We have a new weekly build for you to play with. We've fixed plenty of bugs on all platforms, and one of the biggest changes this week is a completely new Windows installer. Our old installer is starting to show it's age, and for some time now we've been working on a new one using the Windows Installer engine. This change has several advantages. Windows Installer is the native install system on the platform, it provides more powerful network installation options, and it allow us to translate the installer to more languages. But it has drawbacks as well. Windows Installer is not pre-installed on older Windows systems, and the package will be a bit larger. The transition has to be made sooner or later, and we think that the advantages now outweigh the disadvantages. Happy bug hunting! Changelog:

• Tabbed browsing preferences have been moved to Preferences - Advanced - Tabs.
• Fix for Shift+Click text selection.
• Removed support for SGML comments in HTML. Comment parsing is now based on the Web Applications 1.0 draft.
• Fix to allow object tags with an empty data attribute to load plug-ins.
• Fix for loading PDF documents in a plug-in via the POST method.
• Implemented stepUp and stepDown for Web Forms 2.0 date inputs.
• Added support for Audio, as described in the Web Applications 1.0 draft.
• Images held only in memory using the Image() constructor now report the correct dimensions.
• Added support for controlling plug-ins with site specific preferences.
• Clicking a label for a checkbox now fires events for the associated input.
• Formchange event is now fired when contents of the form are changed.
• Several designMode improvements, including handling of queryCommandEnabled and queryCommandState, and converting multiple paragraphs into list items.
• Added support for dynamically generated script tags in SVG.
• Allowed animating of flood-color in SVG using animateColor.
• Fix for mouse events in widgets.
• Dragging a scrollbar in a widget no longer drags the widget.
• Fixed handling of :hover over block elements.
• Improved handling of whitespace around inline elements.
• Fixed aligning of fonts on buttons.
• Self closing tags no longer break layout.

Mac specific:

• Quote from mac developer minch:

  This build is fantastic!

• Adobe has released a preview version of Macromedia Flash-plugin update for Intel-based Macs. This update is now compatible with Opera. Download is available at: <http://www.macromedia.com/go/2dda3d81>.

Windows specific:

• For Windows users, this weekly build is only available in Windows Installer format. If your computer does not yet have the Windows Installer, it can be downloaded from the Microsoft download page.

Windows Installer specific: Installers are notoriously difficult to set up correctly for all systems, there are just too many different computer setups in the world for us to think of all of them. Anticipating that some of you might find bugs in the installer, we've set the installer to write a local log as it progresses. This log is stored in the file

install_log.txt

which is placed in the folder where the installer is run from. If you encounter problems while running the installer, we would very much appreciate it if you would file a bug report and provide the log as an attachment. The log will be overwritten if you run the installer twice, so please file the bug report first, and retry afterwords. If your install goes smoothly, just ignore or delete the log. Known issues:

• (mac) Keyboard shortcuts with "ctrl" as modifier can cause Opera to crash.
• (Windows installer) A few files are not removed on uninstall and have to be deleted manually.

Download links:

• Windows Build 8303
• Macintosh Build 3278
• UNIX Build 161