Opera Mini™ Developer Resources

This page is a developer resource for anyone wanting to find more out about Opera Mini development, ie developing your web sites so they work great in Opera Mini as well as other browsers, and leveraging some of Opera Mini's great unique features. At the moment, we have a selection of informational articles to help you out, but this page will grow in the future, with tutorials and reference sections being added ASAP. Keep checking back for more updates!

Articles

Opera Mini request headers

Opera Mini 4 uses various custom HTTP headers, in addition to the standard ones — this article tells you what they are, and what you can do with them.

Differences between Opera Mini 3 and 4

This article explains the main differences between Opera Mini 4 and the previous version (3.x) in terms of standards support, etc.

Safe Media queries

With mobile and desktop browsers having such varying support for media queries, using them effectively across browsers/platforms can be difficult; here we explore a solution to this issue.

How to serve the right content to mobile browsers

This article looks at the different methods available to you for serving appropriate content to mobile devices, along with caveats to watch out for.

Designing and Developing mobile web sites in the real world, part 1

This two-part article series presents two real case studies, exploring the issues faced, and how they were overcome. Other topics include standards support, identifying mobile users, and server-sniffing.

Designing and Developing mobile web sites in the real world, part 2

Part 2 of the article described above

Evolving the Internet on your phone

This article covers Opera Mini 4's standards support in greater detail, and gives some useful design tips.

Show in Opera Mini bookmarklet

You can add the following JavaScript to your browser toolbar as a bookmarklet, a handy link that will display your currently open web page in the Opera Mini simulator. Just bookmark this link:

Show in Opera Mini

Opera Mini Demo

Opera Mini demo

To see Opera Mini in action or to check your Web page on a small screen, use the Opera Mini live demo.

Meet the community

Voice your opinion, share experiences and seek answers in the dedicated Opera Mini forum.

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