Opera in black and white

At various conferences and BarCamps, we often say that, in principle, Opera browser can work on any device with a processor and display. Usually this phrase is always met with smiles, meaning something like the following: “Yes, yes, this is a very beautiful phrase, but we know that it is far from the truth and serves only as a marketing slogan.”



Meanwhile, in fact, there is no deception here: we can really make a browser for an electronic device with a screen and a processor. There is an interesting fact: a few years ago we custom-made a browser for ... a computerized boring machine. In fact, this is not as difficult as it looks at first glance, especially given that we have Opera Devices SDK for many years, allowing any company to create a “stuffing” for its “iron” developments based on the Opera platform. Moreover, it may not necessarily be computers or cell phones. Example - please.





Just today, at the Computex 2010 exhibition held today (Taipei, Taiwan), Acer (by the way, the second largest computer equipment manufacturer in the world) presented its new development - Acer LumiRead e-book with a six-inch black and white screen using E electronic ink technology -Ink So, as a browser, the Opera browser works well for all of us (pictured).

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This became possible due to the fact that Acer chose Opera Devices SDK 10.30 for Linux (this e-book works on the basis of Linux) as a development tool, which allowed them to implement a full-fledged modern browser on their device practically without any tedious and lengthy experimentation.



So jokes are jokes, but Opera is more than just a browser ...



It is interesting

Some technical details

The browser for Acer LumiRead uses the same kernel Opera Presto 2.5, which is used in Opera’s desktop / mobile browsers, with appropriate support for open web standards (i.e., the “correct” sites will be displayed correctly on 6-inch LumiRead) with certificates and protection against online fraud. Navigation through web pages is implemented with the up and down arrows (moving through hyperlinks).



The reader itself, in addition to the E-Ink screen with a diagonal of 6 inches, is equipped with a QWERTY-keyboard, 2 GB of internal memory, Wi-Fi and 3G modules, as well as a built-in scanner of international articles of books.