The Web Everywhere

Opera

the Best Internet Experience
on Any Device for Everyone

Charles McCathieNevile - standard manager guy

chaals@opera.com, gormer@opera.com

Gorm Eriksen - still does real work

There is one Web

But many ways to use it

Opera Users in 2006

(in very rough numbers)

• 40 million desktop downloads
• 40 million new cell phones
  on 40 different handsets
• 10 million Opera Mini users
• 500.000 My.Opera.com users
• 1000 Widgets (and 100k+ Widgetize!d pages)
• (Nintendo Wii, Airplane seats, N770, Archos, Nintendo DS, ...)
• Opera on the OLPC...

Web on a $50 phone, a $100 laptop, and a $250 Wii ...

There are other browsers...

• Joost, MyTube, ... - turning your laptop into a TV
• IPTV/DTV - turning your TV into a browser
• iPhone - web on a telephone!!! (Oh wait, BTDT...)
• Embedded browsers for UI on connected devices
• Opera for OLPC, "Sweetened" (OLPC UI) to Brazilian taste
• Printers, barcode scanners, kiosks, ...

Not all "other" devices are telephones
... and diversity is increasing

The browser is the platform

New services (and UIs) based on existing Web technology

The web as platform

Yahoo! mail, Google Earth,

The social web

My.Opera, Flickr, MySpace, MusicBrainz, YouTube

The open web

Deli.cio.us, mash-ups, AllYourDataBaseAreBelongToUs ...

Innovation based on things that people understand and have

Challenges

Performance

Nintendo DS, OLPC, IPTV, printers, ...

Patents(Who wants video anyway?)

Popularity

Allowing regular people (e.g. blind folks) to produce applications

Compatibility

A big investment in legacy content and knowledge

Legacy tools and devices disappear slowly

Control

Filling out tax forms with a Wii remote?

Who is controlling your data, or following your browsing?

Opportunities

• Linking your browsers, and the information they manage
• Connect to the device (Opera Platform) "LBS", ...
• Browse in the living room, in the hotel pub, car, ...
• Widgets - desktop-type apps on the desktop!
  ... and console, and phone, ...
• Libraries and tools for functionality, new standards for cooler apps
• Content is growing and standards democratise development

Usage is still exploding

New Web standards?

Stuff we need, work already beng done

• Basics: HTML5, CSS 2.1 / 3, ECMAscript4, ...
• Adaptation: @media=, CSS3MQ, device descriptions?
• Buzzwords: Ajax, SVG, APIs, Compound Documents
• Special cases: MathML & friends
• Applications: pushed events, Cross-document messaging
• canvas 2D and 3D, audio, video, print, ...
• DIAL / Xforms / CDF / ...

How many more do we want?