Opera 7 for Windows Changelogs

Changelog for Opera 7.20 Beta 7 for Windows

Document and page layout

• Implemented BiDi support
• Fine-tuning for speed in page rendering & JavaScript
• Use label property on multi line edits to disable unwanted popup menus and selection possibility
• Removed caption for image documents
• Get locale from OS and use corresponding code page
• Support "list-style-type" value "decimal-leading-zero"
• Bottom margin fix plus optimizations
• Use smaller bullets in handheld mode
• Various updates and improvements for handheld mode
• Implemented <marquee>
• Implemented <blink>
• % height on tables
• Fix for not collapsing leading whitespace after floats
• Skip only one line break at the beginning of a text area
• Single line forms text color should now be set correctly
• ISINDEX fixes
• Spatial navigation highlighting fix

Protocols and data flow

• New URL scheme supported: data (RFC 2397)
• Support for encoding unrepresentable characters in output as HTML entities (for use in forms)
• Changed default Accept header: "application/xml" instead of "application/xhtml"
• Accept header change ("XHTML+XML" and "XHTML")
• Removed Send charset to validator
• Added experimental support for IPv6
• Added the preference

  [Adv User Prefs]
  Force Winsock2 API=1

  to force Opera to use the Winsock 2 API when available, even if the presence of dialups would normally have prevented it

Images and animation

• Enabled synchronized animations
• GIF animation fixes
• Improved image display speed

Plug-ins

• Various fixes

Hotlist

• Fixed a re-parenting problem in the hotlist that would result in lost bookmarks/contacts/notes: Moving a parent folder into a child folder
• Do not place a copy of a bookmark/contact in trash when CUT'ing it
• Show an error dialog box if a hotlist list could not be saved to file
• Fixed a sort sync problem (hotlist vs bookmark menu)
• Fixed a bookmark parser problem that prevented old bookmark files (pre version 6) from being imported
• Do not use 'BASEURL=' but 'URL=' in ie-explorer favorites import
• Fixed a save-selected-as problem. The saved items would be out of sync with the selected if the list was sorted

Panels

• Context menu support in Window panel
• Pressing Enter/Return will now activate the selected page in Windows panel
• Show an archive icon for files with extension 'gz' in Links panel
• Clear Links panel when closing a window (use lock if you want to keep them around)
• Enabled drag and drop within the Windows panel
• Fixes to URL handling in Notes panel

Toolbars and menus

• New "Closed" menu under the "Window" menu on the main menu bar listing the 100 last closed windows
• Added support for bolded menu items
• Improved the algorithm that assigns accelerators to a popup menu entries. It could make duplicates depending on the menu structure
• Added context menu support (activated from keyboard) in hotlist toolbar
• Added find in page to "Customize toolbar" dialog box
• Added a "Clear" button that can be used to erase contents of the address entry field. Use "Customize toolbar" dialog box to activate it
• Support for opening a page at a specified index in the page bar. Enhances drag and drop functionality
• Move keyboard focus to document when pressing Esc in search dropdown, zoom dropdown and search edit fields
• Let "Compose" from document popup menu use the mailto address of the clicked link
• Page cycler popup window will now expand into a new column when needed
• Support for toolbar extender in page and personal bar. Enable "Show extender" in the page and personal bar context menus to use it.
• Proper enable/disable handling of "Add all to bookmarks"
• Disable Copy and Cut menu entries for edit fields that contain a password (the Copy and Cut handling itself was already disabled)
• Fixed overflow problem in progress bar for large documents (percent value became negative, or just wrong in general)

Dialogs

• Fixed a number of mime type problems regarding download dialog handling
• Added support for confirmation when closing all pages or closing all but active page
• Append addresses that are entered from the "Go to" dialog box (F2) to the typed history list
• Added a "Minimize" button to the JavaScript console
• Show image file name (excluding path) in image property dialog caption
• New settings in Preferences dialog
  1. Load default (fallback) language file when changing UI language [Languages]
  2. Give page background color to documents when updated. No longer required to restart to see the change [Page style]
  3. Added option to style forms and/or scrollbars [Page style]
  4. Added "Smooth scrolling" option [Windows]
  5. Added "Open new page next to active page" option [Windows]
  6. Added option to tune delay before page is updated [Windows]
  7. Simplified interface for setting up trusted protocols and external programs [Programs and paths]
• Added "Pass web address directly to application" checkbox. Activate in "File type" dialog box

Mouse, keyboard and shortcuts

• Ctrl+Alt+Z available as shortcut for reopening most recently closed page
• Fix for entering special characters into edit fields while at the same time supporting various shortcuts. Differentiate between the special AltGr key and the left Control+Alt key combo, so that it is now possible to press AltGr+some key for special characters, but also Alt+Control+same key to produce a shortcut instead
• Let special forward mouse buttons try fast forward if no normal forward
• Support for function keys F13 to F20

