Friday, April 23, 2010

Opera's Mobile Emulator for Desktop

Opera Software said April 22 it is "making mobile Web testing even easier" with the release of a new emulator for testing the Opera browser on Websites from Windows, Linux and Mac desktop computers.

"With Opera Mobile running on the desktop, developers are relieved of [the burden of] investing time and money in multiple phones for testing. Opera Mobile allows developers to resize the application easily to emulate the wide variety of mobile screen sizes. The Opera Widgets Mobile Emulator similarly helps developers test their mobile widgets directly from their computers. Both these applications can be used in tandem with Opera Dragonfly [a JavaScript debugger], significantly lowering the barrier to mobile debugging," Opera said.

"With more people accessing the Web from their phones, optimizing and tweaking Web content for display on phones is increasingly important," Bovens said in a statement. "By making a version of Opera Mobile available for normal desktop computers, [Opera Software has made it so that] developers are now able to create mobile optimized Websites and widgets quickly and efficiently, without investing in multiple testing devices."

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