Kool Lite Tools - Opera 10.60

Features of Opera 9.5

Display and Scripting

Rendering Engine

Fixed numerous stability issues

Plugged numerous memory leaks

Plethora of performance improvements throughout

Added support for the CSS3 overflow-x and overflow-y properties (demo)

Added support for the CSS3 text-shadow property (demo)

Added support for the CSS3 Selectors (demo)

Added support for the CSS3 outline-offset property (demos)

Added support for the CSS3 background-size property (only accessible via the custom -o-background-size property)

Added support for the CSS3 currentColor color keyword

Added support for the CSS2.1 white-space: pre-line value

Added support for the :-o-prefocus pseudo-class, which allows styling of form elements reached via spatial navigation

Added support for the custom -o-language-string(n) property for use in User and Internal Stylesheets to allow localized strings in stylesheets

Added support for the custom -o-table-baseline property, used to determine which row of an inline-table will be used as the baseline of the table. The property accepts either an integer or inherit value, where the integer refers to the table row to use as the table's baseline. -1 refers to the last row of the table and -n refers to the nth row from the bottom. If the integer value is 0, the bottom margin edge of the table will be treated as the table's baseline. The initial value is 1. This property only applies to inline-tables

Added support for the label attribute of option elements

Greatly improved table layout algorithm

Major improvements to the shrink-wrapping algorithm

Greatly improved support for the CSS outline property

Support the min-width and max-width properties for elements styled with display: table-cell (such as td and th elements)

Improved the handling of vertical alignment changes for form elements

No longer use font-variant: small-caps for acronym elements

Disallow use of percentage width values for the border-width property

Removed support for class selectors starting with a digit in Quirks mode

rowspan=0 is now also supported in Quirks mode

Fixed problem where the :lang() selector did not correctly match the full string

Improved support for @import, @media, @namespace, and @page at-rules

Fixed problem where the background-attachment property did not apply in ::first-line contexts

Fixed error handling of nobr tag

Fixed problem preventing elements with height: inherit from inheriting the computed value of height

Support the color attribute for hr elements

Fixed layout problems on TV.com caused by using <li">

Updated tabindex attribute handling: any element with a tabindex that is a positive number should be reachable by tabbing. Elements with a negative tabindex should never be reachable by tabbing

Fixed problem with the scrollbar at BlogLines.com

Give multi-select elements a reasonable default size

Fixed problem with large decimal em values being rounded to nearest integer (demo)

Support overflow in inline-table and inline-block elements, which fixes unclickable links and truncated content on Dell.com

Fixed problem where certain MHTML files displayed blank until resizing the page

Fixed redraw problem when reducing the width of td elements via DOM

Support for the display: table-column and table-column-group values on elements other than col and colgroup

Fix rounding error when calculating percentage font-sizes

Fixed problem where links in floated elements were not clickable, which caused problems with WordPress web sites

Fixed problem with using percentage height on blocks inside table cells

Resolved issue where linebreaks were shown in the title of XML documents

Allow changing the background of input type=image elements

Fixed incorrect use of padding on table elements when setting the border-spacing property and using the separated-border model

Fixed problems with negative margins on caption elements causing the captions to display far, far to the right, as seen at Wachovia.com

Inherit frameset encoding into frame documents, using the same restrictions as used for inline frames

Add HTML5 entity &TRADE; as an alias to ™

Media queries are now dynamic, allowing them to update when the window size is changed not just when the page loads

Fixed problems displaying full-screen YouTube videos

Fixed problems focusing the message composition area on Gmail

Store the original strings in HTML attributes for use by CSS selectors and DOM

JavaScript/DOM

Rewritten ECMAscript engine, which is more flexible and uses less memory

Added support for JavaScript 1.5 efining_Getters_and_Setters">Getters and Setters

Added support for the DOM 3 Core Node.isSameNode method

Added support for the DOM 3 Core Text.wholeText attribute and Text.replaceWholeText method

Added support for the DOM 3 Core Node.compareDocumentPosition method (used by Google Pages)

