Having introduced its Small Screen Rendering-technology in 2002, Opera finally follows up with a version targeted at Medium-sized screens.
Claiming to have revolutionized how people interact with their data-enabled phones with the introduction of Small-Screen Rendering (SSR) technology in 2002, Opera Software today unveiled its next-generation Medium-Screen Rendering (MSR) technology. While SSR aims to generate user-friendly versions of web pages for today's smartphone-sized screens, Opera admits it's not a perfect solution for larger screens, which is what has lead to the advent of MSR.
The news of Opera's MSR follows short on the heels of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)'s recent recommendation of a standard for device-server communication, aiming to solve some of the problems mobile device users face today. The W3C's release consists of several structural recommendations to enable a system capable of expressing device capabilities and user preferences used to guide the adaptation of content.
According to Opera, its solution will solve the problem current devices ranging from PDAs in landscape mode to low-resolution TV screens face, not being able to render web pages designed for desktops - typically running at a resolution of 800 x 600 pixels or higher - in a satisfactory manner. MSR will identify the content of a web page and adapt different elements individually to fit on medium-sized screens. Original fonts, colours, design and style are left virtually untouched, according to Opera.
The company also said MSR has been met with enthusiasm from the industry, and has already been delivered to several vendors with products to be announced in the near future.
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