10-22-2005, 10:15 AM
Opera 9.0 Technology Preview released
Downloads: Windows , Linux/Solaris/FreeBSD , Mac
Downloads: Windows , Linux/Solaris/FreeBSD , Mac
Quote:Changes Since Opera 8.5
User Interface
* Enhanced pop-up blocker to detect more unwanted pop-ups.
* Added new message console for warnings and error messages.
* Added opera:config for managing preferences.
* 'Find' feature now highlights all matches when searching for text on the page.
* Added internal source viewer. Set 'Source viewer' preference to 'Opera' to use the internal source viewer. On new installs, the internal source viewer is enabled by default.
* Implemented tab locking. Right click on a tab and select 'Lock tab'. Individual tabs cannot be closed while they are locked.
* New bookmark icon in address bar.
* Fix to prevent key presses being lost after using Alt+Tab.
* Updated search.ini
o The file version number is now 7. All files with lower version numbers will be overwritten on upgrade.
o New shortcut 'a' for searching with answers.com.
* Changed keyboard shortcuts for closer cross-browser compatibility:
o Ctrl+T replaces Ctrl+N for opening a new tab.
o Ctrl+N opens a new browser window.
o Ctrl+D and Ctrl+Shift+D replace Ctrl+T and Ctrl+Shift+T, respectively, for adding pages to bookmarks.
o Ctrl+Shift+V can be used instead of Ctrl+D for paste-and-go.
Messaging and Newsfeeds
* Enabled new IMAP code.
* New account storage format. If you install over an existing profile, you will be prompted to convert all accounts into the new format. This will not require a re-index.
* Added support for Atom 1.0.
* External embeds are now always allowed in newsfeeds, and are not disabled when the "Surpress external embeds" preference is set.
* Fix to prevent chat windows going blank when redrawing from cache.
Security
* TLS 1.1 and TLS Extensions enabled by default.
* SSL v2 and weak encryption methods (56 bit and lower) are disabled by default. See our knowledgebase for more information.
* Upgraded crypto library to OpenSSL 0.9.8.
Please report problems accessing secure sites that worked in previous versions of Opera.
HTML
* Added support for Web Forms 2.0.
* Implemented support for canvas.
* Improved handling of the align attribute.
* Removed support for XML namespaces in HTML documents.
* Allowed negative numbers in numbered lists.
* Added support for xml:id.
* Added option to re-parse invalid XML documents as HTML after XML parsing has failed.
* Fix to prevent minimized boolean attributes from being ignored if they are followed immediately by a / character.
HTTP
* Changed default UserAgent string to identify as Opera.
* Fixes to prevent delays when using proxy servers.
* Added support for the HTTP Link header.
Scripting
* Added support for XSLT 1.0 and the XSLTProcessor constructor.
* Added support for XPath 1.0.
* Implemented designMode for rich text editing.
* Implemented Node.textContent property from DOM 3 Core.
* Added support for onreadystatechange events, and the readyState property.
* Implemented scripting support for canvas.
* Added window.getSelection, and associated methods.
* XMLHttpRequest returns the status code for the cached page if the request returns the cached page.
* Fix to allow scripts to override a CSS #double #id selector.
* Fix to prevent CSS generated content being duplicated when element contents are changed with scripts.
* Fix to reset scrolling as needed when removing content from an element with overflow.
Plug-ins
* Added Netscape Plug-in API extensions developed by browser and plug-in vendors.
* Fixed an issue when printing from Java.
Display
Acid2 fixes
* Several fixes for margin collapsing model.
* Prevented elements from being less than 0 pixels high.
* Create an anonymous table cell around tables inside an anonymous table row.
* Table backgrounds are rendered if the table has dimensions, but no contents.
* :before rules in CSS do not cause unrelated form elements to disappear.
* Margins correctly treated on elements with clear: that follow a float.
* Comments in strict HTML documents are treated as SGML comments.
* Intersection of borders compatible with reference rendering.
* Corrected use of :hover with no element selector.
* Overflow on the HTML element is applied to the viewport.
* Elements with overflow:hidden; can scroll to anchors within them.
Defaults
* Body element now uses margin instead of padding by default.
* UL/OL elements now use padding instead of margin by default.
* DD elements now have a smaller indent.
* Use default handheld font size for handheld stylesheets.
Images
* SVG support increased to partial SVG 1.1 basic.
Selectors
* Added support for CSS 3 attribute and UI selectors.
* Fix to allow combinations of + or *, with :active, :focus, and :hover selectors.
* Fix for combined :hover::after.
* Multiple :first-line fixes.
* :lang() selector no longer applies to xml:lang attributes.
* Improved error handling for nested {}, [], and () blocks.
* Selectors with invalid css identifiers are ignored.
* Improved handling of unicode escape characters in ID selectors.
* Backslash escapes allowed in ID selectors.
* Correctly treat semicolons in @-rules.
* Support media queries in @import rules.
Box, table, and inline
* Removed box model quirk (box-sizing:border-boxin quirks mode.
* Fixed display:inline; on table rows.
* Fixed percentage widths on button elements.
* Fixed default padding and border spacing on elements with display:table-cell;
* Fix to allow padding in TD and TH elements to detect mouse events and :hover.
* Fix for margin-top being mis-interpreted as padding-top.
Positioning
* Allowed positioned elements to appear in front of iframes and objects.
* Position and dimensions of absolutely positioned and fixed position elements are treated correctly when they are nested inside each other.
* Fix to allow float, position, and z-index to be combined.
* Absolutely positioned elements now take percentage widths relative to their parent container.
Lists and generated content
* Respect list-style even if 'none' is specified for list-style-image.
* List-style-image is now respected on :hover.
* content:attr() now works for 'style' attributes.
* Fixed margins of generated content for inline elements.
Background
* Prevented background color of pseudo elements propagating to parent element.
* Prevented background of html::before overriding background of html.
* Object iframes now accept transparent backgrounds.
Other display
* Fix to prevent fixed positioned elements from remaining visible when hiding them with display: none;
* Fix to prevent positioned content, hidden using overflow, from producing a scrollbar.
* Added support for quotes:none;
* Multiple bidi, decoration, forms and paged media fixes.
* Improved display of frames when 'Fit to window width' is enabled.
Miscellaneous
* Site-specific settings are now available as part of the site-specific ini settings. A User Interface for these settings is not yet available.
* Multiple stability fixes.
