Software-update: Opera 7.60 preview 1

In de support-forums van Opera is de eerste preview van de op handen zijnde versie 7.60 van de gelijknamige browser te vinden. De lijst met veranderingen is lang. Het eerste wat opvalt is als de browser gestart wordt is dat er gekozen kan worden of dat allen de browser moet worden gestart, of als "Internet Suite". Ook is het nu mogelijk om Opera via spraakcommando's te besturen. Verder zou deze versie beter moeten functioneren met Googles GMail en is er aan de TLS-code gesleuteld, wat mogelijk problemen kan opleveren met sommige beveiligde sites. De volledige release notes kunnen hier worden nagelezen, maar hier volgt een opsomming van alle veranderingen:

Changes in 7.60:

• New start-up options
• Speech-enabled browsing
• In-line error pages
• Medium-Screen Rendering
• New support for specifications, including:
  • CSS3 speech module (properties new to CSS3 are prefixed -xv-)
  • XHTML+Voice 1.2
  • XMLHttpRequest, XMLSerializer, and DOMParser (interoperable with existing implementations)
  • DOM 3 Load & Save
  • TLS 1.1 (experimental)
  • TLS ServerName Extensions (experimental)
  • Transparent background (wmode) support for plug-ins
• Display & Rendering (Presto)
  • Stability improvements
  • Numerous bug fixes for HTML, XML, CSS, DOM, and ECMAScript
  • Added Fit to width (MSR) rendering mode
  • Upgraded Small screen rendering mode to include more of the page's styling
  • Fixed handling of nested floats
  • Several fixes related to bidirectional text support
  • Fixed problem where images would stop displaying after using Opera for an extended period of time
  • Added more aggressive error recovery for some HTTP pipeline problems
• Opera Chat
  • Fixed problem connecting to IRC for accounts with more than one server
  • Added ban and kick with reason commands
• Opera Mail (M2)
  • Better handling of multiple e-mail addresses for contacts
  • Improved consistency of newsfeed checking
  • New Mark thread as read command
  • Silently respect a news server's maximum connection count
  • Fixed updating when toggling Mark messages as filtered
  • Better indexing of words for searching
• Printing
  • Fixed problem where form element status was forgotten when toggling print preview
  • Fixed text overlap caused by zooming in print preview
  • Fixed problem where the footer overwrote itself when printing
• User Interface
  • Added new options to the first-time setup dialog
  • Implemented in-line error pages
  • Fixed problem selecting the first letter in a selection with the mouse