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Opera 7.00

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Opera 7.00  Change Log

Opera\'s new rendering engine (also known as \"Presto\")
  • Support for page/document reflow
  • Support for DOM (Document Object Model) level 2
  • Support for dynamic HTML
  • Extended CSS2 support, including e.g. styling of form elements
  • 100% ECMAScript support
  • Improved HTML 4.01 support
  • Complete WML 1.3 and 2.0 support
See the Opera specifications for more details.


M2, Opera\'s new e-mail and news client
  • Automatically generated access points, a revolutionary method of viewing and organizing e-mail
  • Support for SMTP authentication
  • Support for news servers with password authentication
  • Integrated spam filter
  • E-mail import
    • Eudora
    • Outlook Express
    • Netscape, versions 6/7
  • Account wizard helps users set up e-mail and news accounts
  • Possible to label messages, which makes messages easily accessible
  • Support for POP3, IMAP, and ESMTP
  • Support for threaded display of mailing lists
  • Quick reply can send a reply without opening a compose window
  • Pressing compose has the following possibilities:
    • When in a newsgroup: will automatically fill in the Newsgroups header
    • In a mailing list: fill in the mailing list as To: header
    • In a contact: view the contact address.
  • It is possible to rename any access point, also rename e.g. Unread to Today (if that\'s your favorite way of viewing e-mail)
  • It is possible to see e-mail from the day, week, month, last 3 months, year, or forever
  • M2 will compress mailboxes automatically (see below)
  • Reply and QuickReply can strip quote levels automatically
  • Support for canceling usenet messages
  • Use the forms multiline font for e-mail compose window so it can be changed from Opera preferences
For more information about M2, please refer to the M2 tutorial.


User interface features
  • New MDI/SDI combination gives users the best of two worlds by allowing surfing in both MDI or SDI, with tabs (or even a combination) without restarting Opera
  • Extended and vastly improved drag-and-drop support
    • Rearrange or move toolbar items using drag-and-drop customization
    • Move bookmarks, tabs, and MDI pages between SDI windows
    • Open or save any page link, or make it a desktop shortcut
    • Rearrange the address, search, and zoom fields
  • Menu items can be moved, added, or removed by editing \"menu.ini\"
  • Support for one-click download-and-install skinning
    • If the server returns content-type \"application/x-opera-skin\" and the file has \"zip\" extension, Opera will download and install the skin directly
  • Color schemes can be selected from the view menu, and new schemes can be added by editing the \"menu.ini\" file
  • Page bar replaces MDI window bar
  • User mode address-bar icon has a drop-down menu that lets you choose alternative ways to view a Web page
  • New 3D buttons
  • Enhanced alphablended effects
  • Introduced FastForward for quick navigation to the next most likely Web page
  • Double-click will select the full URL in Address bar
  • View > Encoding will change encoding immediately
  • Progress line added
  • Status field now draggable
  • \"Paste and go\" added to the address field context menu
  • Minimized pages are now hidden
  • Minimizing a page activates the next one
  • Middle button click closes a page tab
  • Users can drag folders on the Personal bar while pressing Ctrl, or if the \"Customize toolbars\" dialog is open


Hotlist features
  • New floatable download and transfer manager, with drag-and-drop support
  • Bookmarks can be shown as panels
  • History is implemented as a panel
  • E-mail manager
  • Hotlist can float or dock either left or right
  • Single-click opening of bookmarks can be enabled in the \"opera6.ini\" file by changing the \"Hotlist Single Click=0\" setting in the \"[HotListWindow]\" section
  • New links panel
    • Shows links for active window
    • Panel can be \"locked\" to keep the links
    • Drag and drop and quick download
    • Quick-find filter
    • Detect images/music, etc and give them distinct icon
  • New Contacts panel
  • Rearrange, Show, or Hide panels at will


