Fatal's Journal

Daniel Goldman: "What would you like to see in the next Opera desktop browser?".

My wishes as developer and designer:

Killing most regressions since Opera 6

Killing even more bugs

Improved source editor:

• line numbering (w/o line numbering it’s just useless in most cases)
  
• improved coloring of source (HTML, JS, CSS, XML)
  
• find & replace
  
• word wrap
  
• tab size setting

JS debugger

Decent DOM inspector

Even more support for standards:

• all CSS 3 selectors with negations
  
• overflow-x / overflow-y from CSS 3 Box module
  
• downloadable fonts
  
• Support document() in XSLT
  
• XBL

My wishes as user:

Killing regressions and bugs

• bugs in zoom mode
  
• where are BAK files in Opera 9?
  

M2 improvements

• HTML formatting (hate it, but sometimes need just emphasize some text)
  
• filter messages to Sent folder (Gmail POP)
  
• IMAP improvements
  

Newsfeeds improvements

• folders (subfolders)
  
• keywords and nicknames for feeds (with ability to search)
  
• When you have selected Newsfeeds in panel, you should see all feeds, with ability to see only unreaded
  

Per site preferences improvements

• zoom
  
• render modes (fit to width, small screen)
  
• encoding
  

Content blocker improvements

Search improvements

• Google suggest in search field
  
• search with default search engine if URL not start with http, ftp, https, etc…
  
• ability to apply keyboard shortcuts for all searches and translations
  
• highlight all checkbox in Find dialog
  

In Windows version: REAL native top menu bar behavior (ie, no selected coloring on hover).

Browser stuff sync

• bookmarks
  
• contacts
  
• news feeds
  

Some Undo command for closed window (hate when I’m doing this!)

Save as session only current window option

NTLM improvements (will see if it improves in 9.01 for me)

Drag n’ drop in Windows between applications

Rich text copy & paste

Print with page styles and graphic (not just unformatted text)

Update notification for skin, widgets, etc…

Widgets

• new version notificsation / update
  
• zoom should scale images smothly
  

Accessibility

• ability to select multiple options in select fields with keyboard only
  

More form completion improvements

Return back “bookmark star” and notes (make it documented and put them as available buttons at least) http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=123713

Saving a page:

• saving with original filename, not 8.3 DOS format

Great (literally also) post with wishes for Opera 10 by ROBO Design.