7.50 Preview 3 for Mac
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- This is no longer our latest release. Please see our preview release page for more information.
- Build: 1701
- Released: March 16, 2004
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This release is unfinished and unsupported beta-quality software. It cannot be registered or purchased at this time, but will not expire. This release requires Mac OS X 10.1 or later. We recommend always using the latest operating system updates. Please use the latest release of Macromedia Flash.
As with all our preview and beta releases, please discuss this release in opera.mac, the Opera for Mac Forum, or #opera on irc.opera.com.
Planned Enhancements for 7.50 Final
- Support for Unicode keyboard layouts
- Synchronization with Address book
- Support for Liveconnect
Major new features
Presto!
This release sports Opera 7's Presto rendering engine. The rendering engine was rebuilt from scratch for blazing fast speed, improved standards support, and bidirectional text display. Check out our documentation for an overview of our standards support.
Opera Mail
Also in this release is Opera Mail (the e-mail client formerly known as M2), Opera's revolutionary e-mail, news, and newsfeed client. This is the first time Opera for Mac includes the ability to manage your personal messages. Opera Mail takes the work out of organizing your messages, making it easier to find and deal with the messages that matter to you most.
Opera Chat
Opera now has experimental support for IRC, our first protocol back-end for Chat. You can easily setup a chat account Chat menu by selecting New account
. Chat channel and server information is shown in the Chat panel. Additionally, you can use Chat > List rooms (Cmd+Alt+J) to list available channels once you've connected to a server. To aid in testing and to give Opera enthusiasts a place to hang out, we have setup our own IRC network: OperaNet. There are currently two servers: irc.opera.com and irc.se.opera.com.
Mac OS X Integration
In addition to our integration with Keychain, information is imported from Address book to contacts for use with Opera Mail. Your Safari bookmarks will automatically be imported, too. With the Mac Native skin, Opera follows the look of your operating system. Opera 7 will tell you if you have a stored password for the current site by highlighting the username/password fields. Login information can then be retrieved by clicking the Wand icon or by using the keyboard shortcut Cmd+Enter.
Detailed Enhancements
Presto, Opera's Rendering Engine
- Support for bi-directional languages
- Support for page/document reflow
- Support for DOM (Document Object Model) level 2
- Support for dynamic HTML
- Extended CSS2 support, including e.g. styling of form elements
- Improved HTML 4.01 support
- Added support for SCRIPT in XML
- DOCTYPE switching enabled (see separate document for details)
- 100% ECMAScript support. New JavaScript console
Opera Mail
- Perfectly integrated with the Opera browser
- Automatically generated access points, including auto-detection and threaded display of mailing lists
- Support for Usenet news servers with password authentication
- Support for SMTP authentication
- Learning spam filter and custom filters
- Filters support regular expressions
- Messages can be labeled by importance, status, etc.
- Support for POP3, IMAP, and ESMTP
- Quick reply - send reply without opening a compose window
- Support for RSS newsfeeds
- RSS 0.9x, 1.0 and 2.0 are supported
Newsfeeds
added as access point in the e-mail panel- Clicking RSS link automatically adds newsfeed to Opera Mail
- Context-sensitive automatic filling of to-headers
- Choose timespan for visible e-mail messsages - one day, last week, last month, last 3 months, last year, or forever
- Personal information or the content of any Opera note can be added to messages from the context menu
User Interface
- New Panels feature, making the information you want within your reach
- Start panel - allowing quick, customizable access to searches
- Notes panel - write reminders or annotate web sites
- Links panel - lists all the links on the current page and allows you to quickly download groups of files in just a couple of clicks
- Transfers panel - lists all your downloads and file transfers from chat
- Introduced
Fast Forward
for quick navigation by auto-detection of next
-type links (Forward
button changes automatically when available)
- Session manager - choose between multiple saved sessions from the start-up dialog
- New
Tools
menu gathers handling of preferences, deleting of private data, etc.
- Extended drag-and-drop support, notably in toolbars, bookmarks and e-mail panel
- Support for one-click download-and-install skinning -- skin is applied directly, but deleted from disk if user opts not to keep the skin
- Color schemes can be selected from the
View
menu
Accessibility and Usability
- Support for alternate style sheets
- Built-in accessibility user style sheet
- Support for multiple user style sheets, including 100% CSS-made text browser, that can be applied to any Web page
- User mode address-bar icon has a drop-down menu that lets you choose alternative ways to view a Web page
- Press Alt+Shift+F11 to enable Small-Screen Rendering (SSR), which emulates a handheld (small-screen) device running Opera
- Move focus to page elements with Shift+arrow keys
- Multiple new keyboard shortcuts increase accessibility. For a full listing of existing shortcuts, press Cmd+B while using the latest Opera version. Keyboard shortcuts for all actions can also be customized in Mouse and keyboard Preferences
- New navigation bar supports page/document navigation defined using link tags
- Dynamic on-the-fly generation of access keys in menus
- Paste and go - pressing Cmd+D will use clipboard URL to go to new Web page (replaces the sequence of focusing address field, pasting address and hitting Return
Miscellaneous
- Choose between Google relevant ads and a generic selection of banner ads in the ad-sponsored version of Opera. Read more about Opera Browser Google Ads.
- Support for accepting requested pop-ups only