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Guests from Opera
- Navjot S Pawera, Product Manager at Opera Software:
** Website
- Henny Swan, Web Evangelist at Opera Software:
** Website
Questions about Opera Unite
- What actually is Opera Unite and what can we do with it?
** Will it be standard in future releases of the Opera desktop browser? Will there be a standalone version?
** How does Opera support external developers, plugins and extensions?
- Let’s talk about security! It seems to me that communiation is routed through Opera servers. What about privacy?
** A lot of people don’t like to entrust their personal data to third parties. This goes especially for sensible data!
It doesn’t seem to be a „decentralized“ service, if all communication go through Opera server!?
** Some of Opera Unite’s terms are discussed by the internet community. E.g.: Terms that give Opera full rights of the shared content. This seems rather unpleasant.
** What does Opera think about copyright issues? There is no dought about the fact that people will try to use such a service for illegal activities! Will there be any filters or something else?
- How much power will the Opera Unite services need? E.g. it doesn’t seem appropriate to replace your common webserver through Opera Unite, as PCs are usually not build to cope with heavy traffic etc. Can Opera Unite be routed to a running webserver on your local machine?
- Do you see any special advantages for small web-deceloper companies or freelance web designers in using Opera Unite?
- Where do you want to go with Opera Unite? What are your future plans?
- Do you see Opera Unite as an attempt to raise Opera’s browser market share?
Questions about Accessibility/WebDev
- How is Opera helping making the web more Accessible?
- What can the developers do?
- What is Opera doing besides developing a Browser?
Links mentioned in the interview
- Opera Unite – share files by running a server from the comfort of the browser.
- Opera Developer Network – articles, blog posts, tools, tips and resources for developers.
- ODIN blog – news, views and presentations from the Opera Developer Network.
- Opera Labs – a showcase of technologies for tomorrow.
- Opera Web Standards Curriculum – tutorials in standards-based Web design, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript development.
Thank you Henny for this link list.
Trivia
Nice Henny Swan Quote: I’m relieved you didn’t hear my dog snore at the start: had to throw a stuffed top at her to get her to wake up!
Navjot: was terrorised by a wasp, but it didn’t stay to give comments…
Remarks for our listeners
Technikwuerze is regulary a german podcast about web standards and will be published every week with a new episode. If you wish to listen to more content from us in englisch, plese drop us a line at twitter.
Das Interview haben wir in englischer Sprache geführt. Eine Übersetzung ins Deutsche ist nicht geplant.
