olli

Opera 9 Technical Preview 2

Tuesday, February 7, 2006 8:38:46 AM

So we just released the second preview after stressing with it for a loong time.
We have done alot this time and even if it gives you the impression we have only worked on new features thats not the case. We have fixed alot of old bugs and made a few ones I'm sure :-p
This is a technical preview afterall :-)

Besides all the fancy things we also added some small, but for some people important efatures.
Like f.ex ctrl+enter in address field prefills www and .com
We have also done lots of work on the Linux side. Check the Unix forums for more info there.
We also changed the gesture treshold from 3 to 5 to see if that works out better. I would like some feedback on that.

Also have a look at the new lab site. We hope to have alot of stuff there ;-)

Where to fint the build:

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=122915

Some postings by other employees on the release:

http://virtuelvis.com/archives/2006/02/opera-9-tp-2

http://my.opera.com/mitchman2/blog/show.dml/133235

http://lofotenmoose.info/-/item/opera-internals-quietly-conservative

http://weblog.timaltman.com/node/822

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Comments

Anonymous # Tuesday, February 7, 2006 9:51:01 PM

Anonymous writes: Sweet! And just for the record, you're my favourite Opera employee :)

olli # Tuesday, February 7, 2006 10:25:11 PM

Thanks :-)

Aux # Thursday, February 9, 2006 10:24:00 PM

Hello! I have a little question. Well, the thing is that I think that Opera Software is planning to make a development platform for Web/Opera SDK and so on. Maybe not a platform so early, but a nice IDE. Am I right? There're some things leading me to that idea (:

Non-Tropponon-troppo # Saturday, February 11, 2006 3:36:22 PM

Olli, as one who had problems with over-sensitive gestures, 5 is better than 3 here. Though I find 8 to be better. 5 pixels is still very small movement, especially with screen geometries getting higher...

olli # Saturday, February 11, 2006 7:19:36 PM

non-troppo: I'm having a hard time figuring what is best. Is the tresure holf wrong or am I too sloppy sometimes.. Don't know. Thus trying out 5.. It's hard to find the correct treshold therefor I hoped to get some feedback. The feedback I get from you seems to indicate it has been to low yes :-|