Added support for the Microsoft XML DOM Node.selectNodes and Node.selectSingleNode methods

Added support for the Gecko DOM Range.comparePoint method (used by Google Pages)

Added support for the HTML5 {Document,Element}.getElementsByClassName method

Added support for the HTML5 Navigator.onLine attribute and the Window.{online,offline} events

Added support for the HTML5 Canvas.getImageData and Canvas.putImageData methods, including support for creating an ImageData object using the ImageData interface

Added support for the HTML5 Canvas.transform, Canvas.setTransform, and Canvas.isPointInPath methods

Added support for the HTML5 Element.tabindex attribute and the Element.{blur,focus} methods

Added support for the Microsoft XMLDocument class used for all XML documents (except SVG and XHTML) for cross-browser consistency. The DOM 3 Load and Save Document.async attribute and Document.load method will no longer work in the Document class

Added support for the document.moveFocus{left,right,up,down} methods for directing spatial navigation via JavaScript

Added support for the start and stop methods of marquee elements

Insert em tag instead of i tag when using italic execCommand parameter

Fixed problems changing the font size of textarea elements via DOM

Fixed problem that caused non-breaking spaces to be inserted in textarea elements as seen at Gmail

Corrected name of LSLoadEvent.input attribute (was LSLoadEvent.filter)

Fixed various bugs where mouse events had built-in effects before script event processing was finished (cancelled mousedown should not move focus, blur/focus events caused by mousedown event should be processed after rather than before the mousedown event causing them, and so on)

Stopped showing text nodes in script and style elements when using the Document.all collection

Trigger an onload event for images set to display:none

Fixed canvas locking in the 2dgame context to allow updating when the canvas is locked and fixed the update function to actually work

Disabled Document.length, as it caused problems in the Apple.com CoverFlow demo

Remove the text attribute from the HTMLSelectElement collection

Date.getYear() now returns full year when the year is > 1999 or < 1900 for cross-browser compatibility (despite breaking the JS spec.)

Removed IE-compatibility where Document.getElementById treated name and id attributes the same, which caused problems with jQuery

No longer share events between the Window and Document objects

Fixed problem where the Date method with an out of range day parameter became the current date and other cross-browser consistency issues

No longer create multiple text nodes when there's more than 32KB of data in the text node

Fixed problem changing the type attribute of button elements

Fixed problem where setting the scrollTop attribute for textarea elements didn't scroll the textarea contents

Several fixes to Document.activeElement to make it work more consistently

Give xml tags within HTML documents a documentElement attribute

XMLHttpRequest now resolves URLs according to the HTML base element

Event.keyCode will now return keyboard codes for punctuation keys in addition to alphanumeric keys, which fixes issues with keyboard navigation at Gmail

Fixed problem displaying maps on theaa.com caused by scrollTop working on both the html and body element simultaneously

Document.body.{clientHeight,clientWidth} and Document.documentElement.{clientHeight,clientWidth} now return the correct values in Strict mode, which fixes issues with Novell GroupWise

Made event capturing more cross-browser compatible: No longer capture load events if listener is attached to the window and fire capturing events at target; attach listeners to the document object if you need to capture load events from within the document

No longer lose the value of an input element created via DOM when changing the type attribute, which caused problems when editing del.icio.us bookmarks

SVG

Added partial SVG Tiny 1.2 support

Added support for using SVGs in img elements and the CSS background-image and list-style-image properties

Added external reference support for SVGs

Rich Text Input

Use line/paragraph breaking in rich text editor: Enter should insert block-break (new paragraph) and Shift+Enter should insert line-break (br element)

Improved handling of inserted and removed elements

Other

Fixed numerous inconsistencies and specification violations in the SVG, DOM, WML, Web Forms 2.0, XPath, and XSLT implementations

Added support for UAX #14 Line Breaking Properties and UAX #29 Text Boundaries annexes

XSLT document() function will no longer cause an XSLT processing error if it is not called

Enabled RTL support in text inputs (including Opera Mail) and form elements

Fixed problem where the HttpURLConnection Java object did not support getHeaderField and getHeaderFieldKey

