Changelog for Opera 7.20 beta 7 for linux

Opera version 7.20 beta 7 is now available for download.

Changelog

Document and page layout

Implemented BiDi support
Fine-tuning for speed in page rendering & JavaScript
Use label property on multi line edits to disable unwanted popup menus and selection possibility
Removed caption for image documents
Get locale from OS and use corresponding code page
Support "list-style-type" value "decimal-leading-zero"
Bottom margin fix plus optimizations
Use smaller bullets in handheld mode
Various updates and improvements for handheld mode
Implemented <marquee>
Implemented <blink>
% height on tables
Fix for not collapsing leading whitespace after floats
Skip only one line break at the beginning of a text area
Single line forms text color should now be set correctly
ISINDEX fixes
Spatial navigation highlighting fix
Support for action="mailto:..." in form elements
Smarter redraw during page loading

Protocols and data flow

New URL scheme supported: data (RFC 2397)
Support for encoding unrepresentable characters in output as HTML entities (for use in forms)
Changed default Accept header: "application/xml" instead of "application/xhtml"
Accept header change ("XHTML+XML" and "XHTML")
Removed Send charset to validator
Added experimental support for IPv6
Detect and report network errors

Fonts

Various minor improvements and bugfixes in font handling
Support for unicode characters outside plane 0 - currently only for Xft fonts
Support for Arabic shaping/joining of unicode characters U+0621 - U+06D3, as well as alef-lam ligatures. Still no support for combining diacritics

Images and animation

Enabled synchronized animations
GIF animation fixes
Improved image display speed

Color management

Improved support for 8 bit color depth display (speed-up and dithering)
Repaired support for truecolor visual on Solaris

Java

Java now loads files through opera. Fixes problem with java not working through proxies
Added compatibility code to let Java run quite a few "invalid" applets

Plug-in

Opera no longer gets confused after flash has shown right click menu
Using keypad numbers as input to flash is fixed
Made an attempted workaround for the hanging flash problem
Cleanup in plug-in listing related to file type. A plug-in could be listed several times and for file types it should not have been associated with

Input methods

Cancelling input should now work
Some doubling of characters and strings should be fixed

Skinning

Support for CPU friendly Windows-like skin
Improved support for skinning in the menubar

Hotlist

Fixed a re-parenting problem in the hotlist that would result in lost bookmarks/contacts/notes: Moving a parent folder into a child folder
Do not place a copy of a bookmark/contact in trash when CUT'ing it
Show an error dialog box if a hotlist list could not be saved to file
Fixed a sort sync problem (hotlist vs bookmark menu)
Fixed a bookmark parser problem that prevented old bookmark files (pre version 6) from being imported
Do not use 'BASEURL=' but 'URL=' in ie-explorer favorites import

パネル

Context menu support in Window panel
Pressing Enter/Return will now activate the selected page in Windows panel
Show an archive icon for files with extension 'gz' in Links panel
Clear Links panel when closing a window (use lock if you want to keep them around)
Enabled drag and drop within the Windows panel
Fixes to URL handling in Notes panel

Toolbars and menus

New "Closed" menu under the "Window" menu on the main menu bar listing the 100 last closed windows
Added support for bolded menu items
Improved the algorithm that assigns accelerators to a popup menu entries. It could make duplicates depending on the menu structure
Added context menu support (activated from keyboard) in hotlist toolbar
Added find in page to "Customize toolbar" dialog box
Added a "Clear" button that can be used to erase contents of the address entry field. Use "Customize toolbar" dialog box to activate it
Support for opening a page at a specified index in the page bar. Enhances drag and drop functionality
Move keyboard focus to document when pressing Esc in search dropdown, zoom dropdown and search edit fields
Let "Compose" from document popup menu use the mailto address of the clicked link
Page cycler popup window will now expand into a new column when needed
Support for toolbar extender in page and personal bar. Enable "Show extender" in the page and personal bar context menus to use it.
Proper enable/disable handling of "Add all to bookmarks"
Disable Copy and Cut menu entries for edit fields that contain a password (the Copy and Cut handling itself was already disabled)
Fixed overflow problem in progress bar for large documents (percent value became negative, or just wrong in general)
Made the page cycler popup window work when activated with mouse button and wheel