Actions

• Added "Open background image" action
• Close page action returns false if nothing to close (makes it possible to do "Close page | Exit" kind of actions)
• Moved handling of "Clear disk cache", "Clear visited history" and "Clear typed in history" actions to allow shortcut support
• "Maximize frame" shall always open in the same page
• Added support for symbolic "COMMA" and "SEMICOLON" tags for use in shortcut files

Drag and drop (DnD)

• Added support for disabling drags. The option must be set in opera6.ini

    [User Prefs]
    Enable Drag=3 (default)
    1=links
    2=bookmarks
    3=links and bookmarks

• It is now possible to drag links from the mail view and the web panels

Privacy and security

• Added Actalis Root Certificate
• Improved Server Manager dialog. Now possible to press Delete on a server item and the most logical things will happen, depending on context:
  • Server and associated cookies are removed
  • Server and associated wand logins are removed
  • Server and both cookies and logins are removed
  • Server is reset to default cookie filter
• Changed Trusted protocol handling to also check URLs that do not use "://" in the URL, only checks for ":" before checking against the list of trusted protocols
• Adjusted security password policy: Minimum 6 characters and either
  1. At least one alphabetic character and one non-alphabetic character, or
  2. At least one character from a non-western european character set (specifically: not Latin-1)
• On non-file/non-javascript URLs we remove the %XX escaping for "." and "/" in the path component of the URL and processes all resulting "/./" and "/../" segments, not just the unencoded ones. This is done in order to fix a cookie path processing vulnerability that also requires certain XSS vulnerabilities serverside to be successful.
• Manually setting authentication method should overrule reported CAPA capabilities.

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

• Initial support for mail export to mbox format added for Access points/views
• Improvements to the internal spam filter
• Make sure internal spam filter never is applied to news messages or outgoing mail
• Implemented new authentication-system in NNTP. Added support for CRAM-MD5
• Added RFC2231 support
• Remove self when selecting "Reply All"
• Progress should show totals when multiple accounts have same status
• Toggling between list, message and split view in mailer. Double-click e-mail will open the mail in new window
• If IMAP server does not give an AUTH capability, try all supported ones
• Allow composing an e-mail to multiple receivers by selecting "Compose" on a folder in the contact list
• Don't fetch/send messages when in offline mode
• Messages are now html, not xml
• Let user choose between deleting messages or just remove them from view in the warning/info dialog
• Added counter to "Trash"
• Support for showing only mail belonging to specified account - dropdown in Hotlist, or available from "Mail > Show account"
• Support for account categories. Set category under "General" tab in account properties (Mail > Manage accounts.. dialog). Also available from dropdown in Hotlist
• Support for hiding mail in custom views from other views (properties, "Filter" tab)
• Disable account dropdown from Mail > Show account
• Regexp filter support, see The Regex Coach - interactive regular expressions
• Improvements to authentication and auto selection of authentication methods; support for POP3 CAPA
• IMAP fixes
• Added sorting of the mail access menu
• Not show newsgroup messages in Unread by default
• Made mail view title into a button (will soon show menu to select other access point); makes it possible to change mail view without hotlist open
• Adding dropdown menu for selecting M2 view from the mail window
• Easy way to add filter to an existing view (filter on address or subject)
• Initial support for mail export to mbox format added
• Proper separator in search dropdown box and account selector
• Possible to undo/redo (Ctrl z/y) the actions of marking mail as read/unread or delete/undelete of mail.
• Save active account information across sessions
• Save mail view mode.. split or list
• Regexp filter support in M2
• Option to hide messages from a certain folder from other folders (marking the messages in that folder as "hidden")
• Fixes to only showing mail/news accounts, preparing for hiding content of a view from other views (mail filtering)
• Added Account selector in mail panel (can be hidden from Mail > Show accounts)
• Added emptying trash as a status-message in M2
• Basic support for RFC2449 (POP3 CAPA). Operamail should now work with AUTOSELECT POP authentication.
• Open a message box asking about entering online mode if checking mail in offline mode.
• Improved support for RFC2646, and added support for Unicode Standard Annex #14, "Line Breaking Properties"

Wand

• Various fixes
• Auto-login with wand even if there is no username

Voice

• Added "speech" media type with "aural" as alias
• Implemented handling of voice-family according to CSS2 aural spec
• Implemented parser support for most of CSS3 speech

Kiosk mode

• Kiosk mode support has been reintroduced
• Visit kiosk information for more information

Miscellaneous

• Updated Help files
• Added method to check for available upgrade of Opera
• Allow fast forward before page is completely loaded
• Fixed redirection of Automatic Proxy Configuration scripts
• Fix for launching external source viewer using quotes
• Fix for unreliable menu highlighting
• Added code to detect if there are dialup connections configured for the system
• Added possibility to force garbage collection from the Java console
• Support for not displaying page address in window title by using an opera6.ini setting:

    [User Prefs]
    Show Address In Caption=0|1 (1 is default)

More information

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