{"id":1671,"date":"2008-10-30T11:56:04","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T18:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2020-09-29T11:28:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T18:28:46","slug":"opera-university-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/1671\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera University Tours"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OperaYesterday I went to a talk on HTML5 that Opera Software<\/strong><\/em> presented at San Francisco State University as part of its University Tours<\/strong><\/em> program. There were about 30 other attendees, almost all of them students. Opera’s Anne van Kestern<\/a> was the main speaker who spoke on HTML5 which is now a draft W3C standard and has partial support in all the major browsers except IE. HTML5 has a lot of cool stuff like the open standards video player built into browsers that support HTML5 and other features that should make web coding easier, improve performance and increase cross-browser compatibly.<\/p>\n

HTML5 is interesting stuff and while it’s not a mobile web standard per see, Opera will support it in their mobile browsers. There is already partial HTML5 support in Opera Mobile 9.5. This is in keeping with Opera’s philosophy that there is only one web, and that the concept of a separate mobile web is a dead end. I’m still on the fence on the One Web vs Mobile Web debate but I have to admit that Opera’s browsers do an amazing job of making the whole web available on any device.<\/p>\n

You can read more about HTML5 at the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group’s site at WHATWG.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anne’s presentation was followed by an appearance by Opera CEO, Jon von Tetzchner who spoke briefly about the company’s products, goals and philosophy. According to Jon, one of Opera’s goals is to make the Web universally available to all the world’s population. Opera Mini is an important piece of that strategy. According to Jon, only 20% of world has access to web connected PCs but 50% have mobile phones. That is why Opera builds modern, high performance browsers that run on as many platforms and devices as possible including obsolete computers and entry level mobile phones. Opera Mini has 20 million users and that number is growing rapidly. Jon bragged that Opera Mini on an low-end phone on a 2G network loads web pages faster than the 3G iPhone.<\/p>\n

Opera University Tour Events are free and are well worth your time. The tour continues in California next week at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
University of California, Irvine<\/td>\nNov 3, 2008<\/td>\n17:00 – 18:30<\/td>\nCalit2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
University of California, Los Angeles<\/td>\nNov 5, 2008<\/td>\n18:00 – 20:00<\/td>\nEng IV, 57-124<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
University of Southern California<\/td>\nNov 5, 2008<\/td>\nTBC<\/td>\nTBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
University of California, San Diego<\/td>\nNov 7, 2008<\/td>\nTBC<\/td>\nTBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

More Opera University events are also scheduled for next week in India, Japan, Russia:<\/p>\n

India<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University<\/td>\nNov 5, 2008<\/td>\n11:00 – 12:30<\/td>\nTBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Japan:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
University of Tsukuba<\/td>\nNov 5, 2008<\/td>\n16:00 – 18:00<\/td>\nLaboratory of Advanced Research B, Room 0112<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Russia:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Far East State Technical University, Vladivostok<\/td>\nNov 5, 2008<\/td>\n12:00-15:00<\/td>\nPushkin theatre, Pushkinskaya str. 27<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tomsk Polytechnical University<\/td>\nNov 6, 2008<\/td>\n15:00-18:00<\/td>\nMain building, aud. 209<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Novosibirsk State Technical University<\/td>\nNov 7, 2008<\/td>\n15:30-18:00<\/td>\nV building, stream aud. 7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ural State University, Yekaterinburg<\/td>\nNov 8, 2008<\/td>\n12:00-15:00<\/td>\nAssembly hall, Lenin’s avenue, 51<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ural State Technical University, Yekaterinburg<\/td>\nNov 8, 2008<\/td>\n16:00-19:00<\/td>\n6th educational building, Radio engineering institute, aud. R-217<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Opera’s Campus tour has additional events scheduled for Russia, Indonesia and Germany through the end of November. after that the tour will visit the Ukraine, Brazil, Poland, the UK and France. There is more information, a complete schedule and sign up information at Opera Education<\/a>. Most of the events are open to both students and the general public, check the site for details.<\/p>\n

Jon also announced that Opera is offering paid internships, including airfare to Norway, to promising university students. Details are on the Opera Education<\/a> site or find out more by attending a campus tour event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I went to a talk on HTML5 that Opera Software presented at San Francisco State University as part of its University Tours program. There were about 30 other attendees, almost all of them students. Opera’s Anne van Kestern was the main speaker who spoke on HTML5 which is now a draft W3C standard and has partial support in all the major browsers except IE. HTML5 has a lot of cool stuff like the open standards video player built into … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68],"tags":[418,110,416,417],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22105,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/22105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}