Opera Desktop Team

…and one more weekly!

By Claudio Santambrogio. Friday, 10. March 2006, 15:29:38

Browser, desktop, Opera

It's Friday again - time for one more round of testing a snapshot of our internal development!

As usual, please read the Known Issues List first:

Cannot view e-mail attachments within Opera.
:hover pseudo-class is only recognised when hovering inline boxes within an element (may cause Pure CSS Menus to fail).
Text may be misaligned on buttons.
Self closing (non-script) tags may break the layout.
Some pages may have unexpected linebreaks.

Changelog

Fixed crasher on Flash.
Added experimental support for opening Web archives.
Improved display of content blocker toolbar.
Added keyboard shortcuts Cmd+[ and Cmd+] for back/forward on Mac.
Up/down arrows no longer select next/previous messages in e-mail and news views when the message view has focus.
Improved notification of invalid SSL certificates.
Upgrading will automatically disable 40 and 56 bit SSL/TLS ciphers.
Fixed float and inline box stacking order, as required by the Acid2 test.
Allowed mouse events to pass through clipped or overflowed (or otherwise transparent) regions of an element.
Added class contructors for CanvasGradient, CanvasPattern, and CanvasRenderingContext2D.
Added support for HTMLTableElement.cells collection.
<xml> elements are no longer removed from the HTML DOM.
Improved handling of offsetTop, offsetLeft, and offsetParent.
Added support for Selection.removeAllRanges and Selection.addRange.

Unix specific

A special dapper_i386.deb package addresses installation issues experienced by Ubuntu Dapper Drake users.

Mac specific

This build might crash on launch on Mac OS X 10.2.

Download links:

Weekly build...but not yet ;)

Comments

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velmu # 10. March 2006, 16:33

Downloading the Mac build...

edit: looks like it's also the first post

FataL # 10. March 2006, 16:34

I'm second!
But hey, it's new weekly!

Håkon # 10. March 2006, 16:35

Cool!

Zygi # 10. March 2006, 16:38

oh kids are having fun, racing who posted first comment....

i'm fourth

Shinglor # 10. March 2006, 16:39

Hooray, Opera passes Acid2! Great work. It would be nice if Firefox could keep up and provide some decent competition.

cielkisu # 10. March 2006, 16:39

keep on working !! i love weekly build .. woohoo..

byte # 10. March 2006, 16:40

eh, no static version

Jakub81 # 10. March 2006, 16:40

What a relief, a new dose of Opera...

Thanks!

nicomen # 10. March 2006, 16:44

> eh, no static version

Sure there are:

but only .deb for now. ;/

to unpack the .deb for other distros use:

ar -x opera-static_9.0-20060310.1-qt_en_i386.deb

then snatch the resulting data.tar.gz and unpack where you feel like. And run it from there.

A nice recipe is this one:

mkdir ~/opera_9.0-20060310
cd ~/opera_9.0-2006031
ar -x opera-static_9.0-20060310.1-qt_en_i386.deb
tar xzvf data.tar.gz
perl -pi -e 's/^OPERA_BINARYDIR=\//OPERA_BINARYDIR=/' usr/bin/opera
usr/bin/opera -personaldir ~/opera_9.0-2006031

this should not interfere with existing installations but let you explore the new features of latest weekly :-)

XRock # 10. March 2006, 16:44

Too much issues for this build. But they are small, so I will download it.

mophor # 10. March 2006, 16:44

some reports:

your onmousewheel wheel delta seems to report things the other way around, compared to IE. When viewing http://www.techniekpromotie.nl/ which implements this event, you can see that. Also see http://www.rikkertkoppes.com/tests/opera9/wheeldelta.htm for my testcase (scrolling up is negative, while IE thinks it's positive, I admit, your version is more logical)

in last week's build I found some issues changing the mousecursor. This also involved previous releases (e.g. 8.5): http://www.rikkertkoppes.com/tests/opera9/mousecursor.htm The mousecursor in the area should change when the mousebutton is pressed, however in last week's build (and previous) this only happens when you press, move out the element and move back. In this build, nothing at all happens.

There are rendering issues when hiding/displaying svg using display: block/none on an element surrounding the whole, see for instance: http://www.rikkertkoppes.com/tests/svg/tabletest.xml (click the red icon to change between table and (svg) graph view)

velmu # 10. March 2006, 16:45

Zygi: Hehe

I suppose people with a life don't spend their time waiting for a fresh BETA release on FRIDAY EVENING

FataL # 10. March 2006, 16:45

experimental support for opening Web archives
What is means and how it work? How to test?

Immanis # 10. March 2006, 16:48

Err... what does this suppose to mean:
"Added experimental support for opening Web archives."

SvenD # 10. March 2006, 16:49

Nice as always, but the Message Console is still here :-(

Junyor # 10. March 2006, 16:49

@FataL: It's MHTML support. When you save a page, there's a new option for Web archives. Opera will now also open MHTML files.

Dennis_Hawks # 10. March 2006, 16:50

@FataL
MHT?

Block content with shift is awesome!

marsu # 10. March 2006, 16:50

Ok, a new version. But there is mutch to do for a new release. The rendering engine has a lot of refreshing bugs. (Read a java api documentation and scroll with your mouse down) ... and so on...

FataL # 10. March 2006, 16:52

Immanis: maybe I'm just stupid, but I don't know what Web archives means. Is it ZIP archives or something else? And what exactly means support. You can see content of archive before download, or you can download only selected files from archive?..
Update Thanks Junyor and Dennis_Hawks. Now I got it. MHT support is great! Now we can not only open MHT, but also save

DjiXas # 10. March 2006, 16:54

Hehe, another beta

Nice.

