Opera 'reinvents the web' with Opera Unite

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Opera to 'reinvent the web' on June 16th!

See here if you don't believe me!

;)

And from the register:

"With 15 years of continuous innovation, Opera will introduce a technology that will forever change the fundamental fabric of the Web," reads an email from the company. "Join us at this exclusive video-based press briefing for a glimpse of the future of Web computing and one of Opera's most significant innovations to date."
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Wouldn't surprise me if it's just the official full release of Opera 10, and it's so-called Turbo technology [which is an 'innovation' they borrowed from Onspeed in the first place].
 
Be interesting to see but "reinventing the Web" might be overstating whatever they have to announce. Maybe something "cloud" based as the teaser graphic seems to suggest.
 
Ratbag said:
The Turbo mode works well in the right situation - ie a netbook with a dongle. If you're at home on a decent connection you won't benefit at all.
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How does that work then?. I'm curious!!.

I have a T Mobile USB dongle and the speed can sometimes be ridiculously slow, depending on location.
 
Its very similar to the technology Onspeed have been touting for years.

When your web browser requests a web page, the ONSPEED software redirects that request to the ONSPEED compression servers. They take the respective web page content, compress it and send it back down to the ONSPEED software which decompresses it and sends it to the browser requesting the information.
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Change the word 'Onspeed' to 'Opera' in the above paragraph and you've got it!

It won't let you download files faster, but many graphics laden websites should load quicker [at the cost of any images looking worse due to the compression].

;)
 
I think the TMobile dongle already compresses images during download and display, but I will give this a go and see if it improves speed any. Thanks. :cool:
 
There's a comment in the source for that website:

Code: 
<!-- 	
We start our little story with the invention of the modern day computer. 
Over the years, the computers grew in numbers, and the next natural step in the evolution was to connect them together. To share things.
But as these little networks grew, some computers gained more power than the rest and called themselves servers ...
-->
 
Opera has been doing this pre compression nonsense for years now.. Its hardly anything new, as others have stated many mobile isp's compress data. Even back in the 14k days option were available to proxy data to receive it faster.

It's basically just a proxy server with data cached and compressed to reduce the quality of images. It's no innovation. If it's similar to the previous opera products available for the last 2 years that do exactly the same thing, they own everything you do, and will sell the data, read the small print.

It can make things faster, It also means a -10+ years step backwards in quality.

Browsers for the public should run fast in a sandbox, end of, no need for gimmicks.
 
While the announcment may be somewhat full of hyperbole, it is worth remembering which common features opera introduced first in the past, including little things like Tabbed browsing (introduced in opera in 2000, the first browser to include tabbed browsing as part of the main install) and so on.

Opera does have a history of being first with new ideas for the web that subsequently become commonplace and adopted by the other browsers..
 
Dolph said:
While the announcment may be somewhat full of hyperbole, it is worth remembering which common features opera introduced first in the past, including little things like Tabbed browsing (introduced in opera in 2000, the first browser to include tabbed browsing as part of the main install) and so on.

Opera does have a history of being first with new ideas for the web that subsequently become commonplace and adopted by the other browsers..
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Yeah. I read some article on the Opera website a month or so ago listing all the common browser features we take for granted that Opera actually pioneered. :)
 
Dolph said:
While the announcment may be somewhat full of hyperbole, it is worth remembering which common features opera introduced first in the past, including little things like Tabbed browsing (introduced in opera in 2000, the first browser to include tabbed browsing as part of the main install) and so on.

Opera does have a history of being first with new ideas for the web that subsequently become commonplace and adopted by the other browsers..
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Absolutely, for innovation Opera are second to none. Tabbed browsing, mouse gestures and speed dial are all things I've picked up from Opera that I couldn't do without now (even tho I'm using Firefox extensions versions of them). Will be interesting to see what this new thing is.
 
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