Opera Desktop Team

Weekly build

By olli. Friday, 3. March 2006, 16:19:32

WARNING: This build will frequently crash when using Flash.

This weekly build has some issues with Flash so we advice you do disable plugins if you want to use it.

The Unix/Linux builds now have a different build number system due to a new and improved build system.

Changelog:

Fix to make e-mail and news items display correctly when they are selected.
Improved BitTorrent disk cache.
DCC file transfers now displayed as a link in a private chat window.
Added support for onmousewheel events.
Fix for canvas gradients and blur.
.Improved behavior of offsetParent, offsetTop, and offsetLeft.
Script events now report correct keyCode for insert, delete, home, end, pause/break, scroll lock and num lock keys.
Added support for element.cssText.
Allowed self closing SCRIPT tags in HTML documents.
Fix for SRC attribute in atom feed summaries.
Allowed FTP downloading of files whose names contain colons ':'.
Experimental fix to allow downloading of files larger than 4GB.
~~Added [Network] Enable NTLM setting to toggle NTLM support.~~ Not hooked up yet

Multiple SVG improvements, including:

Implement word-spacing support.
Support 'clip' on 'symbol' elements.
Handle whitespace separation of lists.
'textLength' support.
Textselection improvements.
Fixed fallback for SVG images that are not displayed.

Download links:

Windows Build 8246
Macintosh Build 3245
UNIX Build 117

Weekly build, return of the Macintosh!…and one more weekly!

Comments

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ar1pe # 3. March 2006, 16:55

Thanks

kyleabaker # 3. March 2006, 17:00

downloading now, can't wait!

krusha # 3. March 2006, 17:01

Dnldnin' ;-)

macobas # 3. March 2006, 17:03

I think I'll skip this one. I have no issues with build 8238 and I don't want to tempt the flash gods.

Kildor # 3. March 2006, 17:03

but broken onformchange doesn`t fixed yet… And head|tail toolbars with many buttons broken if pagebar on left|right
PS:
"Allowed self closing SCRIPT tags in HTML documents."
tnx ;-)

PS: please, cleaned changelog, what changes in SVG and what — in whole browser?
Added support for onmousewheel events. — SVG or not?

ar1pe # 3. March 2006, 17:07

I can't print anything; not a single page (by pagenumber), not selection, not all. Tried to print changelog but crashes every time!

tarquinwj # 3. March 2006, 17:11

"but broken onformchange doesn`t fixed yet"

being looked into already

"Allowed self closing SCRIPT tags in HTML documents."

Not my favourite of fixes, since it is there for XHTML documents that are served as HTML, but not properly written with closing tags as required by the spec. However, authors incorrectly do this, so error handling needs to happen. At least it is unlikely to cause problems.

"please, cleaned changelog, what changes in SVG and what in whole browser"

Just Olli getting used to the blog system, should be better now

Kildor # 3. March 2006, 17:12

One more… link in «Added [Network] Enable NTLM setting to toggle NTLM support.» is broken (one unnecessary quote)
Tnx for making changelog more precise ;-)

olli # 3. March 2006, 17:16

Kildor: Thx fixed :-)

desmasiic # 3. March 2006, 17:24

Since 90% of the sites I visit have flash here and there (whether they need it or not is a different thing), I'll have to pass on this build. A problem though:

In build 8238, suddenly my RSS feeds stopped showing up. I can see them being updated, see the update message but when I click the update, no message shows up and I have to visit the site to read more.

Is this problem gone in current build? If yes, then I am more than happy to sacrifice flash viewing till next build... or just view those sites on Firefox

Dennis_Hawks # 3. March 2006, 17:26

@desmasiic
Yes, this issue is gone.
And why suddenly?
Didn't you read the known issues for the previous build?

PatentEater # 3. March 2006, 17:27

Hi!

Thanks for providing another weekly build.

I have a question regarding the linux builds: what's the difference between these two files?

opera-9.0-20060303.5-shared-qt.i386-en.rpm
opera-9.0-20060303.6-shared-qt.i386-en.rpm

And most of all, why are there no deb-packages?

aimzz # 3. March 2006, 17:29

Forum thread for this week:
Windows build 8246 - Mac build 3245 - UNIX build 117

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=127707

x666 # 3. March 2006, 17:32

did you pay attention on problem with editing post in forums like phpBB and others? changes made to post isn't displayed.

RSS feed issues:
- link http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/xxxxxxx points to blank page (just header)
~~- would be good if we can see author of post~~

gladly mail bug is fixed

Thanks for your amazing work!

burnout426 # 3. March 2006, 17:37

"Script events now report correct keyCode..."

Awesome!

Dennis_Hawks # 3. March 2006, 17:42

@x666
In Atom 1.0 feed for the comments you are able to view the comment author

And not in RSS 2.0 feed

towolf # 3. March 2006, 17:43

The new build system apparently forgot to spit out debs...

olli # 3. March 2006, 17:48

towolf: It's on the way up :-)

towolf # 3. March 2006, 17:50

merci

x666 # 3. March 2006, 17:53

@Dennis_Hawks: thanks, my bad

non-troppo # 3. March 2006, 17:56

To the JS / DOM hackers: can we do anything interesting with "Added support for element.cssText" that we couldn't do before?

sebt # 3. March 2006, 18:03

www.ebay.co.uk appears to be broken in this build.

