Yahoo! oneSearch launch, and on Opera Mobile & Mini

mobile, browsers

Yahoo! has launched what looks to be a very clever search service, targeted for access from mobile devices. It’s called oneSearch and I suspect it’s something that they must have had a pretty smart team putting a truckload of work into designing, developing, and testing. You can find more information about it over at the Yahoo! search blog. Here’s a nutshell description:

With limited bandwidth, screen size and time, this service puts information all right in front of you without having to click on multiple links and then find your way back through a convoluted navigation process, as you might have to do on a more conventional mobile search service.

It’s also interesting to hear that Opera and Yahoo! have shaken hands on a deal to make Yahoo! “the exclusive provider of mobile search” on Opera Mini and Opera Mobile, “across more than 100 countries worldwide”. See the Opera press release and writeup over at webpronews site.

2007-01-09 · comments off

WebKit devs kicking some CSS ass

browsers, standards

David Hyatt appears to have kept himself busy over the holidays by implementing support in WebKit for a couple of very nifty CSS features: first, some custom CSS properties for stroking text (that is, for adding outline effects to character glyphs), followed by support for the CSS3 box-shadow property.

Bonus feature: While you’re over at the Surfin’ Safari blog, make sure to also check out the video of KDE/KHTML developer-demigods Lars Knoll and George Staikos talking about KHTML and WebKit. If you’re a browser-technologies junkie, consider it a must-see.

2007-01-08 · comments

New version of Nokia S60 browser

mobile, browsers

David Storey gave me a heads-up about a review of a new version of the Nokia S60 browser that ships in “S60 3dEditionFeaturePack 1″.

2007-01-07 · comments off