Opera Software

These new additions make Opera 3.6 an even better choice for many thousands of users:

• Scaling on nested frames documents optimized
• Linked style sheets duplicate window feature added
• Image memory optimized
• Added stripping of leading spaces on Option values for forms
• Vertical positioning added when walking in History
• Added support for APPLET when a PARAM element had a missing name attribute
• Added linked CSS files for "Save Page and Images as ..."
• Added relative names usagae for links on "Save Page and Images as ..."
• Added checking for duplicate images for "Save Page and Images as ..."
• Changed file name handling for "Save Page and Images as ..."
• Optimized downloads
• Added history handling of frame documents
• Added support for the javascript "onClick" even handler for the SHIFT click keyboard shortcut to open link windows.
• Added support for the opening a new window for the SHIFT click on a link with the javascript "onClick" event handler Layout:
• Added overlapping text handlers
• Optimized page breaks when printing table content
• Added vertical positioning of the marker for ordered lists when line-height is specified
• Changed default values for rows and cols in TEXTAREA element (previous 1 and 1 - now 2 and 20)
• Added support for euro symbol (€).
• Added support for FRAMEMARGINHEIGHT
• Removed default spacing above first block level element (H1, H2, ...) in document and table cells. Also the default spacing below the last block level element.
• CSS
• "height" property now use containing block height and not containing block width.
• Treat   as space when capitalizing text
• Support "media-type" on STYLE element.
• Support linked stylesheets through the META element
• Not allow pseudo-class if not not last in selector.
• Use 'transparent' value of "background-color" property.
• Added parsing for "font" property
• Changed how the value 'auto' is treated for "width" and "margin" properties
• Added support for 'list-image' specified for a list inside a table.
• Added support for 'text-align' in CSS and 'align' in HTML so they will not conflict.
• OTHER:
• Optimised GIF decoding
• Optimised handling of transparent images
• Added support for JS: String.Split() with an empty delimiter
• Minor general optimisations
• Optimised JPEG images for 16 color Windows
• plugin optimization (notably for Shockwave 7)
• GetURL added support for base url for frame documents
• GetURL added support for # from plugins in urls
• relaxed protection against javascript access between windows a bit
• numerous minor javascript updates
• Unsecure login forms
• added more user privacy
• enabled history to save full url
• Protected user against "Cookie Monster"-bug
• Support for Name completetion by proxy added.
  - Users of Intranet servers must enable Preferences->Advanced-> Name Completion->"Look for local network machine" Completion-> manually on new installations of Opera (or when upgrading from pre v3.50)
• Certificate Request pages support added.
• Added support for port numbers to be entered separately in the Proxy preferences
• Tool bar buttons updating optimized
• Changed the hotlist last visited update logic.
• Added support for form checkbox and radiobutton background updating.
• Removed delete warning when using hotlist copy
• Changed the header in the ftp listing from H1 to H3 and reworked a couple of bitmaps used by the ftp listing.
• Changed 16-bits - Default Browser dialog layout.
• Added support for IntelliMouse panning in frames documents and win98.
• Minor cosmetic changes to the hotlist properties dialogs.
• Changed: The 16-bits version defaults to the same font as the one used by "File Manager" with fallback to system default.
• Added: New option in "prefs->Button and status bar" [x] Use System Default When checked (the default) the custom options below will disabled and instead picked from the current system settings.
• Added time field formatting support on the 16 bit version.
• Added: Mini toolbar and caption for the hotlist window.
• Changed: Added warning when deleting a single folder.
• Added: hotlist: support for userorder - when exiting - sorting
• Added: support for doc. containing no real title
• Optimized: Window positioning for "saved windows" between sessions.
• Change: Netscape bookmarks without an URL are not appended during import.
• Optimized: Fullscreen mode between sessions.
• Changed: /NoExit argument is no longer default for kiosk mode and will have to appended manually. E.g. Opera /KioskMode /NoExit
• Added support for the "Stop" menu item in the right-click context-menu.
• Increased the max. length of an URL (<~4K)
• Added: Relative location (I.e doc#rel) is now included (if present) when adding links to the hotlist
• Changed Ctrl+Home shortcut. Now goes to top of doc. (Ctrl+Space shortcut goes to home page)
• Added an entry for the png file type in the "Default Browser" dialog.
• Added "combo auto-complete" (CAC) to the direct addressing dialog and couple of other combos. To disable this feature add the following setting to opera.ini
  [USER PREFS]
  EnableComboAutoComplete = 0
  - To go to the end of the selection during CAC press Ctrl+Space.
  - To temp. disable CAC in a combo enter a space as the first character.
  Tip: If you drop down the list first (Alt+Down) CAC will track the item found. For the "Direct URL addressing" dialog this dropdown will happen automatically if the flag below is present and CAC is enabled
  [USER PREFS]
  DirectURLDialogAutoDropdown = 1
• Added IntelliMouse features. The following shortcuts have been added: Ctrl + Wheel forward/backward = zoom in/out Shift + Wheel forward/backward = forward/back in history
• Added a "Show Links In Frame" dialog. Primary intended for people with low vision. Keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+J. (Dialog settings is preserved in the [ShowLinksDialog] section)
• Changed: Trailing and leading whitespace is stripped from the URL when entering URL's directly.