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Opera have recently announced the release of their Mobile based products, which are available to download on the Opera Website. I couldn’t help noticing that they have made a version of the new software (which looks quite promising) for every single mobile OS in the world, EXCEPT Palm OS.

Did it escape their notice that Palm still owns a rather large market share in handheld devices? Granted it isn’t as much as it was, say, a few years ago, but it is still one of the larget shares in the market.

In fact, Palm’s offspring company PalmOne (previously Handspring) is making ever increacing steps into the smartphone market. Which, funnily enough, is what Opera Mobile is aimed at. With the Treo 650 on the way, one wonders whether their built in browser is much better than Opera Mobile.

For us Treo users, we currently have a few options when it comes to browsers. We can either go for the built in browser (simply labeled Internet, it’s actually called Blazer 3.0), or AvantGo, which is actually an offline content browser. Blazer is fine, it is fully XHTML compatible, and is fairly configurable, but, being the geek that I am I would like to have a choice

I think it is foolish of Opera to not develop for Palm OS. I’m sure they have their reasons, whatever they are, but I’ve been left dissapointed.

Gradiated background Example

A quick templete made by (apparent) demand. Simple method using CSS and a very thin image to create a nice effect.

Here is a Live Example

Take a look at A List Appart on a real life example of this technique They have linked their CSS file, but you can get to it here
UPDATE: Trendy bastiges that they are, they’ve gone for the more “modern” crosshatch style background.

UPDATE… AGAIN: Ok so trying to link to a CSS file on the ALA site is like trying to throw a boulder at a salmon in a river. It’s just not gunna happen.

This is the start of a php module file. This particular one was detail.php on a project recently finished.

if (!eregi("modules.php", $_SERVER[PHP_SELF])) {
    die ("You can't access this file directly...");
}
$id = $_GET['id'];
$index = 1;
require_once("mainfile.php");
$module_name = basename(dirname(__FILE__));
get_lang($module_name);
include("header.php");

This was achived by using the Enscript Plugin from sYp

I appear to have been featured on a MajorGeeks newspage as a model for their new tshirt!! Haha, that lightened up my day

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