Opera Desktop Team

9.02RC1

By toman. Monday, 18. September 2006, 14:13:14

This is RC1 for 9.02, so please look out for regressions since 9.01. That means comparing bugs you find in this build to 9.01 and labelling them as [regression] when you find that the bug is new. Happy hunting!

Changelog:

Fixed crash on live.com
Dialog again appears when subscribing to feeds
More fixes to falsely greyed out properties on bookmarks
More fixes to Gmails spellcheck
Yahoo mail beta should now work better
Fix for flash videos not always working on youtube and elsewhere
Added support for selectNodes and selectSingleNode
Updated OpenSSL due to http://secunia.com/advisories/21982/

ECMAScript

Made Slashdot Discussion2 beta work properly (Parse INT larger than 8388608)

UNIX

Copying and pasting now works properly on gmail
There are Intel Solaris builds as well this time

Mac

Shubert's PDF plugin now works

Windows MSI
Windows Classic
Macintosh
Unix

Thank you and goodbye!9.02RC2

Comments

Stevie1 # 18. September 2006, 16:13

weeeee cool, thanks opera team!

Ramunas # 18. September 2006, 16:17

We're still waiting for you guys to upload unix builds..

Tenho # 18. September 2006, 16:17

Yippii!

Hopefully the unix-version will be uploaded soon.

oatmeal1972 # 18. September 2006, 16:17

no unix version yet????

toman # 18. September 2006, 16:20

Have patience, you can see that the directory is there, right?

Tamil # 18. September 2006, 16:23

Nice.

OperaBuddy # 18. September 2006, 16:26

still hanging on advertisements...eg: www.cnn.com

remcolanting # 18. September 2006, 16:26

Yay! A weekly!

Cryptobionika # 18. September 2006, 16:29

Yahoo! Mail Beta should work better? But it wasn't working at all, it said my browser isn't supported. It should be now? Well, doesn't really matter, I'm satisfied with old Yahoo! Mail anyway. I'm so happy you people paid attention to Yahoo! Mail! Thanks for the weekly! I can be rough sometimes, but well, it's because I care.

Twilo # 18. September 2006, 16:37

weekly
i love it!

serious # 18. September 2006, 16:38

cool, will check it out immediatly

non-troppo # 18. September 2006, 16:46

[REGRESSION from 9.01] Reload is broken for all inline content. That means unless things are served with no-cache, pressing F5/ctrl+r will not revalidate them. That includes CSS, JS, images and anything else on a page (the main document is ok). So any web developers take note, use 9.01 for development, or force all content out of the cache. Bug #228474

Tenho # 18. September 2006, 16:49

Yeah, I also noticed that CSS was not loading correctly after I had made some changes to it.

_Grey_ # 18. September 2006, 16:59

@non-troppo: I experienced these problems in 9.01, too. Are you sure that it worked for you before? Didn't ever test 9.00, though.

edit: See http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/451988?startidx=50#comment2080002

Ice Nine # 18. September 2006, 17:00

As noted above, the hanging at CNN.COM (and other sites) on the advertisements is maddening.

Cryptobionika # 18. September 2006, 17:04

NOTHING in Yahoo! Mail is fixed, but it's alright, because if I disable plugins, javascript error doesn't seem to appear. However, disabling plugins also disables flash animation, and avatar doesn't load in mailbox.

rseiler # 18. September 2006, 17:05

So I assume that support for selectNodes and selectSingleNode means better support with certain MS sites, or is it more general than that? Does anyone know of some sites where I can see this in action?

@Crypto: I'm not sure what the Yahoo Mail Beta comment means either, since it didn't work before and still doesn't. I expect the Opera devs are working behind-the-scenes with Yahoo to get it working, however, YMB is an *extremely* Web 2.0-ish type site, which means rough going for Opera. Heck, Yahoo doesn't even support IE6 under Win98, even though IE6 on that platform works perfectly fine with YMB if you spoof IE's browser ID. Go figure.

FWIW, Opera does get "Grade A" support for Opera, though obviously they don't mean across all sites:
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/gbs/gbs_browser-chart.html

Khadgar # 18. September 2006, 17:11

Whee! Great job guys! Just a reminder, though... I'd really like to see some of the skinning bugs fixed, one specifically for the Macintosh. Just a reminder. I know you guys have a lot of stuff to do

klingoncowboy4 # 18. September 2006, 17:15

Seeing as there is a request for "regressions" I will take the opportunity to report some longstanding bugs. These aren't really regressions as the existed previously but still deserve mention.

NationStates does not refresh pages properly until after Opera restart.

S5000 Teen Personals pop-ups don't work properly. However, I did try the site out with the latest build and the problem seems to have gone away. Unfortunately I have no way of knowing if I am being "IMed" or not and you need a teen account (with and age requirement of 13 to 17) to test. The problem probably also exists on the adult site as well.

Oh and of coarse improved Javascript support all round and more specifically AJAX.

bazyli # 18. September 2006, 17:17

[you tube] fullscreen still doesn't work... :/

klingoncowboy4 # 18. September 2006, 17:19

Comment marked as spam--awaiting moderation

So the spammers are getting upedy again?

Wajo357 # 18. September 2006, 17:19

is it really hard to fix the address bar - caps lock bug?

By typing in "goo" the drop down suggestion box appears with www.google.com, etc but if you type in "GOO", nothing appears. Shouldn't the G=g in the address bar?

non-troppo # 18. September 2006, 17:20

_Grey_ - i have never been able to verify in a build before 9.02, though there have been some reports previously. My test case:

http://nontroppo.org/test/opera/cachetest3

Definately works fine in anything before 9.02 for me...

