Documentation

Opera is famous for its speed, small size, security, customization and standards-support. These documents allow for a look behind the user interface, and supply advice for changing files and advanced settings.

W3C

Specifications

Opera prides itself in supporting all major Web standards currently in use, including CSS 2.1, XHTML 1.1, HTML 4.01, WML 2.0, ECMAScript, DOM 2 and SVG 1.1 tiny.

Web standards supported in Opera

W3C

Changelogs

The changelogs detail the changes made from previous releases.

W3C

Banner ads

Find out more about Opera's banner advertisement implementation.

Note that banner ads are only used in unregistered versions prior to Opera 8.5 (when all ads were removed).


W3C

Plug-ins and file formats