Vodafone uses Opera to promote open standards

The new product - “Widget Manager” of Vodafone company uses Opera and, unlike other platforms (such as Nokia's Widsets ) - open standards. The reason is simple: “Widsets uses Java and this is a closed platform. The basis of the “Widget Manager” is Opera, so it’s faster and easier to write for him ... ”


With the launch of its application, Vodafone expects an influx of widgets: W3C designs allow developers to run the same version of their products on different devices.

“Widgets provide interaction better than regular surfing on the phone ... Only important information is updated - it makes them faster. First, there will be simple widgets, and later they will already use the functions of the phone. ”
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Moreover, it will be possible to use the accumulated base of Opera widgets . And if you know xhtml, css, javascript - it’s easy to make your widget. Knowing SVG you will make it better;)

Prior to this, in September it was announced that T-mobile will also use Opera as a platform for widgets.

Thus, Vodafone and T-mobile will compete with proprietary technologies that are more complex and time consuming.