Opera 9.0 Preview 1 Available
Posted by cwage @ 10/22/2005
Opera has released a preview of Opera 9.0, which can be found here. It comes with some rather astounding improvements:
- support for XSLT, Canvas 2D, and Web Forms 2.0
- rich-text editing on Web pages
- site-specific preferences
- a new IMAP back-end
- access to Opera's preferences via opera:config
Looks like they are making a concerted effort for Acid2 compliance, as well. Pretty impressive. I am about to download it and give it a shot. Some people are already asking: Is Opera 9 what Firefox 2 should be?
UPDATE: Opera 9.0 Preview 1 ACID2 test results below:
Acid2 Reference Rendering:
Opera Rendering:
Not too shabby.
Comments
[...] By far the most
[...] By far the most impressive accomplishment is the improvements in rendering, CSS, and Javascript. As I’ve noted before, the ACID2 test results are amazing, and I have yet to find a site heavily using AJAX that doesn’t work (I am sure there will be some, inevitably, but it’s a good sign that Opera is no longer playing catchup to the AJAX boom.) [...]
Ok. It does work, but a
Ok. It does work, but a little buggy. Ah well.
There are definitely some
There are definitely some bugs.. I have downgraded back to 8.5 until the next preview release..
Oops, hold that, I guess 8.5
Oops, hold that, I guess 8.5 isn't 9.0. Let me download that version ;-)
Too bad gmail doesn't work
Too bad gmail doesn't work at all in it :( I was starting to like it.