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Opera 9.5 Coming

Wednesday, 11. June 2008, 13:40:55

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After almost two years in development cycle it looks like Opera 9.5 is finally reaching its Final milestone. While I can't say I am totally pleased with its BiDi support, I do praise it for the giant leap forward in that support since the 9.2x days.

Opera Link, Speed Dial, more new features, new technologies, better support for existing ones, many many many fixed bugs, better stability, perfomance and speed, a new skin (which I have come to love, although it still has some minor issue), and more (I'm sure we'll get the complete list soon enough). All of these make Opera 9.5 IMO a very good release, amongs a stiff competition from Firefox 3 and Safari. Each with its own set of weaknesses and strong points.

That said, there are unfortunatly new regressions in 9.5 compared to 9.2x in respect to BiDi, but also luckly threre are less regressions than new bugs or fixed bugs. :smile: I am sure that 9.5x, 9.6(?) and 10.0 will have more fixed BiDi bugs and also hopefully new things in store for us.

Here is for Opera 9.5, the best Opera release yet (can't please them all, of course)...!

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My Opera Community Website Design and RTL languages

Thursday, 20. March 2008, 07:29:29

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How long will RTL users must suffer here?
The RTL community here (those who use Hebrew and Arabic and such) is not a small group of people. Opera has a huge market out there that is just being ignored.

Okay, so you don't want to take it upon yourself just yet to convert the various pages (personal, group) and add BiDi support. Fine.

BUT FOR THE LOVE OF WHATEVER, AT LEAST ADD RTL SUPPORT FOR THE GODAMN GROUP FORUMS.
It is crippled. It is F***ing annoying and it doesn't make any of us want to write here.

And to think it is merely just adding scriptingly one flippin tag to the mark-up... But as always, excuses previle.

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Opera Mini 4 [beta]

Tuesday, 19. June 2007, 19:38:44

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Today marks the release of the beta version of Opera Mini 4. This is of special interest for me as one of its new features is BiDi support, which of course includes the Hebrew language.

This is a great day for Israeli Opera users as it means that support for our language is now coming to the mobile realm of Opera. Starting with Opera Mini but since its core engine is the same one to be used in future Desktop and Mobile versions of Opera, this means BiDi support is coming for Opera Mobile as well!

There are plenty of bugs and regressions, but this is fine and natural for a beta release.
I'm looking forward to test, report and enjoy this new support.

I would love if fellow Israeli users will begin their testing and report their findings at the Hebrew Group!

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Thank you Opera. :smile:

Related links:
http://mini.opera.com
Opera Mini Vs. iPhone
Opera Mini Demo Video

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