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On opera.wapland.org you can download an extended version of Opera Mini with new features. We have the Palm version here, it needs of course the IBM Java VM like the original Opera Mini:
http://www.tamoggemon.com/blog/contents/2006/July/operaext/Opera Mini 1.2.prc
New features are:
- no title or foot bar – more space for site contents (tap the screen in the lower left corner to open the menu)
- copying text – but this shouldn’t be relevant on a Palm
- importing and exporting bookmarks (from / to a VFS device)
- downloading files to a VFS device
- opening links in the system’s browser (e. g. Blazer)
- saving page to card (and loading it of course)
- getting plain text of a page, saving it to card
- auto reloading page
- file manager (VFS)
- statistics
- shortcuts / customation
There are even newer versions with much more interesting features like tabbed browsing and so on, but they don’t work on a Palm – at least not with the IBM Virtual Machine.
I don’t know if this is an original version, an extended or “hacked” version because I don’t talk Russian, but it shows how much you can do with J2ME. So let’s hope that some of this features (tabbed browsing, real downloading) will appear in the next “official” release!
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Hi,
Is the OPera Mini 1,2 itself in Russian or is it just the web page that is ?
Regards,
//P
The program language is availible in Russian and English, but English should be pre-setted.
Alex
I don’t see why copying text is irrelevant on the palm. Is it b/c it’s not a multi-tasking OS? It’s useful for other things, like looking up terms on wikipedia and copying email addresses. I’ve been waiting for this feature in opera for awhile!
Hey! This looks cool!
Is anybody having any problems that the whole interface is black with black text? I feel too lazy to try to go into the color settings and changing all of the settings. Anyway to get it to the defaults easily?
Thanks,
Donald
@Donald: You have the problem with *this* version from TamsPalm that the the text & background is black?! I have this with never versions, this is “mod 117″ from opera.wapland.org which is the latest & working-on-a-Palm version. Trying to change the theme / colors is a very good idea, I will have a look at this soon.
@mathmonkey: you can tap a button “mark” and then “copy” in text fields. You don’t need this as you can imho mark the text with the stylus and then copy it into the standard Palm OS clipboard. And I think the hack’s copy feature only works within Opera but not into other apps.
Alex
No, I downloaded the Mod 117. I couldn’t really get the one from here to work and I didn’t feel like fussing with it.
Seems cool though.
Hi
Thanks for the link Although it doesn’t work on my T3 says some sort of error
anyone else tried it on t3 or any hints on how to fix my problem
Thanks