Opera 9, Preview 1

21 October 2005 00:52

I mentioned just a couple of posts ago how I found Opera 9 in my logs. I didn’t expect anything to be released in a good while yet, but once again I’m pleasantly surprised. Today (or yesterday, considering it’s past midnight already) a preview ofOpera 9 was released. It’s still in the early stages of development, but there are some nice things the developers just ached to show us so far: ;)

  • support for XSLT, Canvas 2D, and Web Forms 2.0
  • rich-text editing on Web pages
  • site-specific preferences
  • a new IMAP back-end
  • access to Opera’s preferences via opera:config

For a full overview, see the changelog and download links for Windows, Unix and Mac

Of course, by releasing this preview Opera invites users to discuss it in the forums - they are particularly interested in feedback about:

  • speed and stability
  • IDing as Opera by default
  • rendering regressions since Opera 8.5
  • problems connecting to secure sites using TLS 1.1

One thing any have looked forward to, are the site specific preferences. Who’s better to tell us about those and more than the Opera guys themselves, in their blogs? Such as HÃ¥vard, Peter Karlsson, Rijk, Tim Altman, …

I could go on, but I’m sure you want to go test it yourself, as soon as possible. I will, at least. So go ahead! ;)

2 Responses to “Opera 9, Preview 1”

[...] Пока только для тестов, не стоит устанавливать его в уже существующую директорию. Краткий … Opera 9, Preview 1 from Random Thoughts on Fri, 10/21/2005 - 12:56am I mentioned just a couple of posts ago how I found Opera 9 in my logs. I didn’t expect anything to be released in a good while yet, but once again I’m pleasantly surprised. Today (or yesterday, considering it’s past midnight already) … By Tim at 10/20/2005 - 5:00pm | Opera [...]

[...] A technical preview of Opera 9 has been available for download for a while now, teasing us with some of what we can expect. Many have downloaded it,and use it as their primary browser (despite warnings from Opera that it’s an unfinished product, and as such do contain bugs.) But remember: This is a preview. A taste of what we can expect - not all of it. So, what more will we get? [...]

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