Thursday, March 01, 2007

SV Web Builders Event - World Premier of Opera with builtin video support

Attended SVWebBuilder meeting tonight at Yahoo offices in Sunnyvale. Great group, great energy, the tech group I've been looking for in the valley. Bess Ho is definitely a great organizer, dedicated volunteer like Navdeep Jhimb took care of all details.

It was called Browser War: Episode II - Attack of the DOMs .

It featured a panel by Chris Wilson Group Manager of IE from Microsoft, Mike Shave founder of Firefox and Hakon Wium Lie founder of Opera and CSS.

Mike and Chris were very personable and presented a pleasant evening while we waited for Hakon Wium Lie to reach after 22 hrs of flight from Europe.

I'll write again as I have lot of videos and the whole discussion is worth sharing.

Hakon dazzled us with an alpha preview of Opera showcasing his proposal to include videos in web browsers natively.

He also showed Opera on a coola $1K PC.

1 comments:

Gail DSilva said...

That was rather interesting :) However, I found this video less shaky and easier to watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKXomOLraXg&mode=related&search=