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AJAX Support Added To Opera Browser

AJAX Support Also Added to the Opera SDK, Says CEO
By Jeremy Geelan
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January 7, 2006 06:15 PM EST
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Opera CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner (pictured) has confirmed that Opera Software has added support for AJAX to both the Opera browser and software development kit (SDK).

von Tetzchner appears to be betting that AJAX will spur Opera's frontal assault on the embedded browser market, since an increasing number of devices now require full Web browsing and the ability to run web-based user interfaces, and it is a relatively fresh market with as yet no outright winner, circumstances which may favor an agile enterprise like Norway-based Opera.

"In addition to being a full Internet browser," von Tetzchner saus, "Opera is an execution environment for Web applications and dynamic user interfaces based on interoperable open Web technologies such as AJAX."

The Opera 8.5 SDK will support AJAX in Q1 of 2006.

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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the all-new International Cloud Computing Expo series, of the International Virtualization Expo series, of AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, and of the long-running SOAWorld Conference & Expo series. He's founder of Cloud Computing Journal, Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other leading SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.

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Think 01/11/06 10:20:16 PM EST

BlueMint,

Opera has had great support for AJAX for a long time. AJAX has absolutely nothing to do with the AudioScrobber iTunes plugin.

Note that what the real news is (and which the journalist missed out on) that Opera now supports AJAX on mobile phones, TV-sets etc. This is a significant leap forward for these embedded environments which today is full of poor and proprietary solutions.