Opera Targets Widget Developers With a New SDK
Opera has released a new Opera Widgets SDK beta, which is designed to help web developers deploy widget-like applications on any Opera supported device. The new Widget SDK supports the Opera desktop browser, Opera Mobile and the company’s Wii-based web browser. The only Opera variant left out of the fun is Opera Mini, which is too stripped down for widget support.
Opera may not be all that widespread on the desktop, but the company does have an impressive reach when it comes to the diverse number and scope of devices where Opera technologies can run. Using the new SDK developers can create widgets that run everywhere from mobile phones to the Wii to a portable media player.
The SDK is based on open, W3C standards and so long as your web app uses HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it shouldn’t be too hard to get an Opera Widget up and running. There’s an emulator for testing on the various Opera platforms and even support for using Opera’s new Dragonfly debugging tool.
Considering Dragonfly itself is still in the early testing stages, it might not be the best choice of debugger, but the rest of the Opera Widget SDK looks like a very solid offering. If you’re interested check out the extensive documentation and head over to the forums if you have questions.
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