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***mandy*** · 10-22-2005, 10:15 AM,

Opera 9.0 Technology Preview released

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-box in 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.

bargainbloodhound · 10-22-2005, 06:40 PM,

Just downloaded it. Opera 9.0 works when you're posting on this site. Smileydancing

(FYI: Opera 8.5 has problems when posting to this site. All other versions work fine)

rose · 10-22-2005, 07:12 PM,

No problems so far on Linux. I like the zoom feature but prefer Firefox.

Nat · 10-22-2005, 07:18 PM,

I downloaded the last version they released just a little while ago and I played around with it and although I do prefer Opera over IE, I still prefer Firefox over Opera. Either way I'm just glad to be away from IE.

***mandy*** · 02-06-2006, 01:37 PM,

Opera is scheduled to release the 2nd preview version on 7 February with added support for Widgets.

Quote: Opera Software on Tuesday plans to release a second preview version of Opera 9, the next version of its namesake Web browser.

For the first time, the new version will include support for so-called widgets, Opera representative Thomas Ford said. Widgets are essentially small browser windows that display information taken from the Internet on a user's desktop. The notion is similar in concept to the widget idea that Apple Computer uses in the Dashboard feature of Mac OS X.

Additionally, Opera's latest preview will include support for BitTorrent downloads

full article: http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6035227.html?part=rss&tag=6035227&subj=news

bargainbloodhound · 02-08-2006, 04:18 AM,

[quote author=mandy link=topic=928.msg8922#msg8922 date=1139233073]
Opera is scheduled to release the 2nd preview version on 7 February with added support for Widgets.
[/quote]

Windows:
changelog http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/w90p2.html
download http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/o90p2_8212.exe

MAC:
changelog: http://snapshot.opera.com/mac/m90p2.html
download http://snapshot.opera.com/mac/o90p2_3216.dmg

UNIX/Linux
changelog http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/u90p2.html
download http://snapshot.opera.com/unix/9.0-Preview-2

***mandy*** · 06-21-2006, 08:44 AM,

Opera 9.0 finally released:

Quote:Opera 9 is now available for download! Take a look at the future of Web browsing with the new stuff in Opera 9, including: widgets, BitTorrent support, content blocking, tab preview, source viewer and much more.

http://my.opera.com/welcome%20to%209/blo...dml/306342
downloads: http://www.opera.com/download/