Dialogs

Fixed a number of mime type problems regarding download dialog handling
Added support for confirmation when closing all pages or closing all but active page
Append addresses that are entered from the "Go to" dialog box (F2) to the typed history list
Added a "Minimize" button to the JavaScript console
Show image file name (excluding path) in image property dialog caption
New settings in Preferences dialog
1. Load default (fallback) language file when changing UI language [Languages]
2. Give page background color to documents when updated. No longer required to restart to see the change [Page style]
3. Added option to style forms and/or scrollbars [Page style]
4. Added "Smooth scrolling" option [Windows]
5. Added "Open new page next to active page" option [Windows]
6. Added option to tune delay before page is updated [Windows]
7. Simplified interface for setting up trusted protocols and external programs [Programs and paths]
8. Hide "Close dialup commentions" checkbox if RAS is not defined [Start and exit]
Added "Pass web address directly to application" checkbox. Activate in "File type" dialog box
Save and restore "Show hidden files" and "Detail mode" settings in the file selector dialog box
Fixed a dialog problem that could lead to a crash. If many modal dialogs were opened at the same time the parent relationship could be corrupted
Fixed a download problem that caused direct download to show the "Save as" dialog box
Fixed some problems with the saved folder location. It was lost when using the download dialog
Fixed a problem that caused the file selector dialog to start with the saved save-directory even in file-open mode
Reopen save dialog if selected file exists and user do not want to overwrite current file

Mouse, keyboard and shortcuts

Ctrl+Alt+Z available as shortcut for reopening most recently closed page
Fix for entering special characters into edit fields while at the same time supporting various shortcuts. Differentiate between the special AltGr key and the left Control+Alt key combo, so that it is now possible to press AltGr+some key for special characters, but also Alt+Control+same key to produce a shortcut instead
Let special forward mouse buttons try fast forward if no normal forward
Support for function keys F13 to F20
Support for Copy, Paste and Cut keys on Sun keyboards
Do not copy text to mouse selection clipboard when moving focus to url field with F8

Actions

Added "Open background image" action
Close page action returns false if nothing to close (makes it possible to do "Close page | Exit" kind of actions)
Moved handling of "Clear disk cache", "Clear visited history" and "Clear typed in history" actions to allow shortcut support
"Maximize frame" shall always open in the same page
Added support for "Execute program" action
Added support for symbolic "COMMA" and "SEMICOLON" tags for use in shortcut files

Drag and drop (DnD)

Support for accepting DnD from remote applications (using xdnd protocol) and dragging to other applications. Opera supports url and text drags
Added support for transforming a dragged filename "file://localhost/..." to "file:/..." Some programs (eg. xmms) use the latter. The option must be set in opera6.ini:
```
  [User Prefs]
  Localhost In DnD=0|1 (1 is default)
```

Added support for disabling drags. The option must be set in opera6.ini

  [User Prefs]
  Enable Drag=3 (default)
  1=links
  2=bookmarks
  3=links and bookmarks

It is now possible to drag links from the mail view and the web panels
Fixed a drag and drop problem that occured when the drop action opened a dialog window. The dialog window would prevent a proper drop

ウィンドウの管理

The saved windows sizes in session files were in some cases wrong. This would cause problem when normalizing a maximized window after a session was loaded. The window could be opened outsize the visible workspace
Top level windows will now not open outsize or partly outside the visible desktop area. This could happen with certain window managers
Improved the cascading of top level windows. It could be difficult to understand a new window has been opened because it opened right above the current window
Added support for WM_WINDOW_ROLE property
Added support for "Placement by Opera" preference setting. This allows toplevel windows to not be positioned by opera, but rather the window manager when the window opens.
```
  [User Prefs]
  Window Placement By Opera=0|1 (1 is default setting)
```
Fixed a synchronization problem when minimizing a document page. The corresponding page tab would not always indicate the minimized state
Fixed an "open in background" problem when the source window was a non-maximized page. The new page would be activated
Improved handling when closing a page. If a maximized page is closed then the new active page will not be maximized if it was not already maximized
Correct behavior for "always cascade" page setup mode

Privacy and security

Added Actalis Root Certificate
Improved Server Manager dialog. Now possible to press Delete on a server item and the most logical things will happen, depending on context:
- Server and associated cookies are removed
- Server and associated wand logins are removed
- Server and both cookies and logins are removed
- Server is reset to default cookie filter
Changed Trusted protocol handling to also check URLs that do not use "://" in the URL, only checks for ":" before checking against the list of trusted protocols
Adjusted security password policy: Minimum 6 characters and either
1. At least one alphabetic character and one non-alphabetic character, or
2. At least one character from a non-western european character set (specifically: not Latin-1)
On non-file/non-javascript URLs we remove the %XX escaping for "." and "/" in the path component of the URL and processes all resulting "/./" and "/../" segments, not just the unencoded ones. This is done in order to fix a cookie path processing vulnerability that also requires certain XSS vulnerabilities serverside to be successful.
Manually setting authentication method should overrule reported CAPA capabilities.

