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Weekly build

By olli. Friday, March 3, 2006 4:19:32 PM

WARNING: This build will frequently crash when using Flash.[/SIZE]

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

Ar1Pear1pe Friday, March 3, 2006 4:55:24 PM

Thanks bigsmile

Kyle Bakerkyleabaker Friday, March 3, 2006 5:00:59 PM

downloading now, can't wait!

G-Bojkokrusha Friday, March 3, 2006 5:01:19 PM

Dnldnin' ;-)

macobas Friday, March 3, 2006 5:03:29 PM

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

Kostia RomanovKildor Friday, March 3, 2006 5:03:32 PM

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?

Ar1Pear1pe Friday, March 3, 2006 5:07:01 PM

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

Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jonestarquinwj Friday, March 3, 2006 5:11:13 PM

"but broken onformchange doesn`t fixed yet"

being looked into already smile

"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 smile

Kostia RomanovKildor Friday, March 3, 2006 5:12:39 PM

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 Friday, March 3, 2006 5:16:02 PM

Kildor: Thx fixed :-)

desmasiic Friday, March 3, 2006 5:24:27 PM

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 p

Dennis-Hawks Friday, March 3, 2006 5:26:27 PM

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

PatentEater Friday, March 3, 2006 5:27:46 PM

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 Friday, March 3, 2006 5:29:17 PM

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

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

smile

x666 Friday, March 3, 2006 5:32:10 PM

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 smile Thanks for your amazing work!

Michael A. Puls IIburnout426 Friday, March 3, 2006 5:37:30 PM

"Script events now report correct keyCode..."

Awesome!

Dennis-Hawks Friday, March 3, 2006 5:42:23 PM

@x666
In Atom 1.0 feed for the comments you are able to view the comment author wink
And not in RSS 2.0 feed sad

towolf Friday, March 3, 2006 5:43:38 PM

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

olli Friday, March 3, 2006 5:48:52 PM

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

towolf Friday, March 3, 2006 5:50:03 PM

merci

x666 Friday, March 3, 2006 5:53:51 PM

@Dennis_Hawks: thanks, my bad smile

Non-Tropponon-troppo Friday, March 3, 2006 5:56:34 PM

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

sebt Friday, March 3, 2006 6:03:03 PM

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 smile

Dennis-Hawks Friday, March 3, 2006 6:04:35 PM

@seb
Confirm.

João EirasxErath Friday, March 3, 2006 6:18:07 PM

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

Idan AdarYtseJam Friday, March 3, 2006 6:24:19 PM

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

Wolfgang Woifi Friday, March 3, 2006 6:24:28 PM

@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 Friday, March 3, 2006 6:28:13 PM

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 Friday, March 3, 2006 6:32:31 PM

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

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. wink

Icfu

Moises Limamoises-l Friday, March 3, 2006 6:35:51 PM

can you do userjs manager?

PatentEater Friday, March 3, 2006 7:16:34 PM

@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 IvanovVladimyr Friday, March 3, 2006 7:21:45 PM

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

FataL Friday, March 3, 2006 7:23:43 PM

Web Forms: Repetition redrawing bug

Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jonestarquinwj Friday, March 3, 2006 7:25:49 PM

"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 Friday, March 3, 2006 7:42:16 PM

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)

AlexanderXRock Friday, March 3, 2006 7:49:50 PM

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

АлександрOrlando Friday, March 3, 2006 7:53:49 PM

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 Friday, March 3, 2006 8:18:55 PM

"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 Friday, March 3, 2006 8:31:20 PM

"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 Friday, March 3, 2006 8:33:51 PM

---@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 Friday, March 3, 2006 8:37:18 PM

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! up

FataL Friday, March 3, 2006 8:52:58 PM

Jerky hover effects - regression in builds after Opera 9 TP2

sebt Friday, March 3, 2006 11:04:12 PM

@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 smile

Tim AltmanJunyor Friday, March 3, 2006 11:05:10 PM

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

Plexxxy Friday, March 3, 2006 11:20:14 PM

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 wink

Thanks

AlexandrZybex Friday, March 3, 2006 11:44:22 PM

Why build numbers was removed from User-agent string?

Carlos Renato F. VendraminiRedPingüim Saturday, March 4, 2006 1:18:22 AM

Anyone using this build with Linux? I get "segmentation fault" when trying to start Opera..

OPC Saturday, March 4, 2006 2:16:42 AM

I'm using it with Debian Linux just fine (for now wink )

Sgt_HoboSergeantHobo Saturday, March 4, 2006 2:56:51 AM

Downloaded the new build. Loving it so far.

selda Saturday, March 4, 2006 3:22:30 AM

I love Fridays. This built is pretty stable so far ;-)

GaaraZanta Saturday, March 4, 2006 6:35:17 AM

wierd, I don't seem to be having any problems with flash, so far, this build seems stable enough, will have to test for a few days to see if that holds.

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