Changelog for Opera 9.0 Technology Preview 1 for UNIX
Information
- This is no longer our latest release. Please see our preview release page for more information.
- Build: 1428
- Released: October 20, 2005
Announcements
Release Notes
- This is a preview version of Opera. Use only on properly backed up computers and do not install over previous Opera versions.
- This release uses a new account storage format. If you install over an existing profile, you will be prompted to convert all accounts into the new format. This will not require a re-index. You will not be able to use the reformatted e-mail with previous versions of Opera.
- Emptying trash may prevent new IMAP messages from downloading until Opera is restarted.
- Undeleted IMAP e-mails are returned to trash when checking for new mail.
Changes Since Opera 8.5
User Interface
- Enhanced pop-up blocker to detect more unwanted pop-ups.
- Added new message console for warnings and error messages.
- Added opera:config for managing preferences.
- 'Find' feature now highlights all matches when searching for text on the page.
- Added internal source viewer. Set 'Source viewer' preference to 'Opera' to use the internal source viewer. On new installs, the internal source viewer is enabled by default.
- Implemented tab locking. Right click on a tab and select 'Lock tab'. Individual tabs cannot be closed while they are locked.
- New bookmark icon in address bar.
- Fix to prevent key presses being lost after using Alt+Tab.
- Updated search.ini
- The file version number is now 7. All files with lower version numbers will be overwritten on upgrade.
- New shortcut 'a' for searching with answers.com.
- Changed keyboard shortcuts for closer cross-browser compatibility:
- Ctrl+T replaces Ctrl+N for opening a new tab.
- Ctrl+N opens a new browser window.
- Ctrl+D and Ctrl+Shift+D replace Ctrl+T and Ctrl+Shift+T, respectively, for adding pages to bookmarks.
- Ctrl+Shift+V can be used instead of Ctrl+D for paste-and-go.
Messaging and Newsfeeds
- Enabled new IMAP code.
- New account storage format. If you install over an existing profile, you will be prompted to convert all accounts into the new format. This will not require a re-index.
- Added support for Atom 1.0.
- External embeds are now always allowed in newsfeeds, and are not disabled when the "Surpress external embeds" preference is set.
- Fix to prevent chat windows going blank when redrawing from cache.
Security
- TLS 1.1 and TLS Extensions enabled by default.
- SSL v2 and weak encryption methods (56 bit and lower) are disabled by default. See our knowledgebase for more information.
- Upgraded crypto library to OpenSSL 0.9.8.
Please report problems accessing secure sites that worked in previous versions of Opera.
HTML
- Added support for Web Forms 2.0.
- Implemented support for canvas.
- Improved handling of the align attribute.
- Removed support for XML namespaces in HTML documents.
- Allowed negative numbers in numbered lists.
- Added support for xml:id.
- Added option to re-parse invalid XML documents as HTML after XML parsing has failed.
- Fix to prevent minimized boolean attributes from being ignored if they are followed immediately by a / character.
HTTP
- Changed default UserAgent string to identify as Opera.
- Fixes to prevent delays when using proxy servers.
- Added support for the HTTP Link header.
Scripting
- Added support for XSLT 1.0 and the XSLTProcessor constructor.
- Added support for XPath 1.0.
- Implemented designMode for rich text editing.
- Implemented Node.textContent property from DOM 3 Core.
- Added support for onreadystatechange events, and the readyState property.
- Implemented scripting support for canvas.
- Added window.getSelection, and associated methods.
- XMLHttpRequest returns the status code for the cached page if the request returns the cached page.
- Fix to allow scripts to override a CSS #double #id selector.
- Fix to prevent CSS generated content being duplicated when element contents are changed with scripts.
- Fix to reset scrolling as needed when removing content from an element with overflow.
Plug-ins
- Fixed an issue when printing from Java.
Display
Acid2 fixes
- Several fixes for margin collapsing model.
- Prevented elements from being less than 0 pixels high.
- Create an anonymous table cell around tables inside an anonymous table row.
- Table backgrounds are rendered if the table has dimensions, but no contents.
- :before rules in CSS do not cause unrelated form elements to disappear.
- Margins correctly treated on elements with clear: that follow a float.
- Comments in strict HTML documents are treated as SGML comments.
- Intersection of borders compatible with reference rendering.
- Corrected use of :hover with no element selector.
- Overflow on the HTML element is applied to the viewport.
- Elements with overflow:hidden; can scroll to anchors within them.
Defaults
- Body element now uses margin instead of padding by default.
- UL/OL elements now use padding instead of margin by default.
- DD elements now have a smaller indent.
- Use default handheld font size for handheld stylesheets.
Images
- SVG support increased to partial SVG 1.1 basic.
Selectors
- Added support for CSS 3 attribute and UI selectors.
- Fix to allow combinations of + or *, with :active, :focus, and :hover selectors.
- Fix for combined :hover::after.
- Multiple :first-line fixes.
- :lang() selector no longer applies to xml:lang attributes.
- Improved error handling for nested {}, [], and () blocks.
- Selectors with invalid css identifiers are ignored.
- Improved handling of unicode escape characters in ID selectors.
- Backslash escapes allowed in ID selectors.
- Correctly treat semicolons in @-rules.
- Support media queries in @import rules.
Box, table, and inline
- Removed box model quirk (box-sizing:border-box;) in quirks mode.
- Fixed display:inline; on table rows.
- Fixed percentage widths on button elements.
- Fixed default padding and border spacing on elements with display:table-cell;
- Fix to allow padding in TD and TH elements to detect mouse events and :hover.
- Fix for margin-top being mis-interpreted as padding-top.
Positioning
- Allowed positioned elements to appear in front of iframes and objects.
- Position and dimensions of absolutely positioned and fixed position elements are treated correctly when they are nested inside each other.
- Fix to allow float, position, and z-index to be combined.
- Absolutely positioned elements now take percentage widths relative to their parent container.
Lists and generated content
- Respect list-style even if 'none' is specified for list-style-image.
- List-style-image is now respected on :hover.
- content:attr() now works for 'style' attributes.
- Fixed margins of generated content for inline elements.
Background
- Prevented background color of pseudo elements propagating to parent element.
- Prevented background of html::before overriding background of html.
- Object iframes now accept transparent backgrounds.
Other display
- Fix to prevent fixed positioned elements from remaining visible when hiding them with display: none;
- Fix to prevent positioned content, hidden using overflow, from producing a scrollbar.
- Added support for quotes:none;
- Multiple bidi, decoration, forms and paged media fixes.
- Improved display of frames when 'Fit to window width' is enabled.
Miscellaneous
- Site-specific settings are now available as part of the site-specific ini settings. A User Interface for these settings is not yet available.
- Multiple stability fixes.
UNIX specific fixes
- Improved handling of Verdana font on Linux.
- A version for x86 Solaris is now available.
- A native version for FreeBSD 5 is now available.