Yahoo Mail: I get as far as login (you can now override the browser sniff block) but it freezes before getting to message display

andresruiz # 18. September 2006, 17:23

Jajajajajajaja
Yahoo Mail Beta should work better ????...good joke...It doesn't work at all !!! and have never worked. Try making it ignore system requirements in order to force it to load < http://us.f516.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?sysreq=ignore > on my pc it doesn't work. So I don't know how Opera Team thinks it will work "better".jajaja

Opera guys, maybe you should talk with Yahoo guys in order to fix the problem together, Yahoo server tells us that Opera is not supported so that should be solved with yahoo guys help.

Thank you for the new build, It will be funny to hunt bugs.

And again...thanks for the Yahoo Joke.

kennycrudup # 18. September 2006, 17:26

*sigh*

Immediately from a "Continue from last time" got rendering errors on this very page, only the Alt-P/go-between-tabs/OK trick made it render properly.

I'll try -personaldir, but I suspect (like last time) it won't make much difference.

_Grey_ # 18. September 2006, 17:28

@non-troppo: Perhaps these are different issues, then. I edited css-files on my server, but they didn't change the site. Only when I went to the css-file and hit "reload" the changes would show in the main doc. This also happened with a site of a friend of mine. When he updated his stylesheet (on my demand) I didn't notice at first.

nenericardo # 18. September 2006, 17:29

yahoo! mail is not present support for my opera

non-troppo # 18. September 2006, 17:36

andresruiz: opera are working on Yahoo Mail Beta AFAIK (maybe in builds not released yet), it is no joke. I get to a frozen loading page and no more...

andresruiz # 18. September 2006, 17:44

Wowwwww

www.live.com seems to work...I hope after solving Yahoo Mail Beta problems, you could make Windows Live Mail work in "Live Mode" on Opera 9,02

Thank you again

kyleabaker # 18. September 2006, 17:47

Sweet! Thanks for the release, testing now!

andresruiz # 18. September 2006, 17:48

non-troppo please expain it to me better. How is Opera working on YMB ? what's AFAIK ? are you the webmaster of nontroppo web page...where I used to download buttons for Opera ?

Tks

non-troppo # 18. September 2006, 17:55

well, most problems are probably incompatibilities in the javascript that drives Yahoo Mail Beta. Opera devs can patch most of that using browser.js - use an experimental patch to fix most problems and work through remaining issues. They may get Yahoo mail beta loading and are going through issues (as the changelog attests) even if your (and my) opera cannot.

{and yes, I am

}

FataL # 18. September 2006, 17:57

@non-troppo, @_Grey_: I mentioned caching bug in previous weekly. It drive me crazy at work when I write CSS or JavaScript.

mywapis # 18. September 2006, 18:00

Nice))) And sexy...

FataL # 18. September 2006, 18:00

So the spammers are getting upedy again?

No it's just stupid antispam filter.

kennycrudup # 18. September 2006, 18:01

Is there any chance the window manager used (I use "mwm" from the lesstif package) could make a difference with this rendering bug?

xErath # 18. September 2006, 18:03

Added support for selectNodes and selectSingleNode

Do you support setProperty too ? of course it shouldn't do anything, but this function must be invoked in IE to set the selection language as xpath, so websites using IE's xpath APi always call this function before select*Node*

kyleabaker # 18. September 2006, 18:07

Is there a problem with the spam filter, cause i've never seen FataL post spam period.

EDIT: NM, was corrected.

andresruiz # 18. September 2006, 18:10

Thank you non-troppo. Now I understand better the situation. I I hope Opera guys find the way to solve it soon.

Filip007 # 18. September 2006, 18:12

This page won't open
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3172

it loads but there is nothing there...

kyleabaker # 18. September 2006, 18:15

@Filip007
Confirmed. The posted link will not load, but altering the ID number to any other number will load fine. The posted link loads fine in IE and FF.

EDIT: Source appears fine, just won't render at all.

_Grey_ # 18. September 2006, 18:20

@FataL: I've read your comment, but it is on page 6 and the comment I refered to was on page 2.

edit: This blogpost is incorrectly tagged as "RC2", shouldn't it read "RC1", instead?

Vempire # 18. September 2006, 18:28

IIIIIIIIIII'm soooooooo Happy

operafan2006 # 18. September 2006, 18:43

Still no luck with yahoo video for example:
http://www.yahoo.com/s/393086

HeeZy # 18. September 2006, 18:47

yahoo mail beta doesn't work for me either. even tried to mask as IE. didn't work.

and please allow us the option to SAVE Cookies for IP Addresses.

thx

NeroW # 18. September 2006, 18:52

www.pgatour.com still does not render properly.
It's a mess. There are several other sites also.

'pgatour' works OK in IE, k-meleon and Firefox.

Most importantly, all these sites work properly in
9.00 Beta Build 8432 - the last build that worked
properly.

I don't think this should be considered a RC.

FataL # 18. September 2006, 18:55

Originally posted by Filip007:

This page won't open
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3172
it loads but there is nothing there...

This bug affected Opera 8 and 9. Opera 7.54 open page fine.
Only one not opened quote in meta info caused this to happen.

I did test case.
Handling of tag soup should be improved. Opera devs, is it known problem or somebody need to fill a bug report?

rseiler # 18. September 2006, 19:20

@Fatal: Is there some easy way of quoting in this forum that I'm missing?

FataL # 18. September 2006, 19:22

@rseiler: no easy ways, man, only by hands

[ q u o t e ] ... [ / q u o t e ]

Damn, I hate to be considered as spammer by default
Couple more times and I will give up until it will be fixed.

borg # 18. September 2006, 19:27

@NeroW: www.pgatour.com looks *really* ugly and should be fixed. Due to the need to update OpenSSL we will ship a release this week, then go back to bug fixing again. Nag about bug number 217222 if we forget about it for too many weeklies...

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