Opera Releases SDK for Cross-Device Development, Christen Krogh

Opera Software on Wednesday released the Opera Widgets SDK in beta, which will let developers deploy Web applications on any device.

The Opera Widgets SDK features an emulator, libraries, documentation and Opera Dragonfly for debugging. It’s based on open standards developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), whose mission it is to create an Internet that can be treated the same across any network and device (the “One Web” vision). The standard employs common Web technologies such as HTML, CSS and media queries, JavaScript and Ajax in creating advanced Web applications. "Promoting One Web takes on additional meaning with the support of an SDK to develop full-scale Web applications for any range of devices at one time,” said Christen Krogh, chief development officer at Opera Software.

Today the Opera Widgets repository contains over 1,200 widgets for desktop, mobile phones and devices such as ARCHOS portable media players. These widgets include games, news feeds, information widgets for travel and weather, as well as Web developer tools for color pickers, pixel rulers and more.

"Opera has had the foresight to leverage the Web as a way to deliver content across devices," said Jill Aldort, senior analyst of consumer mobility applications at Yankee Group. "Demand to access information, content, and communities while mobile, is high enough such that having a full Web browsing experience is becoming a requirement for mobile phones and devices. The mobile Internet is developing as a platform for application deployment, with widgets enabling improved content syndication. Opera is well positioned to play in this convergence initiative."

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