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Will Opera 10 come out of Beta or...? - Philipp Lenssen

No, I don't think so (the beta version was released last week). It's something related to cloud computing. - Ionut

Tall order. I remember a day in early 80s when I explained the then-new office microcomputer to a journalist as a "typewriter of tomorrow today." What do you think was the newspaper leading with the very next day? - ianf ⌘

http://unite.opera.com/ - personal web server with many cool apps - Ionut

Great. Could they build an extension or similar feature for Chrome/Chromium? - Jérôme

Would it deserve a blog post on GOS? - Jérôme

LIked this bit "Fridge - A fun place for people to leave notes on your computer." Rrrright. @Jérôme, if it proves a success, the other undoubtedly will follow. There are only so many ways desktop-server can communicate with peers over the IP, so the principle can not have been patented, only certain aspects of Opera's implementation. - ianf ⌘

There was a plugin for Firefox called AllPeers that turned Firefox into a social P2P file sharing application. But the project was stopped because there wasn't enough users. - Brome

While servers are not useless, the idea that not everything has to pass through them is sensible. You need a always on computer (e.g. at home) for Opera Unite to work, don't you? - milivella

Probably not, not always on. They must've taken into the account what it is running on, how to save and reestablish state of connection seamlessly after possible "hiccups" in the network. In effect implemented a stateless system with high level of redundancy, possibly with a distributed p2p file system etc. - ianf ⌘

If you close Opera or you shut down your computer, your web applications will no longer work. You'll get the message: "The device you were trying to access does not seem to be available." - Ionut

Ionut, if you shut down the computer you won't get anything ;-)) But the issue is not how it ceases to be, but how well it recovers from temporary "absences." - ianf ⌘

I would love to see this performed atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa with a really long tube. - Micah

Awesome… Faraday currents! - John Lam

BURN HIM - Josh Haley

Wow! - Kol Tregaskes

:O so cool - Jay

That is unbelievably cool. - Andrew Leahey

Supporting story: http://www.appleinsider.com/article... - Kevin Fox

The offline use is nice, but doesn't the point about the experience being the same seem a little dubious? The HTC Dream and the iPhone run relatively similar versions of WebKit; the problem has always been UA developers not coding to the same specifications. - Mark Trapp

HTML5 the draft? http://www.w3.org/TR... "HTML 5 is still a draft. The contents of HTML 5, as well as the contents of this document which depend on HTML 5, are still being discussed..." - Stephen Mack

Mark: I don't understand. Can you elaborate? Is your concern that other mobile HTML5-compliant engines won't render the same as each other? - Kevin Fox

"The HTML 5 specification will not be considered finished before there are at least two complete implementations of the specification. This is a different approach than previous versions of HTML had. The goal is to ensure that the specification is implementable and usable by designers and developers once it is finished." - Philipp Lenssen

Kevin, I guess I'm thinking about the discussions from Joel Sposky and others (Joel's piece: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items...) when the IE8 "standards mode" was announced: I'm not convinced all mobile HTML5-compliant engines will interpret what it means to be compliant the same way, and this has been an issue with every version of HTML. I get it if we're limiting the... more... - Mark Trapp

Contradictorily to how things should be, if some dominant apps come out while the spec is still in draft form then engine developers will, for better or worse, try to code to those entrenched apps or at least not break them too hard, especially in the mobile market where the ability to run those apps are features that customers use when making purchasing decisions. - Kevin Fox

The alternative would be a "Gears" for every platform, right? It makes sense to me they'd rather chase an evolving HTML5. - Antonio Piccolboni

Exactly. By chasing it, you pin it down. How can you know if a spec draft is complete without building production apps to it? :-) - Kevin Fox

But what color would it be if they hadn't won? - Paul Buchheit

It was orange. - Bec Rowe @d0tski

The previous card was blue. Blue was seriously not good. - Tony Ruscoe

Thrown off balance by Bec's shocking revelation, Philipp's mind blanked on what the previous card was. Breathing slowly, he tried to calm himself. "Let the memory come," he silently commanded his subconscious mind. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

"Yes," Bec uttered in threatening tone, "You suspected this all along, didn't you? Now turn your final card." - Philipp Lenssen

wow, do i feel lost... ok need to go carve a pumpkin or something...oooh look candy!!! - Susan Beebe

@Soulhuntre, that was the nicest thing you've ever said about Obama... I guess you've really, really changed your mind!! glad to hear that you'll be voting for real change on tuesday... awesome! - Chris Hollander