Opera 9.0 released
Filed under: Announcements, Opera
By Sebastian Werner @ June 20, 2006 6:48 pm
As you maybe already know, Opera has today announced the new major version of the Opera browser. For me it seems to be again faster than the previous major version. The loading times and interface speed seems to be quite good using typical qooxdoo widgets. In my opinion the most interessant new features are:
- Valid ACID2 rendering
- Support for the SVG Basic profile
- Support for Microsoft's designmode and contenteditable extensions
- Canvas support
- Some support of parts of CSS3
- JavaScript console is now Error console and can display messages, warnings, and errors from different sources.
- Added support for -o-text-overflow:ellipsis, synonymous to text-overflow:ellipsis
- UL/OL elements now use padding instead of margin by default.
- Added support for XSLT 1.0 and the XSLTProcessor constructor.
- Added support for XPath 1.0.
- Added support for onmousewheel events.
- Improved handling of offsetTop, offsetLeft, and offsetParent.
This makes me really happy. Together with the overall performance improvement, the new features like canvas could really support a break-through for some new features to the web.
Comment by Jim Hunter
After testing 9.0 with the demos posted on the ‘old site’, many of the demos cause Opera to freeze up and stop responding. So I guess this is not a perfect version for qooxdoo users yet.
June 21, 2006 8:11 pm
Comment by Sebastian
Hey Jim, have you found any concrete reproduceable cases/examples?
June 21, 2006 8:18 pm
Comment by Jim Hunter
Yes, none of the ListView examples work, and the ImageList example didn’t work. I stopped trying after those 5 all failed. The color picker example did work. And when I tried to run my current application in it (it did run in 8.54) I only get about 20% of the screen painted. Unfortunately, I am not able to bring up the debug window at this time in order to give you more information.
June 22, 2006 12:04 am
Comment by Sebastian
On my computer Opera 9.0 runs well. Even the ListView example. I use a Windows XP machine. Maybe there is another difference.
June 24, 2006 8:09 am
Comment by Jim Hunter
I tried many times, even re-booted and then tried the demos and they never worked. But today, they seem to be working just fine in 9.0. Bizzare, but at least it’s running now.
Thanks,
Jim
June 28, 2006 9:49 pm