Opera 10 Alpha 1 for Windows

by Michael Aulia on 8 December, 2008

Opera If you are using Opera as your browser, then you’ll probably intersted to try Opera 10 (still in Alpha).

It gives a boost of performance increase, a perfect score for ACID 3 test (What is ACID 3?), Opera Mail improvements, and many more.

Opera 10 changes since 9.62 release:

Presto

Opera 10.0 includes the Presto 2.2 rendering engine. Detailed changes since Presto 2.1.1 are listed below:

Rendering

Significant performance improvements
Added Web font support, allowing the download of fonts specified in font descriptors in @font-face at-rules; TrueType (TTF), OpenType (OTF), and SVG fonts are supported (demos)
Achieved 100/100 and pixel-perfect rendering on the Acid3 test
Pretty-printing of unstyled XML (using unstyledxml.css in the Styles sub-directory of Opera’s installation directory)
Added support for CSS3 RGBA color values (demo)
Added support for CSS3 HSLA color values (demo)
Added support for the CSS3 color: transparent value
Improved HTML5 support, including end-tag and start-tag parsing, whitespace parsing, and DOCTYPE parsing
CSS files must be served with the correct MIME type (“text/css”) in Strict mode or they will be ignored

JavaScript/DOM

New regular expression engine, which greatly improves performance on regular-expression-heavy pages such as the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark
Added support for the W3C Selectors API
Renamed the objects returned by getClientRects() and getBoundingClientRect() to ClientRectList and ClientRect instead of TextRectangle and TextRectangleList, respectively
XMLHttpRequests will now trigger start-loading/end-loading events
Removed the proprietary window.setDocument method
Added support for the SVGElement.currentFps and SVGElement.targetFps properties to read and control, respectively, SVG frames per second
The load event for scripts is now sent after the script is executed rather than before
The load event is now sent to frame/iframe/object elements before it is sent to the document
A highlight will no longer be added when HTMLElement.focus() is called unless keyboard navigation is already activated

Read Opera 10 full changelog since the official release of 9.62, here.

To download Opera 10 Alpha 1, check out the official release page on the Opera Desktop Team blog.

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Lyndi 8 December, 2008 at 4:27 am

Thanks for the information, I have been waiting for this for a while now. I just downloaded the new version.

On my site I use some CSS3 to round the corners on some of the blocks used on the theme. Opera (like IE) has always had a problem with this stuff and instead of seeing rounded corners I just saw very square corners. I was hoping the Opera side of this problem would now be gone but alas, no, the problem is still there. They have included some of the CSS3 stuff but not that which I am interested in. Cannot win ‘em all. Thanks again.

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Michael Aulia 9 December, 2008 at 12:49 am: That’s what I hate about designing websites.. you’ve got to try them on all possible browsers and each displays it differently Lucky I’m just a developer on my full time work!

Salem 8 December, 2008 at 11:05 am

The Acid3 test is a rendering test for browsers. Firefox 3 gets a 71, for example;
http://acid3.acidtests.org/

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Michael Aulia 8 December, 2008 at 1:14 pm: Oh, I actually meant to put a link on the “What is ACID 3″ sentence to Wikipaedia before. Post updated but thanks for putting it into a simpler term

Nihar 8 December, 2008 at 1:12 pm

Looks like you have good knowledge about CSS and other HTML Stuff.

Thanks for the info.

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Michael Aulia 9 December, 2008 at 12:49 am: Umm honestly, not really lol. I was just copy-pasting the changelog from the official page. Lyndi is the lady you are looking for on that area

Leon 9 December, 2008 at 2:55 pm