M2, Opera's new e-mail and news client

Initial support for mail export to mbox format added for Access points/views
Improvements to the internal spam filter
Make sure internal spam filter never is applied to news messages or outgoing mail
Implemented new authentication-system in NNTP. Added support for CRAM-MD5
Added RFC2231 support
Remove self when selecting "Reply All"
Progress should show totals when multiple accounts have same status
Toggling between list, message and split view in mailer. Double-click e-mail will open the mail in new window
If IMAP server does not give an AUTH capability, try all supported ones
Allow composing an e-mail to multiple receivers by selecting "Compose" on a folder in the contact list
Don't fetch/send messages when in offline mode
Messages are now html, not xml
Let user choose between deleting messages or just remove them from view in the warning/info dialog
Added counter to "Trash"
Support for showing only mail belonging to specified account - dropdown in Hotlist, or available from "Mail > Show account"
Support for account categories. Set category under "General" tab in account properties (Mail > Manage accounts.. dialog). Also available from dropdown in Hotlist
Support for hiding mail in custom views from other views (properties, "Filter" tab)
Disable account dropdown from Mail > Show account
Regexp filter support, see The Regex Coach - interactive regular expressions
Improvements to authentication and auto selection of authentication methods; support for POP3 CAPA
IMAP fixes
Added sorting of the mail access menu
Not show newsgroup messages in Unread by default
Made mail view title into a button (will soon show menu to select other access point); makes it possible to change mail view without hotlist open
Adding dropdown menu for selecting M2 view from the mail window
Easy way to add filter to an existing view (filter on address or subject)
Initial support for mail export to mbox format added
Proper separator in search dropdown box and account selector
Possible to undo/redo (Ctrl z/y) the actions of marking mail as read/unread or delete/undelete of mail.
Save active account information across sessions
Save mail view mode.. split or list
Regexp filter support in M2
Option to hide messages from a certain folder from other folders (marking the messages in that folder as "hidden")
Fixes to only showing mail/news accounts, preparing for hiding content of a view from other views (mail filtering)
Added Account selector in mail panel (can be hidden from Mail > Show accounts)
Added emptying trash as a status-message in M2
Basic support for RFC2449 (POP3 CAPA). Operamail should now work with AUTOSELECT POP authentication.
Open a message box asking about entering online mode if checking mail in offline mode.
Improved support for RFC2646, and added support for Unicode Standard Annex #14, "Line Breaking Properties"

Wand

Various fixes
Auto-login with wand even if there is no username

ボイス

Added "speech" media type with "aural" as alias
Implemented handling of voice-family according to CSS2 aural spec
Implemented parser support for most of CSS3 speech

Kiosk mode

Kiosk mode support has been reintroduced
Visit kiosk information for more information

Command line options and startup

Remote commands will now work properly even when there is no opera instance is running
Fixed a problem when starting opera from a remote machine while another instance was running on the locale machine. In some cases the locale instance would be activated
Fixed a bug that caused remote commands not to locate an instance of opera if this instance was in fullscreen or had been in fullscreen
The language can again be specified with the '-language' argument
Support for an alternative ~/.opera directory. Use the '-personaldir' argument with the path to the alternative directory
Fixed a problem that caused the selected session file (not the automatically saved) not to be read on startup when the start dialog was not shown
Opera will now print a warning message (in the terminal) if it can not find a language file at all (Opera will exit after this)
Enabled support for -debugplugin command line argument and better error handling of plug-ins
More verbose logging in Xft library loaders using '-debugfont' command line argument

External applications

Fixed a regression with generic applications: Append address at end of application name if there are no flags specifiers
Fixed some problems with external mailer. The mailto link passed to the client could be empty depending on the format flag

Improved telnet parsing. It is now possible to parse user and passwords in URLs as well

  %a (address) - Replaced by the address (server)
  %p (port) - Replaced by the port
  %u (user name) - Replaced by the user name
  %w (password) - Replaced by the password
  Example "telnet [-l %u] [%a] [%p]"

Sound

Enabled support for more sound actions (startup and m2)

その他

Updated Help files
Added method to check for available upgrade of Opera
Allow fast forward before page is completely loaded
Fixed redirection of Automatic Proxy Configuration scripts
Support for not displaying page address in window title by using an opera6.ini setting:
```
  [User Prefs]
  Show Address In Caption=0|1 (1 is default)
```