Changelog for Opera 7.10 beta 1 for Unix

Opera version 7.10 beta 1 is now available for download.

Changelog

Opera 7.10 beta 1 for Unix has the following changelog:

Opera's new rendering engine (also known as "Presto")

• Support for page/document reflow
• Support for DOM (Document Object Model) level 2
• Support for dynamic HTML
• Extended CSS2 support, including e.g. styling of form elements
• 100% ECMAScript support
• Improved HTML 4.01 support
• Complete WML 1.3 and 2.0 support

See the Opera specifications for more details.

M2, Opera's new e-mail and news client

• Automatically generated access points, a revolutionary method of viewing and organizing e-mail
• Support for SMTP authentication
• Support for news servers with password authentication
• Integrated spam filter
• E-mail import
  • Eudora
  • Outlook Express
  • Netscape, versions 6/7
• Account wizard helps users set up e-mail and news accounts
• Possible to label messages, which makes messages easily accessible
• Support for POP3, IMAP, and ESMTP
• Support for threaded display of mailing lists
• Quick reply can send a reply without opening a compose window
• Pressing compose has the following possibilities:
  • When in a newsgroup: will automatically fill in the Newsgroups header
  • In a mailing list: fill in the mailing list as To: header
  • In a contact: view the contact address.
• It is possible to rename any access point, also rename e.g. Unread to Today (if that's your favorite way of viewing e-mail)
• It is possible to see e-mail from the day, week, month, last 3 months, year, or forever
• M2 will compress mailboxes automatically (see below)
• Reply and QuickReply can strip quote levels automatically
• Support for canceling usenet messages
• Use the forms multiline font for e-mail compose window so it can be changed from Opera preferences
• New options in mailbox menu View > Display:
  • Automatically mark messages as read after [x] seconds (only active in views where read messages are shown)
  • "Suppress external embeds" (defaults to "On" like previous versions of Opera, to prevent spam-verification)
• When using "Mark all as read" on an access point, M2 will only mark messages as read that are actually visible in the access point (not hidden newsgroup messages for instance)
• Space bar navigation. Space bar is page down. After reaching the bottom of the message, mark it as read and go to the next unread message. If there are no more unread messages, go to the next normal read message.
• M2 remembers sorting of e-mail messages between sessions
• Columns in the message list can be resized
• Improved status indication
• Keyboard navigation: F7 focuses Hotlist panel, F8 focuses message list, F9 focuses message view
• "Inherit filter from parent" added to filters, limits filtering to messages contained in the parent view (for nested views)
• IMAA-support (solves problems with Unicode in incoming from addresses)
• Changing from "Folders" to "Views" in personal access points to avoid confusion; "Copy to" is changed to "Show in"

For more information about M2, please refer to the M2 tutorial.

