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My Opera July 2007 Release Changelog

By Fredrik Andersson. Tuesday, 24. July 2007, 11:33:16

changelog, designs, ninjas, pirates, new features

Today we're proud to announce a new feature: status. Now you can tell everyone what you are doing, so that we can stay up to date on your on- and offline adventures.

You can easily update your status by clicking the status icon on the black bar at the top of the page. Your status will be shown on your profile, friend listings, and in the sidebar of your blog. It will also be listed on the front page of My Opera community for a short while.

Today's release also includes:

Two new blog themes, featuring both ninjas and pirates
(a big thanks to Khadgar for designing the ninja theme!)
Improved cacheing of images
Improved parser
Improved web page handler and faster template system
Faster loading of avatars
Anonymous users are no longer allowed to use BBcode and HTML in their comments
(for spam reasons)
View inline comment/forum pictures is now on by default for new users
User quotes has been removed from friends pages
Status is now shown on friends pages. It's sortable by "updated status", "name" and "newest"
Fixed forum search bugs
Added Technorati pingback functionality
Added more visible links for inviting friends on the account pages
The "notify me" feature for comments is now on by default
My Opera home page now features status listings
Moved featured members from home page to peoples page
The interview section was removed from the peoples page
The shoutbox/chat on the peoples page was replaced with status listings
The page for changing designs now has the same design as the personal pages
Added missing icons for 5 latest blog designs
Fixed some IE5/6 CSS problems
Upgraded the Hitslink script for 100.000 members
Added 3 smilies to the official list ( )
Added missing class names for the photo album navigation
Added a feedback form to be used for competitions
Removed old affiliate pages, while waiting for new ones
Added the first next generation experimental blog design, for the Kilimanjaro07 group
Fixed CSS for sticky topics in the lounge forums
Added styling for active input elements
Added step=1 to datetime input on blog editor page
Once again added the widgets promo to the opera section
Fixed misc spelling mistakes
Fixed an edit comment bug with 'disable smilies'
Removed some things from the Opera buttons page
Fixed the link and flag for the Opera traditional chinese forums
Trackbacks are available again, and it's possible to delete all trackbacks and/or all trackbacks marked as spam

And, there's a lot of other small stuff as well...

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Comments

vetler # 24. July 2007, 11:38

Great work, guys!

coxy # 24. July 2007, 11:39

Nice. Check the front page announcement post of the community; you broke something to do with encoding...

Nice work on everything else. Love the changes. Technorati ping, mmm. Also; are anonymous commenteers made aware they can't use HTML or BB Code and that it's just plain text?

Stomyr # 24. July 2007, 11:40

Great job!

fred # 24. July 2007, 11:44

Coxy, we're looking into it. (no, I don't think anonymous commenteers are made aware. we should add something about that)

babox # 24. July 2007, 11:48

Great work!

angel292005 # 24. July 2007, 12:15

nice, I love the 'status'. 'notify me' is ....well this is going to be interesting for people like me who comment a lot! hahah

MizzMartinez # 24. July 2007, 12:24

Great!

Well done Fred and all others OPERA editors!

lamarca # 24. July 2007, 12:33

nice one!
looking forward to add city and state on my profile.

WalterTamboer # 24. July 2007, 13:03

Nice. Maybe it's a good idea to let the user know that the Status button in the top bar is toggable (by a different image or something...?).

AyushJ # 24. July 2007, 13:14

Great !! But the status button is not working on some blogs like this one and my.opera.com/community/ pages

Tamil # 24. July 2007, 14:17

Eddie_Lopez # 24. July 2007, 17:55

Why were the interviews removed? Too difficult to maintain and keep regular?

Great blog design! (Kilimanjaro07)

FataL # 24. July 2007, 18:05

Great!

Small suggestion so far: Birth date field in profile can have date type also...

demiphonic # 24. July 2007, 18:34

cool

ALLY_G # 24. July 2007, 20:08

W O W W W W W ,
such a long list with fixes and news... that is breath-taking!

Thank you very much for the lot of work!

andol # 24. July 2007, 20:17

The "Privacy" >> "Logged in" setting is not honoured any more.

opera_jp # 25. July 2007, 01:27

Trackback comes again!! Nice

demiphonic # 25. July 2007, 02:22

on my watch page when someone comments on a photo.. why doesn't the link take you to the actual photo instead of the album it's in? ..that's kinda annoying

icyleaf # 25. July 2007, 12:58

so coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

Wasacz # 25. July 2007, 17:01

And deleting commments doesn't work!

MizzMartinez # 26. July 2007, 06:42

Wasacz: you can delete comments! I promise!

Wasacz # 26. July 2007, 09:18

No, I can't. I can get 401 error instead.

ohhuy86 # 28. July 2007, 01:23

Theme...theme... I need more theme... What available isn't enough..... Can you help me how to find more? Thanks first!^^

Nikio # 28. July 2007, 06:47

"The "notify me" feature for comments is now on by default"

I personally don't like this. I think it will discourage people from writing such comments, because many times you are not interested in new comments (after you leave). Too many notifications can be irritating.

But for the rest, a big thumbs up

MizzMartinez # 28. July 2007, 08:34

Some gossip: Just so you know...I read somewhere that Fred is on vacation...

cb-at # 4. August 2007, 21:24

Great work indeed! Thx a lot!
i've only one wish: to sort the foto-albums afterwards (e.g. i scan old pictures and the should appear at last, not at first position). this feature is mentioned very often in the forum i think...

greetings from austria!