Opera 7 first beta
Posted on November 13, 2002 @ 14:01 in Software
Sweet! The first beta of the new Opera 7 browser has been released. I'm downloading right now and it seems the servers are being hit hard. Let's see what the (completely?) new engine of my favorite browser can do!
Update: oh... I think I'm in love! This new beta is amazing. Yes, it is faster: it's now easy to scroll while a really heavy page is downloading, and other small niggles have been solved: no more silly borders on CSS defined text boxes, buttons light up in a very cool manner, and most incompatibilities with other browsers seem to have been solved. It now supports different text colors in text boxes, positioning of for instance the drop-down menus on Ninjai.com works just fine and the site navigation that Mozilla also supports works. Some small niggles: I'm not too thrilled with the XP-look interface, but skinning will solve that problem eventually; and uhm... I know it really only works in IE, but I would have loved to have my text-box editing tools in MT (like the bold, italics and URL buttons). Meyerweb's Pure CSS Menu's however still don't work... even seem to be worse off. Well, it's a beta :-)
Update, the morning after: Life's always a little bleaker the morning after, right? Anyway, as Owen Briggs also notes, there are still some issues with O7's CSS rendering (check out the above mentioned Meyerweb examples, or compare Dive Into Mark and Wired with how Mozilla renders them... something funny happening with title sizes and in Mark's case, with the font size as well). Another thing that potentially is a problem, is that O7 renders drop-down lists as seen on this page quite large (due to the XP-style widget) which might mess up some more tightly spaced designs, as I haven't yet seen how this behavior could be controlled by HTML or CSS. Also the backspace key doesn't work and I can't sort the bookmarks according to my preferred order, but this is a beta we should remember.
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