SailorMax # 10. March 2006, 16:55

2Junyor: Save as mht (this page), and try open it

in result I don't see this page

Kildor # 10. March 2006, 16:56

MHT-support!! great…
-1 wish of IE-users ;-)

Immanis # 10. March 2006, 16:56

FataL, you beat me with you question, my comment wasn't a response to yours.

desmasiic # 10. March 2006, 16:56

Web Archives are prob a system where old (non functioning) or cached version of sites are stored.

Anyways, I skipped the last build cause of flash crash fear. Now the new version works great so far, plus my lovely RSS feeds are working again. Yesss... nice job.

FataL # 10. March 2006, 16:59

Immanis: ok, sorry... Than it was a funny coincidence.

FataL # 10. March 2006, 17:01

Dennis_Hawks: 100% agree - blocking content with SHIFT is awesome feature.

bitoclass # 10. March 2006, 17:06

Great news about .mht files!

Still no NTLM improvements though

I look forward to the day when I can finally use Opera at work behind our rubbish MS ISA proxy instead of IE!

non-troppo # 10. March 2006, 17:09

MHT seems to work well - indeed better than IE as it seems to save CSS included images too.

Acid2:

Content block: I got a toolbar without any buttons so couldn't exit on this very page - needed to hack up a key toggle...

I just noticed a new command BTW - "Go to Content Magic" - doesn't seem to do much ATM.

Bugs: olli workin' hard I see...

GENERAL: please post bugs to the forum / bug-tracker and not only here...

@ mophor did you post those issues to the bug tracker?

klingoncowboy4 # 10. March 2006, 17:16

Just got the windows build running so far so good (only time will tell if it is more stable then last build or not)

borg # 10. March 2006, 17:16

Don't you understand anything, non-troppo?

It goes to magic content, of course!

non-troppo # 10. March 2006, 17:21

well, I did notice a dragon burping at me, but I think the toggle is broken in the internal command mechanism (dragon burps stink and there is no way to turn it off, another one of olli's bugs probably)...

Jakub81 # 10. March 2006, 17:23

What? Did you implement MAGIC

in Opera?

non-troppo # 10. March 2006, 17:23

Well, Opera 9 is called Merlin!

Jakub81 # 10. March 2006, 17:31

Well, we had a wand tool already, magic was just a matter of time.

Kildor # 10. March 2006, 17:46

this weekly saves html with images very bad :-(
page was with 20 images, but saves only with 2 :-(
It look like Opera save only CSS images, not :-(((
And mht, saved from this opera doesn`t open in Opera, nor in IE
In Opera opens blank screen with some xml from M2, after resizing, screen filled binary craps…

gyc # 10. March 2006, 17:57

Flash still crashes the Mac version.

salimar # 10. March 2006, 18:01

locks up on me while loading courttv.com

also is there a way to add a list of sites, etc to the block content function of opera instead of adding one site at a time? if so, how might i go about this?

other than that, great going!

non-troppo # 10. March 2006, 18:09

kildor: I tried olli's blog and it saved fine, including HTML embedded images and opened fine in Opera and IE. I checked the saved file and the images are certainly there encoded as base64...

Though I correct my previous point - CSS embedded images are not saved in my test on olli's blog.

sebt # 10. March 2006, 18:12

What's the mail problem with attachments? Do they not work at all?

Seb

nenericardo # 10. March 2006, 18:12

a mi me sale un error cada vez que cierro mi opera ... no se porque

wardies # 10. March 2006, 18:12

Hooray, Opera passes Acid2! Great work.

Yes, excellent work

There are some noticeable artifacts in 120% zoom and all other non-100% zoom multiples. Known issue? Or is Acid2 only intended to work at 100%/200%?

Junyor # 10. March 2006, 18:22

Acid2 is only intended to work at 100% zoom.

slauf # 10. March 2006, 18:28

Thanks for the new Build.
I hope that the weekly Builds are so good for the Development, that the weekly Builds will continue when Opera 9 is released.

I noticed that on http://www.umwelt.sachsen.de/lfug/hwz/Mulde/index.html when I move the cursor over a Measurement Point for Highwater I get no Information which Point it is and which water level there is.

Another problem I found: This Build and the Builds before
( I think since Technical Preview 1) have a problem with some Skins.
The Window will be black total and then after a max moment of a second you see the opera window again. This procedure replays one or more times by opening the
'Appearance' or the 'Preferences' - Window per example.

mark_poleon # 10. March 2006, 18:31

Originally posted by junyor:

It's MHTML support. When you save a page, there's a new option for Web archives. Opera will now also open MHTML files.

ytsmabeer # 10. March 2006, 18:57

Very nice, good work.

Only everytime I close Opera it craching.

enleger # 10. March 2006, 18:58

I am having problems with Yahoo Mail.
When I click my Inbox, Opera shuts down.

kyleabaker # 10. March 2006, 19:12

great build! no crashes for me yet, still testing a few of the new features...

DjiXas # 10. March 2006, 19:18

Many flash pop ups in various webs don't closes with Opera

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http://www.flashbacksearch.com/contact.html

Yahoo id picture goes bit to left, previous opera and any other browsers don't have this issue, also both tables code are the same.

FataL # 10. March 2006, 19:18

With this build we get bugs with selection of the text on pages again (I don't have problems with previous weekly build).