It gets stuck while loading and Opera goes 100% CPU.

It appears Javascript related; disable javascript and it loads up OK. It seems that a number of sites are having this kind of javascript problem with Opera where it hangs partway through loading up a page and Opera goes 100% CPU (ie. www.mininova.org)

Seb

Dennis_Hawks # 3. March 2006, 18:04

@seb
Confirm.

sebt # 3. March 2006, 18:16

bug reported bug-198939@bugs.opera.com.

Seb

xErath # 3. March 2006, 18:18

"To the JS / DOM hackers: can we do anything interesting with Added support for element.cssText" that we couldn't do before?"

Probably that's sign that DOm 2 StyleSheets might be around the corner

http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Style/css.html#CSS-CSSRule

YtseJam # 3. March 2006, 18:24

The 'top 10' bar crash when pressing on link still happens. sigh.

Woifi # 3. March 2006, 18:24

@sebt: I also get 100 % CPU load on www.ebay.at
Disabling javascript helps too.
The same problem occurs on http://derstandard.at
The bug is even more severe than in the last build, since I cannot close the tab with the corresponding homepage.

skyluke # 3. March 2006, 18:28

Hello,

I beg you to add proper keyboard handling for dialogs to Opera soon! It's a real pity that it isn't possible to handle dialogs by keyboard in a useful fashion. Mostly only Tab and Space can be used - in opposition to Esc, Enter etc.
And, the biggest drawback: no support for normal shortcuts what so ever. E.g. pressing 'y' or 'Alt-y' to select the 'Yes' button, or more... that's annoying every time.

Thank you for the otherwise great browser,
skyluke

Icfu # 3. March 2006, 18:32

Enable Cookies=6 is automatically reset to Enable Cookies=0 on Opera start now.

I hope you'll bring back the cookie functionality of 8.5 soon: being able to reject all new cookies but still use those entered manually.

Back to the last build now, too bad.

If someone knows another workaround, please tell us. Thx.

Icfu

moises-l # 3. March 2006, 18:35

can you do userjs manager?

PatentEater # 3. March 2006, 19:16

@Woifi

I can confirm this. Though, in the last build I never observed this behaviour with regard to derstandard.at. That's why I went back to build 1670 (and I don't care about the e-mail display bug, because I don't use it).

Vladimyr # 3. March 2006, 19:21

If every build will contain a regression?
It looks like nowadays became a tendency :-(

FataL # 3. March 2006, 19:23

Web Forms: Repetition redrawing bug

tarquinwj # 3. March 2006, 19:25

"To the JS / DOM hackers: can we do anything interesting with "Added support for element.cssText" that we couldn't do before?"

No, this is synonymous to get/setAttribute('style') so you could already do everything before that you can do with this. It is provided for compatibility reasons.

porneL # 3. March 2006, 19:42

I don't get it - why did you break <SCRIPT> tag? AFAIK IE doesn't support XHTML syntax at all, so what are you trying to be compatible with?

(OTOH support for mousewheel sounds great)

XRock # 3. March 2006, 19:49

Well, I think, I'd rather miss this build than have such a headache with flash. This build is too bugged for installing.

Orlando # 3. March 2006, 19:53

It seems like caching is improved - some problems which I suffer with all previous builds (from TP1) are gone!
But there is no such mentions in changelog. Strange...

chaimav # 3. March 2006, 20:18

"If every build will contain a regression?
It looks like nowadays became a tendency :-("

This is what weeklies are. They are current builds, no more - no less. They are not even worthy of being called technical previews!

FataL # 3. March 2006, 20:31

"If every build will contain a regression?
It looks like nowadays became a tendency :-("
Vladimyr, if you don't understand purpose of this builds - don't use them. Use Technical Previews or Betas instead - they are pretty stable.

desmasiic # 3. March 2006, 20:33

---@desmasiic
Yes, this issue is gone.
And why suddenly?
Didn't you read the known issues for the previous build?---

Err.. I did but don't exactly noticed them, ignored them prob (I wasn't into RSS very much until I started using that build). Thanks anyway, downloading now.

FataL # 3. March 2006, 20:37

I noticed clearing quirks with selecting text on pages. Now I can actually deselect text without selecting all and than clicking anywhere on the page to deselect.
Good job!

FataL # 3. March 2006, 20:52

Jerky hover effects - regression in builds after Opera 9 TP2

sebt # 3. March 2006, 23:04

@Woifi: I think this build has some Javascript issues. Previous builds had some similar site hangs at placed like www.mininova.org but this build is much worse. I've kicked back to 8238 for now, and hope these Javascript hangs get sorted out next week.

Seb

Junyor # 3. March 2006, 23:05

@xErath: It's completely unrelated to DOM 2 Style support.

Plexxxy # 3. March 2006, 23:20

Since first TP2 *nix build, I believe, the 'Enable Proxy Servers' option in the quick pref's has quit working; the option can be disabled there, but not reenabled later on. Would love to see that one back in action -- having to go into the preferences anytime Privoxy interferes with a web site gets old quick

Thanks