Friday, 5. December 2008, 05:43:03
opera, PEREGRINE
It's been a long wait but finally Opera 10, codename "Peregrine", is
here in early alpha form. It's not yet clear how much Opera 10 is going to change between now and its release, but what is clear is that the Opera team felt that the incorporation of their latest Presto 2.2 rendering engine into to the Opera UI, combined with a few other tempting features, was too good to keep to themselves. So what's new?
Anyone expecting a User Interface overhaul will be disappointed. Opera 10 has a near identical UI to the 9.x series, with the exception of changes to support some of the new features (see below). That's the bad news - now for the good...
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Saturday, 27. October 2007, 00:14:23
kestrel, bugs, opera
Find my growing buglist along with bug numbers for those reported. For Opera enthusiasts test-driving the latest and greatest Opera browser.
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Tuesday, 4. September 2007, 02:26:58
kestrel, opera, top 5
(pre-kestrel!)OK, so I got tagged over a month ago. A see a few have flown over, desperate to see my words of wisdom on Opera improvements, disappointed to see an empty black blog sporting zappafication and little else
That's all about to change, too late for Kestrel I'm guessing but "better late than never" is starting to become something of a personal motto.
Here's my (pre-Kestrel) list:
- M2 improvements. Edit mail items within M2's database, including subject and body. Especially the facility to remove attachments to keep my (ever-growing) M2 database lean and mean. sgunhouse you pipped me with this, but you'll remember me ranting about it in more than a few forum postings. Forward, reply and redirect HTML components of received emails (although composing is of no interest to me). Simple import/export. GPG/PGP integration.
- More sophisticated searches, including compound criteria and daterange searches. Combined with this, a simple archive and restore facility based on the outcome of these searches, that also archives off any filters associated with messages and their rules, which can be selectively brought back upon restore.
- Printing. It really doesn't work very well in Opera. Font spacing is messed up, and many placeholders don't print properly. Printing in Linux seems worse still.
- Sort out the bookmark management UI. It drives me nuts on default installs!
- A big sweep up of small bug mess. Too numerous to mention. Here's one; opening a .mht then saving as HTML+images causes things to screw up nicely in 9.2x
No more tagging for now. Time for a cuppa tea and an album. Now, what's it gonna be?
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