Allow installation of certificates that generate warnings

Always obey server-set Expiry header

User Interface

Opera Link: bookmarks, Personal bar, and Speed Dial data can be synchronized via my.opera.com; access via the File > Synchronize with My Opera menu option; the most recent Speed Dial data will always be used when synchronizing

Redesigned Address bar drop-down displayed when entering text in the Address bar:
- Includes excerpts from previously visited pages
- Improved visual design
- Orders entries by popularity
- Local file auto-completion

Re-enabled Status bar by default and moved some UI elements from View bar to Status bar

Removed View bar

Simplified Download dialog

Closed windows are now also displayed in the Trash can and the Window > Closed menu

"Open with" functionality added to web page context menu and Transfer panel/page

Content blocking improvements:
- Added site-specific toggling of content blocking
- Fixed problem where opening the Details dialog for a page would cause some blocked paths to change
- Double-clicking entries in the Details dialog now edits them
- Only show filters that cause content to be blocked on the current page in the Details dialog
- CSS and JS files matching blocked patterns are now also shown in the Details dialog

Redesigned certificate warning dialog

Added Undo for Speed Dial

Added Quick find to the Windows panel

Improved thumbnail rendering quality

Improved use of ellipses throughout user interface

Only display one thumbnail in the tab cycle dialog (Ctrl/Option+Tab)

Disabled dragging links/favicons to arbitrary toolbars (exceptions: Personal bar and opera: buttons); hold Shift or open the Tools > Appearances dialog to enable dragging

Fixed problem where the window resizer only worked in a small percentage of the region that it should

Close the correct tab when attempting to close an inactive tab via the Windows panel

Fixed problem with tabs being upside down when the Page bar is at the bottom

Fixed problem with over-zealous generation of toolbar files

Abort start-up when closing the Start-up dialog

Fixed problem with multi-word bookmark nicknames

Fixed problem where changing the language file closes Preferences

Switch to the locked tab when clicking its locked icon

Wand will no longer block form submits, making it possible to see if login was successful before storing your login credentials

Fixed problem where the Error Console was not cleared after being reopened

Fixed problem removing scrollbar styling once it's deactivated

Spelling check now works in single-line inputs, too

Default to saving as Web archives and remember format selection

Switch to title casing for menu text

Fixed problem dragging notes when no tab was active

Customization

Allow cascading dialog.ini files

Added new delay action for setup files: delay, X where X is milliseconds. It will delay asynchronously the rest of the actions defined in the string until the specified time has expired

Make [Cycler Button Skin] section in skins work correctly

Added .mini toolbar state (used in the Status bar) to make buttons and padding 80% of normal size

Moved several files into the "defaults" profile sub-directory for improved consistency

Added PluginInitialized User JS event

Accessibility

Major refactoring of keyboard shortcuts

Experimental screen reader support:
- Added support for Microsoft Active Accessibility API (MSAA)
- Preliminary support for Window-Eyes, JAWS, NVDA, and OS X VoiceOver
- Collaborated with GW Micro on improved compatibility with future releases of Window-Eyes
- Basic implementation of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)

Spatial navigation improvements:
- Restore navigated element when moving in history
- All keyboard navigation methods (spatial navigation, Ctrl/Cmd+Up/Down, inline find, etc.) should now work based on the same elements, which allows you to use spatial navigation after inline find, etc.

Fixed problem with Tab key navigation finding form elements beyond the current page when navigating history

The scrollbar now touches the edge of the screen when the window is maximized to better adhere to Fitts' Law

Keyboard shortcuts using Ctrl/Cmd+Shift no longer always open in a background tab

Mail/News

Back-ends

Performance improvements, including reduced memory usage, reduced disk accesses, and reduced freezing when checking for new mail/newsfeeds

Improved IMAP reliability, especially when fetching mail with multiple clients

When using "Leave messages on server", POP3 messages are permanently removed from the server when the Trash view is emptied (disable by setting "Permanent delete=0" for the relevant account in accounts.ini)