More features
  • Introduced the Wand, a password and form manager
    • Wand shortcut is available from text areas
    • Enabled use of security password in the Wand
  • Installer supports both multiple user accounts (profile strategy) and single-user installation, i.e. Opera can install with separate settings for each user on Windows NT/2000/XP
  • Press Shift+F11 to enable small-screen mode, which emulates a hand-held (small-screen) device running Opera
  • Support for multiple user style sheets, including 100% CSS-made text browser, that can be applied to any Web page
  • New JavaScript console can be opened from \"Window > Special > JavaScript console\"
  • Opera\'s new session manager lets you choose between (multiple) saved sessions from the start-up dialog
  • Opera\'s FTP client supports the EPLF directory format as well as resume download \"guessing\"
  • Added a 14-day banner free period
  • Start-up speed optimization
  • Added support for printing during print preview
  • Added support for the HTTP Content-Location header
  • Added a preference setting to control whether the JavaScript console is auto-created on encountering the first error
  • Added quick download to normal link menus


Accessibility and usability
  • Support for alternate style sheets
  • Built-in accessibility user style sheet
  • Move focus to page elements with Shift+arrow keys
  • Support for access keys on Web pages using Shift+Esc with access key
  • Mouse wheel now affects what is under the cursor, not necessarily what has keyboard focus
  • New navigation bar supports page/document navigation defined using link tags
  • Keyboard shortcuts for all actions can be customized (added, removed, or modified) in \"input.ini\", and Opera even supports shortcut sequences
  • Dynamic on-the-fly generation of access keys in menus
  • Press Shift+Tab to get out of compose window
  • Shortcut for \"Close all but active\", Ctrl+Alt+W
  • Paste and go
    • Pressing Ctrl+D will use clipboard URL to go to new Web page (replaces F8, Ctrl+V, Enter sequence)
    • Also works if focus is set to the Address field or a search field
    • Added to the Address field context menu


Miscellaneous
  • Global setting-file location changed from Windows directory to opera.exe directory -- used to include new settings added by the installer
  • Support for accepting requested pop-ups only
  • Support for favicon and icon files
  • Improved \"Send link in e-mail\", which supports the RFC1738 format
  • Updated \"Identify as MSIE\" version number from 5.5 to 6.0, and added keyboard shortcuts
  • Status bar is off by default, and tooltip for link addresses is on by default
  • DOCTYPE switching enabled (see separate document for details)
  • Imported OpenSSL v0.9.7
  • Help function
    • Files are updated
    • New layout
    • Better support for OperaShow
    • The help will now open in an ordinary browser window
    • Table of contents added
    • Help function makes full use of the Navigation bar
    • Added support for \"opera:/help/\" for direct access to help files


Changelogs after Beta 2
  • M2 will compress mailboxes automatically
    • If a mailbox uses more than 25% of unnecessary disk space, remaining messages are moved to the currently active mailbox and cleared from the old one
    • This happens right after trash is emptied (if needed)
  • Drag-and-drop move between IMAP folders implemented
  • Reply and QuickReply can strip quote levels automatically
  • Added support for cancelling usenet messages
  • Sound alert for new e-mail works
  • Use the forms multiline font for e-mail compose window so it can be changed from Opera preferences
  • Opera will automatically fill in correct values for OperaMail accounts, including SMTP authentication, if \"smtpx.operamail.com\" is kept as server
  • Activated new download dialog
  • Made the Wand shortcut available from text areas
  • Enabled use of security password in the Wand
  • Added support for full name in personal information pop-up menu list
  • Double-click will select the full URL in Address bar
  • View > Encoding will change encoding immediately
  • Progress line added
  • Status field now draggable
  • \"Paste and go\" added
  • Shortcut added for \"Close all but active\" Ctrl+Alt+w (added to Page bar context menus)
  • Minimized pages are now hidden
  • Minimizing a page activates the next one
  • Middle button click closes a page tab
  • Imported OpenSSL v0.9.7
  • The account wizard is opened if user attempts to compose, check, or send messages and no account is present
  • Support for SDI open in background
  • SDI \"new\" gesture will open new window (not new page)
  • Speed column in transfer window is not reset after transfer is done

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