Yesterday's Mobile Web

Walled gardens

Special standards
(WML, cHTML, iHTML)
Mean increased development cost

And no access to the real Web

Today on smartphones

Web 1.0: HTML, XHTML, CSS - Pages
New content: SVG (graphics), RSS (news)
Web 2.0: AJAX, Platform

The rest of us

A browser in 100kb
Client <-> Proxy <-> Web
The full web on almost anything
Compression means cheaper pages
...that are building ARPU

Opera Mini 3.0

Released last week...

Photo blogging - connect to the camera
RSS (and atom and so on) Feed reading
Serious security upgrade
Improved speed and layout
Content folding
Easier SMS distribution

Mini 1.0 and 2.0 both won many awards for best mobile product

...we expect the same for Mini 3.0
Unless Mini 4.0 gets them!

Mini matters

Compression of data is important
Massive increase in who can use the real web
Taking innovations from desktop and smartphone to feature phones
...and driving some innovations back
...to offer people access to what they want

Me: Cricinfo, Rupee:dollar?, where is a cheap room? mail, song lyrics

Web 2.0 and mobile

The browser is the platform

New services based on AJAX

The web as platform: Yahoo! mail, Google Earth, Deli.cio.us
The social web: My.Opera, Flickr, MySpace, MusicBrainz, YouTube
The open web: mash-ups using Web APIs and libraries

The same services are becoming popular on mobile

Widgets: Web 2.0 unleashed

Widgets are programs built with Web standards
Newsreaders, games, developer tools, services, ...
Cross Platform, with the full power of standards
Anyone can make a widget
Shipping on devices already, in phones soon...

Opera Widgets

Easy - just use Web Standards

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Hello World!</title>
  <style>
    * { background:#fff }
  </style>
  </head>
  <body>
     <h1>Hello World!</h1>
  </body>
</html>

config.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<widget>
  <width>454</width>
  <height>300</height>
  <widgetname>Hello World!</widgetname>
</widget>

Web standards are the glue

Basics: HTML, CSS, ECMAscript / DOM
Buzzwords: Acid2, Ajax
Scalable Vector Graphics
Compound Document Formats
canvas (2D & 3D), Audio()
etc...

Putting cross-platform development in reach

In summary...

The web is going mobile
Mobile is turning into the real web
Divergence in devices, capabilities
BUT Convergence in standards...
...gives developers a reliable platform
(and a low-cost, well-known one)

Web Applications and Pages
better on every device for everyone

Thank you

there are no foolish questions,
only fools who do not question

chaals@opera.com