olli

Merlin evolving

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

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

Daniel # 9. December 2005, 12:40

Yay! Syntax highlighting!

Dennis_Hawks # 9. December 2005, 12:55

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

Idan Adar # 9. December 2005, 13:15

Yeah, maybe even a new preview!

scipio # 9. December 2005, 14:22

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 # 9. December 2005, 14:23

Scipio: Yeah and it works great here :-)

Kostia Romanov # 9. December 2005, 14:54

Excellent news… $)

Hermen # 9. December 2005, 16:39

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

Forum link.

FataL # 9. December 2005, 16:59

Can't wait to see...

Great!

Lars Andersson # 9. December 2005, 20:00

Great

Simon Houston # 9. December 2005, 20:19

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

olli # 10. December 2005, 00:32

Shoust: Yes that is correct :-p

Dennis_Hawks # 10. December 2005, 08:17

with a laptop, right?

Jakub81 # 10. December 2005, 12:22

Maybe with Opera mini

olli # 10. December 2005, 12:41

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

Dennis_Hawks # 10. December 2005, 12:50

Hehe

Maybe he programs himself Operamiga

olli # 10. December 2005, 12:55

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 # 11. December 2005, 20:04

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

olli # 12. December 2005, 12:47

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

Lior Rubin ,ליאור רובין # 13. December 2005, 06:25

I hope BiDi problems will be fix

George # 13. December 2005, 08:48

OK. This is a good news

olli # 13. December 2005, 10:45

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

Tamil # 13. December 2005, 15:20

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.

Peter # 13. December 2005, 19:38

Great! Well done, and hope to see more soon

Aux # 13. December 2005, 21:41

I want a preview!

olli # 13. December 2005, 21:43

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

Lior Rubin ,ליאור רובין # 13. December 2005, 22:24

olli: we love you OPERA

olli # 13. December 2005, 23:46

:-)

Robert Błaut # 14. December 2005, 14:40

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

Ismar # 16. December 2005, 06:27

AWESOME NEWS.

Wolfram Kresse # 17. December 2005, 18:50

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?

Jonspencerbx # 19. December 2005, 20:33

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 # 19. December 2005, 21:21

jonspencerbx: Not sure about the stage of that yet

chesss # 29. December 2005, 07:47

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 Панов # 1. January 2006, 20:22

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

olli # 1. January 2006, 20:36

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

Anonymous # 20. January 2006, 22:53

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. Allen # 27. January 2006, 02:28

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 # 28. January 2006, 18:49

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

pholie # 30. January 2006, 18:30

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.