Connections are no longer initiated before the Start-up dialog is dismissed

Experimental IMAP Keyword support: messages marked as Spam will automatically be marked with the $Spam keyword; existing keywords will generate new filters

Fixed several problems handling multipart messages and message attachments, including messages sent from Apple Mail

Fixed problems updating the list of newsgroups available on a server

Messages in the selected IMAP sent folder will be shown in the Sent view

Fixed problem where mail was never sent if it initially failed to send

User Interface

New, experimental notification system: each message will generate a notification, though one notification per account will appear if more than three messages are received

Refreshed Mail panel, which replaces the status pane with account icons

Pressing F5 will check for new messages in the current view; useful for manually checking for new newsfeeds

Replaced "Save as draft" button in the Compose window with a "Discard draft" button: drafts are auto-saved once text is entered in the message body

IMAP folders are displayed in a hierarchy, as appropriate

The Mail panel now indicates nested filters or mailboxes

Users can now decide how many messages to download when subscribing to a newsgroup

Message thread expansion/collapse is now performed only by clicking the thread triangle in front of the message subject, not when clicking the message subject text

Fixed problems overriding encoding of received messages via the View > Encoding menu

Fixed problem where a filter named "INBOX" could not be edited or deleted

Fixed multiple problems caused by using a master password

Mail passwords are now stored in the Wand password database

Improved selection tracking in message lists (for instance, when toggling threading in a view, scrolling, etc.)

Fixed a couple of issues that could hamper proper threading<;/li>
Fixed problem where replying always quoted the text/html portion of multipart/alternative messages

Correctly delete subscribed newsfeeds when requested to do so

Added option to filter/search based on message bodies only

Improved spatial navigation of messages

Added Ctrl/Cmd+S shortcut to add attachments to messages

Import

Made Netscape, Eudora, and Opera 5/6 import options available cross-platform

Fixed problem importing mail from Thunderbird

;;Fixed multiple problems with the Outlook Express importer

Fixed problem sending mail from accounts created by importing mail

Chat

Notifications can be limited to private messages rather than all channel activity (can be enabled in Preferences > Advanced > Notifications)

Miscellaneous

New internal page, opera:historysearch, which searches the content of visited pages

Redesigned Info panel: it now includes the page display mode, download date, META tags, links to stylesheets and JavaScript files, etc.

Cache files no longer use file extensions

Added "Drag to scroll" (disabled by default) which allows scrolling by "grabbing" the page, much like on mobile phones with touch screens

Numerous improvements to mailto link handling

Automatic page refreshing can now be overridden via the "Reload every" context menu item

Fixed problem with pages/bookmarks showing the incorrect favicon

No longer attempt to follow automatic redirects when navigating in history

Improvements to handling of full hard disks

Partial Extended Validation certificate support: no user interface has been added yet

Added support for the httpOnly parameter of the Set-Cookie header

Disable "Allow raising of windows" by default

Fixed problem disabling plug-ins via plugin-ignore.ini

Added support for the BitTorrent peer exchange protocol, which is compatible with libtorrent and ÂµTorrent

Increased network buffer size (opera:config#Performance|NetworkBufferSize) from 32KB to 128KB

Added support for JIS X 0212 in EUC-JP code set 3 and ISO-2022-JP

Added support for JIS-Roman output in ISO-2022-JP

Enabled auto-detection of ISO-2022-JP-1 support

Added zh-SG and zh-MO as known language codes and SG and MO as country codes for selecting Chinese variant

Windows-specific

Associate Opera with .xhtml, .mht, .svg, and .torrent files

Removed option to associate Opera with URL Shortcuts

Auto-scroll icon now appears where clicked instead of centered on the page

Add drop-down shadows on Windows 2000, XP, and Vista if Control Panel > Display > Appearance > Effects > Show shadows under menus is enabled

Better support for the Default program settings dialog in Windows XP and Vista

Dropped support for Winsock 1

Fixed problem where transparent GIFs used as backgrounds would turn black when the page was zoomed