olli

Merlin evolving

Friday, December 9, 2005 12:34:51 PM

We are still working hard on Merlin and we have seen improvements both on the core side and on the UI side.
We have implemented an easier way to add searches so people won't need to dinker around with search.ini anymore.
We also got syntax highligting for the source viewer and site prefs is now on it's way into the preferences.

On the core side we have fixed many crashes and we have also added support for opacity.
These are just some of the things happening in our cubicles right now.
More will be revealed later... Later today xmas party :-)

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Comments

Danieldan1el # Friday, December 9, 2005 12:40:52 PM

Yay! Syntax highlighting!

Dennis-Hawks # Friday, December 9, 2005 12:55:03 PM

Good news!!
Hopefully, on X-mas eve we'll get some new gifts

Idan AdarYtseJam # Friday, December 9, 2005 1:15:04 PM

Yeah, maybe even a new preview!

scipio # Friday, December 9, 2005 2:22:18 PM

We have implemented an easier way to add searches so people won't need to dinker around with search.ini anymore.

That's great news!

olli # Friday, December 9, 2005 2:23:54 PM

Scipio: Yeah and it works great here :-)

Kostia RomanovKildor # Friday, December 9, 2005 2:54:24 PM

Excellent news… $)

Hermenhermen2048 # Friday, December 9, 2005 4:39:17 PM

Whooo - each of those is worth the wait for TP2!

Forum link.

FataL # Friday, December 9, 2005 4:59:54 PM

Can't wait to see...

Great!

Lars AnderssonDaedalus # Friday, December 9, 2005 8:00:48 PM

Great

Simon Houstonshoust # Friday, December 9, 2005 8:19:13 PM

Cubicles? You add Opera features while sitting on the toilet?

olli # Saturday, December 10, 2005 12:32:42 AM

Shoust: Yes that is correct :-p

Dennis-Hawks # Saturday, December 10, 2005 8:17:37 AM

with a laptop, right?

Jakub81 # Saturday, December 10, 2005 12:22:52 PM

Maybe with Opera mini

olli # Saturday, December 10, 2005 12:41:09 PM

We use or old amigas.. That is required by Jon as he is a big Amiga fan :-p

Dennis-Hawks # Saturday, December 10, 2005 12:50:23 PM

Hehe

Maybe he programs himself Operamiga

olli # Saturday, December 10, 2005 12:55:20 PM

Nah he is to busy going on trips to Russia etc.. I also wanna go on tons of trips :-D

<atleast I got a bottle of Russian vodka> :-D

rseiler # Sunday, December 11, 2005 8:04:25 PM

Core crashes? Would that include the GDI leak? All the other niceties are pretty meaningless if that one is not plugged.

olli # Monday, December 12, 2005 12:47:33 PM

rseiler: Yeah thats a bad bug and will be looked into.

Lior Rubin ,ליאור רוביןrubinproj # Tuesday, December 13, 2005 6:25:51 AM

I hope BiDi problems will be fix

GeorgeGeoD # Tuesday, December 13, 2005 8:48:07 AM

OK. This is a good news

olli # Tuesday, December 13, 2005 10:45:26 AM

rubinproj: Yes we have AFAIK fixed some severe BIDI issues :-)

Tamil # Tuesday, December 13, 2005 3:20:17 PM

We have implemented an easier way to add searches so people won't need to dinker around with search.ini anymore.
We also got syntax highligting for the source viewer and site prefs is now on it's way into the preferences.

Once again thanks for Opera developers.

Peterkalord # Tuesday, December 13, 2005 7:38:12 PM

Great! Well done, and hope to see more soon

Aux # Tuesday, December 13, 2005 9:41:02 PM

I want a preview!

olli # Tuesday, December 13, 2005 9:43:28 PM

Aux: WIR :-p dude I never get tired of saying that hehe

Lior Rubin ,ליאור רוביןrubinproj # Tuesday, December 13, 2005 10:24:46 PM

olli: we love you OPERA

olli # Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:46:52 PM

:-)

Robert Błautquiris # Wednesday, December 14, 2005 2:40:57 PM

I'm pretty sure you're also aware of text-shadow beauty

IsmarMoeRL # Friday, December 16, 2005 6:27:23 AM

AWESOME NEWS.

Wolfram KresseCruncher # Saturday, December 17, 2005 6:50:32 PM

Bummer. And I never was able to figure out what the "Verbtext=17063" was for...

My bet is still on the original developer's birth day. Or, wait - could it be his office phone number?

Jonspencerbxjonspencerbx # Monday, December 19, 2005 8:33:34 PM

Did any work go into the new mail-storage format? Lots of people complained about that (including me...). Glad to see the crashers fixed and the UI for editing search engines is very welcome!

Keep up the good work!

M.

olli # Monday, December 19, 2005 9:21:06 PM

jonspencerbx: Not sure about the stage of that yet

chesss # Thursday, December 29, 2005 7:47:24 AM

uber Cooool

!! Please reveal one more thing. What about super searches?? Will there be a UI for adding multiple supersearches?? That wld be really cool

Андрей Пановandrew3105 # Sunday, January 1, 2006 8:22:10 PM

olli, when this Merlin preview will be released? I'm sorry for grammatic mistakes.

olli # Sunday, January 1, 2006 8:36:23 PM

andrew3105: Well see :-) Hopefully it won't take too long

Anonymous # Friday, January 20, 2006 10:53:30 PM

Anonymous writes: Does adding a new way to add searches mean we can delete useless search engines available by default and add new ones, the cool

S. A. Allensamarthurallen # Friday, January 27, 2006 2:28:59 AM

If the source viewer had an automatic update, rather than me having to hit Ctrl+S all the time to refresh the page, that would make Opera an HTML editor in its own right. Oh yes, and congradulations on the Technical Preview, Opera team. It's stable on this system. Perhaps with help from the community, Opera has the chance to steal the browser crown once and for all.

Anonymous # Saturday, January 28, 2006 6:49:47 PM

Anonymous writes: Ya right with hardly 1 percent share how do we steal the crown. Dream Sensibly like breaking 1 percent by this years end. Don't get me wrong I'm a huge Opera fan, been using it since v4. I'm really frustrated to see Firefox a new dummy browser getting all the praises

xxxpholie # Monday, January 30, 2006 6:30:57 PM

We have implemented an easier way to add searches so people won't need to dinker around with search.ini anymore.

Great. It would be even better if we could easily 'install' some pre-defined search engines from public lists like this one:
http://nontroppo.org/wiki/SearchPlugins

Now they only can be installed as button or field but completely integrating in into existing dropdown box would be awesome.