My Opera
The baby falcon is preparing for flight
By Haavardhaavard. Friday, November 28, 2008 7:28:15 PM
Hi everyone!
While you may have seen me around in the blogs and forums, this is my first blog post on the desktop team blog. My former team mates and I have in fact been working on the desktop product all along as a separate team, but now we have merged with the rest of the desktop developers and QA to form a new and even stronger (and bigger!) desktop team.
We know that you have been waiting to get your hands on Opera 10 (Peregrine), and I am happy to announce that we are planning to release the first alpha of Opera 10 in the near future. The new version is the result of hard work that has been going on since even before 9.5 was released, and we are finally ready to let it spread its wings and fly out into the real world.
I'm not going to reveal too many details today, but I do want to talk a bit about what you can expect.
Opera 10 will feature the new Presto 2.2 engine (Opera 9.x runs on Presto 2.1.x), and one of the main purposes of the first alpha is to get some real-world testing, so that even more bugs can be fixed. A huge number of bugs have been fixed already since Presto 2.1, and there are a lot of new things in here, including improved performance and standards compliance. We hope, no, we know that you will help us find even more bugs and areas of improvement.
In addition to an updated engine with new features of its own, we have worked hard on adding a few user-related features that we have noticed are frequently requested by the community. I think a lot of people will be pleased with these additions.
Opera 10 is finally coming, and you can expect improved performance as well as features that we know that a lot of people in the community have requested.
Tune in next week for more details.
While you may have seen me around in the blogs and forums, this is my first blog post on the desktop team blog. My former team mates and I have in fact been working on the desktop product all along as a separate team, but now we have merged with the rest of the desktop developers and QA to form a new and even stronger (and bigger!) desktop team.
We know that you have been waiting to get your hands on Opera 10 (Peregrine), and I am happy to announce that we are planning to release the first alpha of Opera 10 in the near future. The new version is the result of hard work that has been going on since even before 9.5 was released, and we are finally ready to let it spread its wings and fly out into the real world.
I'm not going to reveal too many details today, but I do want to talk a bit about what you can expect.
Opera 10 will feature the new Presto 2.2 engine (Opera 9.x runs on Presto 2.1.x), and one of the main purposes of the first alpha is to get some real-world testing, so that even more bugs can be fixed. A huge number of bugs have been fixed already since Presto 2.1, and there are a lot of new things in here, including improved performance and standards compliance. We hope, no, we know that you will help us find even more bugs and areas of improvement.
In addition to an updated engine with new features of its own, we have worked hard on adding a few user-related features that we have noticed are frequently requested by the community. I think a lot of people will be pleased with these additions.
Opera 10 is finally coming, and you can expect improved performance as well as features that we know that a lot of people in the community have requested.
Tune in next week for more details.
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Tamil # Friday, November 28, 2008 7:30:56 PM
Olihen # Friday, November 28, 2008 7:32:18 PM
cousin333 # Friday, November 28, 2008 7:33:13 PM
We'll be waiting anyway (what else could we do?). And I hope, that next week there'll be a Peregrine alpha, not just "other informations"...
setsutekh # Friday, November 28, 2008 7:33:47 PM
*drools*
Onecar # Friday, November 28, 2008 7:36:48 PM
The YeOKYeOK # Friday, November 28, 2008 7:44:38 PM
Cyro # Friday, November 28, 2008 7:45:28 PM
Can't wait until next week!
Maybe a Windows 64bit version, this time.
ColKilkenny # Friday, November 28, 2008 7:46:37 PM
Yes please! Finally!
Szőts Ákosszotsaki2 # Friday, November 28, 2008 7:47:16 PM
But it really lacks of information, by the way.
tenplus1 # Friday, November 28, 2008 7:47:17 PM
Immanis # Friday, November 28, 2008 7:47:18 PM
vpx # Friday, November 28, 2008 7:48:02 PM
Андрей Пановandrew3105 # Friday, November 28, 2008 7:49:02 PM
blackcaeser # Friday, November 28, 2008 7:49:30 PM
GnuPG-Support in M2, finally?
Or RegEx for the urlfilter.ini?
Those things would be very, very nice.
Gérard TalbotGTalbot # Friday, November 28, 2008 7:52:59 PM
> A huge number of bugs have been fixed already since Presto 2.1
Even bugs from this page
http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/Opera9Bugs/
There are about a dozen more at
http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/MSIE8Bugs/
eg: #55, #158, #159, #162, #163, etc.
Any chance for support for -o-background-origin and -o-background-clip ?
http://www.gtalbot.org/DHTMLSection/InteractiveCSS3BackgroundTests.html
Detection of mousewheel roll event (DOMMouseScoll)?
http://www.gtalbot.org/BugzillaSection/Bug189308_ScrollEvent.html
Regards, Gérard
Jim E. Lee, Jr.tech10171968 # Friday, November 28, 2008 8:00:20 PM
_Grey_ # Friday, November 28, 2008 8:02:27 PM
Will be awaiting some of those UI-related features/improvements.