User interface features

• New MDI/SDI combination gives users the best of two worlds by allowing surfing in both MDI or SDI, with tabs (or even a combination) without restarting Opera
• Extended and vastly improved drag-and-drop support
  • Rearrange or move toolbar items using drag-and-drop customization
  • Move bookmarks, tabs, and MDI pages between SDI windows
  • Open or save any page link, or make it a desktop shortcut
  • Rearrange the address, search, and zoom fields
• Menu items can be moved, added, or removed by editing "menu.ini"
• Support for one-click download-and-install skinning
  • If the server returns content-type "application/x-opera-skin" and the file has "zip" extension, Opera will download and install the skin directly
• Color schemes can be selected from the view menu, and new schemes can be added by editing the "menu.ini" file
• Page bar replaces MDI window bar
• User mode address-bar icon has a drop-down menu that lets you choose alternative ways to view a Web page
• New 3D buttons
• Enhanced alphablended effects
• Introduced FastForward for quick navigation to the next most likely Web page
• Double-click will select the full URL in Address bar
• View > Encoding will change encoding immediately
• Progress line added
• Status field now draggable
• "Paste and go" added to the address field context menu
• Minimized pages are now hidden
• Minimizing a page activates the next one
• Middle button click closes a page tab
• Users can drag folders on the Personal bar while pressing Ctrl, or if the "Customize toolbars" dialog is open
• Added a cookie manager
• Added a Wand manager
• Added Notes panel to the Hotlist, to store text snippets easily. Text on a webpage copied directly to a note (Copy to note, Ctrl+Shift+C) becomes a special web note. Double clicking the note opens the original web page. The lower pane is a text field where you can edit the selected note real-time. No saving is needed.
• Added Page info panel to the Hotlist
• Improved FastForward function
  • Everything is now defined in fastforward.ini
  • FastForward can now be used as a "slide show" on galleries, like http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/
  • When spacing to the bottom of page, invoke FastForward
• Added .shtml as extension for HTML documents in addition to .htm and .html, since shtml is commonly used by web servers
• It is now possible to change view style of bookmarks, both in the Hotlist and in the Bookmark manager dialog
• Support for an alternative Ctrl+tab mode
• Export bookmarks file as HTML
• Enhanced tooltips for bookmarks and Page bar tabs, also status bar text shown
• Added Rewind button to jump back quickly. Return to manually entered addresses, a previously visited server when a link has gone off-site, or the first URL loaded, in the current window.
• Support for downloading setup files for menus and keyboard shortcuts. If the server returns content-type "application/x-opera-configuration-menu" or "application/x-opera-configuration-keyboard" or "application/x-opera-configuration-mouse" and the file has the "ini" extension, Opera will download and install the menu, keyboard or mouse gestures setup directly
• The "Go to" dialog (F2) fills in the last used address
• Show minimized pages if the page bar is off
• Various fixes for floating hotlist
• Support for opening session files (win files) from the Hotlist and the address bar
• Progress bar:
  • Is now skinable
  • Options for location of progress bar
• Option to open pages as 1) Always maximized, 2) Remember last size/position, 3) Always cascade
• A clock can be added to toolbars (from the Customize toolbars dialog)
• New mouse gestures: right+Up for FastForward and left+Down for Rewind

Hotlist features

• New floatable download and transfer manager, with drag-and-drop support
• Bookmarks can be shown as panels
• History is implemented as a panel
• E-mail manager
• Hotlist can float or dock either left or right
• Single-click opening of bookmarks can be enabled in the "opera6.ini" file by changing the "Hotlist Single Click=0" setting in the "[HotListWindow]" section
• New links panel
  • Shows links for active window
  • Panel can be "locked" to keep the links
  • Drag and drop and quick download
  • Quick-find filter
  • Detect images/music, etc and give them distinct icon
• New Contacts panel
• Rearrange, Show, or Hide panels at will

More features

• Introduced the Wand, a password and form manager
  • Wand shortcut is available from text areas
  • Enabled use of security password in the Wand
• Installer supports both multiple user accounts (profile strategy) and single-user installation, i.e. Opera can install with separate settings for each user on Windows NT/2000/XP
• Press Shift+F11 to enable small-screen mode, which emulates a hand-held (small-screen) device running Opera
• Support for multiple user style sheets, including 100% CSS-made text browser, that can be applied to any Web page
• New JavaScript console can be opened from "Window > Special > JavaScript console"
• Opera's new session manager lets you choose between (multiple) saved sessions from the start-up dialog
• Opera's FTP client supports the EPLF directory format as well as resume download "guessing"
• Added a 14-day banner free period
• Start-up speed optimization
• Added support for printing during print preview
• Added support for the HTTP Content-Location header
• Added a preference setting to control whether the JavaScript console is auto-created on encountering the first error
• Added quick download to normal link menus
• The Transfer panel now contains two columns, where the last toggles between filesize and progress
• Preferences dialogs improved
• Various improvements to the Wand (save for page or entire server)
• Added a "Manage contacts" dialog
• Improved bookmark import
• The new "Setup manager" offers a choice of skins and toolbars on the first run of Opera

