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Opera 10.20 goes alpha!

By Bazyli Zygan. Tuesday, 24. November 2009, 15:40:34

After having released our final version of Opera Unite, we are proud to present you with the next level of Web applications for your desktop. Just a short while ago, we have released a Labs version, previewing our new approach to widgets: Opera Widgets are now first-class citizens in your computer, being accessible from the same place as other applications and providing the chance to develop desktop applications only once, running in any operating system.

We have listened to your feedback after the first Labs release. Improvements are already in the pipeline to enhance the experience of Opera Widgets within the browser, but please share all your comments and suggestions to help us make an even better product for you.

Please note that this release includes only changes related to Opera Widgets. There are no other changes in the browser functionality.

Go ahead, try it!

WARNING: This is a development build: It contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

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Opera Widgets for Desktop Labs release

By Remigiusz Bondarowicz. Thursday, 15. October 2009, 12:28:13

desktop, widgets

This is the first time I'm posting on the desktop team blog, so let me introduce myself quickly.
I'm Remigiusz Bondarowicz and I'm leading the desktop team in Poland.

For the last couple of months we have been working hard on bringing
Opera Widgets onto the next level … first-class web applications.

Today we posted an Opera Labs release , so you can already preview the result!

With the new Opera Widgets for Desktop we managed to break the dependency between widgets and the browser interface. From now on you don't have to have the Opera Browser open to run a widget. Furthermore, each widget runs in a separate process and integrates with the platform much better. We also give into your hands a new widget mode called “Application” so you can equip your widgets with the system default window decoration theme.
These are just some of the many new features and enhancements introduced with the new Opera Widgets for Desktop.
For a complete list of features please refer to the article Opera Desktop Widgets Evolved.

Warning:
This is a development snapshot: it may contain some bugs and incomplete features.

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New weekly

By olli. Tuesday, 2. May 2006, 15:08:53

Opera, WEEKLY, widgets

Hi
We have been busy after the Beta release as you can see.
There have been changes to the Widget UI to try to make it more easy to use.
We have removed the "widget mode" and the widget handle. The widgets now appear in their own panel and have their own menu entry.
When a widget is closed it will still be available in the widget panel. You can delete them from there.
This is still work in progress and some things are missing.

Changelog

Widgets UI changes:

Widgets are no longer displayed on a faded screen.
New widgets menu, providing options to add, open, and manage widgets.
New widget management window.

Other changes

Fixed handling of multiple changes to document.body.style.backgroundColor.
Fixed behavior of range.compareBoundaryPoints.
document.compatMode now gives 'BackCompat' for documents being rendered in quirks mode.
Improved XSLT error reporting.
Allowed custom headers to be displayed in the quick mail headers toolbar
Fixed some bugs in the MSI installer.
Improved handling of "Stop executing scripts on this page" tickbox on script dialogs.
Support copying attribute nodes in XSLT with copy-of.
Refuse invalid namespace declaration attributes.
User CSS is enabled by default in Author Mode.
Temporary downloads are now cleared when deleting cache.
Improved deleting of single messages from trash in IMAP accounts.
Fix for duplicated messages in IMAP.
Fixed SSL negotiation problem for servers that does not tolerate TLS 1.0 version in the record protocol of the client hello.
Added system tray icon on Unix.

Known issues

Opera might fetch some old feed entries double
Opera might not start in some Unix desktop environments when using a menu entry to start Opera: start it from conosle instead.
you need to use a clean toolbar setup to get the widget menu and the widget panel