And the engine changes, of course
lamarca lamarca # Friday, November 28, 2008 8:03:44 PM
kriko # Friday, November 28, 2008 8:15:35 PM
Andresandresruiz # Friday, November 28, 2008 8:17:55 PM
Few weeks ago, before you banned my account
I've a lot of expactations on Opera 10, I hope you be successful. All I want is Opera beeing used and loved for A LOT of normal people. not only techie Opera fans
Keiv M.KeMiSa # Friday, November 28, 2008 8:37:35 PM
Please let a GUI dialog for backing up mail and profiles and settings be one of the user requested features included in peregrine.
p.s. cookes and milk are too expensive to leave for someone clearly not starving.
love you.
Keldian.-Keldian # Friday, November 28, 2008 8:40:55 PM
wile-e-wonka # Friday, November 28, 2008 8:42:21 PM
"[W]e are planning to release the first alpha of Opera 10 in the near future."
and
"Tune in next week for more details."
But the "near future," when the alpha is planned to be released, is not necessarily next week; and the details we will all "tune in" for next week, may very well be a post much like today's, without a snapshot on the bottom.
Sorry to destroy your hopes, guys, I'm just sayin' because, you know, I don't want to raise my hopes up too high just to be disappointed next week. So I'm spreading the gloom.
Khaled KhalilKhaled-Khalil # Friday, November 28, 2008 8:44:10 PM
WIR ?
Hans Bendiksenhansbendiksen # Friday, November 28, 2008 8:44:49 PM
Sure hope that means on monday...
PeterGiraffePC # Friday, November 28, 2008 9:06:55 PM
arezey # Friday, November 28, 2008 9:08:29 PM
MSDousti # Friday, November 28, 2008 9:13:53 PM
1) OLE-enabled copy-paste: If I copy some text from Opera 10 and paste it onto MS Word, the formatting is preserved.
2) Non-modal windows: Windows like "Wand" must not be modal. See what FF3 does when you enter user/pass on a page and press login.
3) RegEx for the urlfilter.ini
4) The ability to write useful widgets, like those of FF's plugins: The plugins of FF integrate tightly into it, while Opera's widgets seem to run separately from it.
RicardoRicardoB # Friday, November 28, 2008 9:25:48 PM
illiad # Friday, November 28, 2008 9:26:40 PM
Originally posted by arezey:
you are right..theonehorst # Friday, November 28, 2008 9:26:49 PM
illiad # Friday, November 28, 2008 9:35:43 PM
Kyle Bakerkyleabaker # Friday, November 28, 2008 9:36:36 PM
HelleneAtheist # Friday, November 28, 2008 9:42:04 PM
Hypezor # Friday, November 28, 2008 9:47:19 PM
Still using libqt3-mt? :>
Well, in other terms, any particular news on opera 10 concerning Unix/linux ?
Erick Omar DelgadoDjehuty # Friday, November 28, 2008 9:51:18 PM
Dustin WilsonKhadgar # Friday, November 28, 2008 9:55:53 PM
Edgar P. NashNetegrof # Friday, November 28, 2008 10:04:21 PM
skye11 # Friday, November 28, 2008 10:18:19 PM
hope Opera 10.0 will include the features contantly requested by users
and perhaps even some pleasant new innovations
Igorigorditerni # Friday, November 28, 2008 10:24:01 PM
So finally we'll write html e-mails using Opera?
And what about acid3?
Ciao, Igor
SemZeraman # Friday, November 28, 2008 10:30:47 PM
Sami Olmariolmari # Friday, November 28, 2008 10:35:25 PM
I'm hoping that Opera will keep up with speed and ofcourse comply wiht all the newest webstandards out there. Ofcourse I'd like Opera to gain more users too...
Igorigorditerni # Friday, November 28, 2008 10:39:19 PM
Ferrisferrisnox # Friday, November 28, 2008 10:41:00 PM
Benjaminlesinfox # Friday, November 28, 2008 10:52:18 PM
SteelRealm # Friday, November 28, 2008 11:02:18 PM
I'm happy to see Opera 10 is on it's way to the people. Hoping for a lot from it, but I'm sure we won't be let down.
fernando823Fer84 # Friday, November 28, 2008 11:05:16 PM
Dear SANTA, I love Opera the way it is, but I'd like to see the following features in the next build... ;-)
-Increase of overall loading speed
-Less time to open
-Acid3
-Private mode browsing
-Real time writing corrector
-OLE-enabled copy-paste
-Auto-Updater
-Better drag&drop by default
-Allow to read wand stored passwords if global password has been set.
-Improved feel of real tab. (like same appearance of current tab and navigational bar, allow to drag complete tabs even outside the main window)
-Show only the part of the status bar that matters, and other tricks to increase free space (like Chrome)
-Allow 3x4 speed dial (16:9 screens) or something else to fill free space
-Auto-hide bar in full screen mode
-Allow resizing of text boxes
-Nicer icons
-Allow a LUA installation
Thankss!!!!
Martin RauscherHades32 # Friday, November 28, 2008 11:15:16 PM
I hope Opera Link is developed further... (Contact Sync
I'm very eager to see M3, or whatever it will be called.
(I think SpeedMail, just like SpeedDial, would be an (Opera-)appropriate name
Martin RauscherHades32 # Friday, November 28, 2008 11:18:39 PM
StelianLZ2SDC # Friday, November 28, 2008 11:25:48 PM