Anigozanthos

A new toy to play with! Lots of bells, whistles, and shiny things to poke and prod!

Two-and-a-half years ago (wow, is it that long ago? ) I posted my Opera 10 Wish List. Many things have already been ticked off the lists. Most haven't.

CSS

• border-radius: NO
  
• text-shadow: YES
  
• rgba/hsl/hsla: YES
  
• overflow-x/y: YES
  

75% - Pass

M2 (Opera Mail)

• HTML composition: YES
  
• Delete attachments: NO
  
• Newsfeeds in panel: NO
  
• PGP/GPG encryption: NO
  
• Newgroup binary decoding: NO
  
• Improved threading: YES
  

33% - Fail

Other

• Roaming profile: YES (mostly, Opera Link is a very good start)
  
• Download manager: NO
  
• Torrent sub-files: NO
  
• DOM Inspector/JS debugger: YES
  
• SVG as IMG: YES
  
• MathML: YES (it's not fully supported, but it's useful)
  
• XBEL bookmarks: NO
  
• Improved form filling: NO
  
• Default native skin: NO
  
• Default Go button: NO
  
• Drop-down indicators: NO
  

27% - Fail

A little under one-and-a-half years ago, I followed that up with five more wishes:

• Auto updates: YES
  
• Skin/widget/panel/userjs updates: NO
  
• BT UPnP+NAT traversal: NO
  
• Plugin assistance: NO
  
• Drop-down indicators: (duplicate from above)
  

25% - Fail

Total: 40% - Fail Not too good.

On balance, however, a couple of the items are big ones that have been asked for by a vast number of people: HTML email composition and automatic updates. Most of the rest of my wishes are smaller items requested by fewer people.

One very welcome addition not among my wishes is the inline spellchecker. Currently, the alpha includes a US English dictionary in the installer. However, I don't see that has being a generally feasible distribution method, unless, of course, Opera decide to return to a vast number of language-specific installers. I'd much rather see Opera distributed without any dictionaries, then have an install-on-demand system, preferably through download URLs to Opera's own servers.

I was thinking about producing a new wishlist, but there are enough NOs listed above that I don't see any point in adding more! Who knows? Opera are still working on version 10, maybe the beta will have some more items ticked off?