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I managed the tech/product aspect of Opera Mini and its direction for most of its first decade (we started in late 2004). There's 250+ million monthly active u
by johansch 12y ago
I managed the tech/product aspect of Opera Mini and its direction for most of its first decade (we started in late 2004). There's 250+ million monthly active users of it now (most in places like SEA, Russia, India, Africa, South America). Reading stuff like this is quite rewarding.
This post somehow made me think of the first English language blog post from early 2006 that really appreciated what we (me and my team) accomplished:
http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/1008770 http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/1008770
"Opera Mini: Best Mobile Web Browser Bar None
Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2006 12:41 pm"
- wcummings 12y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong, but rendering is done on a server farm, at least partially, so J2ME itself is not entirely responsible for a good UX.
- johansch 12y agoWe run the Opera web browser core on the server side, in many, many instances. The J2ME client paints stuff like it would paint a PDF or Flash document. Obviously we paid extreme amounts of attention to compressibility/amount of bytes transferred. (Most of our work on this aspect happened while we were using GPRS (and later EDGE) ourselves.)
- pinkyand 12y agoOpera mini is a great browser and very very lightweight in ram. I really think that if the goal of firefox os was to create smartphones affordable to everyone , they should have gone with opera mini - they've would've got better performance at lower costs.