Accessibility and usability

• Support for alternate style sheets
• Built-in accessibility user style sheet
• Move focus to page elements with Shift+arrow keys
• Support for access keys on Web pages using Shift+Esc with access key
• Mouse wheel now affects what is under the cursor, not necessarily what has keyboard focus
• New navigation bar supports page/document navigation defined using link tags
• Keyboard shortcuts for all actions can be customized (added, removed, or modified) in "input.ini", and Opera even supports shortcut sequences
• Dynamic on-the-fly generation of access keys in menus
• Press Shift+Tab to get out of compose window
• Shortcut for "Close all but active", Ctrl+Alt+W
• Paste and go
  • Pressing Ctrl+D will use clipboard URL to go to new Web page (replaces F8, Ctrl+V, Enter sequence)
  • Also works if focus is set to the Address field or a search field
  • Added to the Address field context menu
• Pressing the down arrow in a single line edit field (in forms for example) will now open a dropdown menu with personal info and all notes. Similiarly, pressing down in the To, Cc and Bcc fields in the message compose window opens the same kind of menu as pressing the To, Cc and Bcc buttons.
• Added user controlled scaling of skin images
• New keyboard shortcuts: Shift+X and Shift+Z for FastForward and Rewind. Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+9 focuses the Hotlist panels in position 1 to 9.

Miscellaneous

• Global setting-file location changed from Windows directory to opera.exe directory -- used to include new settings added by the installer
• Support for accepting requested pop-ups only
• Support for favicon and icon files
• Improved "Send link in e-mail", which supports the RFC1738 format
• Updated "Identify as MSIE" version number from 5.5 to 6.0, and added keyboard shortcuts
• Status bar is off by default, and tooltip for link addresses is on by default
• DOCTYPE switching enabled (see separate document for details)
• Imported OpenSSL v0.9.7
• Help function
  • Files are updated
  • New layout
  • Better support for OperaShow
  • The help will now open in an ordinary browser window
  • Table of contents added
  • Help function makes full use of the Navigation bar
  • Added support for "opera:/help/" for direct access to help files
• :hover and :active now only apply to links (as in, hover and/or active without any other selector)
• Support for actions in bookmark folders
• Fixed a hang on pages that use percentage height on replaced content in tables
• Plugins: avoid JavaScript url loading when JavaScript is switched off
• Made it possible to tab to the Hotlist selector
• Fix for @media handheld (which can be used to override SSR)
• Fix for accepting lowercase only tags in XHTML
• A number of crash fixes
• A number of focus fixes

Changelogs after Beta 2

• M2 will compress mailboxes automatically
  • If a mailbox uses more than 25% of unnecessary disk space, remaining messages are moved to the currently active mailbox and cleared from the old one
  • This happens right after trash is emptied (if needed)
• Drag-and-drop move between IMAP folders implemented
• Reply and QuickReply can strip quote levels automatically
• Added support for cancelling usenet messages
• Sound alert for new e-mail works
• Use the forms multiline font for e-mail compose window so it can be changed from Opera preferences
• Opera will automatically fill in correct values for OperaMail accounts, including SMTP authentication, if "smtpx.operamail.com" is kept as server
• Activated new download dialog
• Made the Wand shortcut available from text areas
• Enabled use of security password in the Wand
• Added support for full name in personal information pop-up menu list
• Double-click will select the full URL in Address bar
• View > Encoding will change encoding immediately
• Progress line added
• Status field now draggable
• "Paste and go" added
• Shortcut added for "Close all but active" Ctrl+Alt+w (added to Page bar context menus)
• Minimized pages are now hidden
• Minimizing a page activates the next one
• Middle button click closes a page tab
• Imported OpenSSL v0.9.7
• The account wizard is opened if user attempts to compose, check, or send messages and no account is present
• Support for SDI open in background
• SDI "new" gesture will open new window (not new page)
• Speed column in transfer window is not reset after transfer is done

More information

• 6.12 changelog
• Opera specifications
• Opera features