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Opera 10 Web Browser now available in alpha

Opera Software lets us have a sneak peek at Opera 10! You can now download an alpha version of Opera 10 at http://www.opera.com/browser/next/. Here’s a quick rundown on what’s new:

• Presto 2.2 Engine
• Performance boost
• 100/100 and pixel-perfect on the Acid3 test
• Auto-update
• Inline spelling checker
• Opera Mail improvements, including rich text composition and delete after X days
  

Here’s some more detail on the improvements and new features:

Opera 10 contains Opera's new rendering engine, Opera Presto 2.2, which will be integrated with all future Opera 10 products. This rendering engine gives us up to 30 percent faster browsing experience (compared to Opera Presto 2.1 from Opera 9.5).

For web developers: support for standards has improved also, resulting in a 100/100 score on the famous Acid3 test. There are also improved tools for web developers: you can use Web Fonts, including SVG font files, making great typography possible for designing web sites. Now it is also easier to make page elements transparent, by using a transparency channel added to RGB and HSL (so: RGBA and HSLA). Finally, Opera Dragonfly has improved website debugging, editing the DOM and inspecting the HTTP Headers.

There are some more improvements for the users too: spellchecker while you’re typing, auto update to the latest versions as they become available, and Opera Mail now supports HTML formatted e-mails.

“My favorite development in this release is the support for new Web technologies, which allows people to explore new ways of using the Internet," says Johan Borg, Vice President of Consumer Engineering, Opera Software. "Our 100/100 Acid3 Test score is only a first indication of the impact these new Web technologies will have. We look forward to your feedback on Opera 10.”

Find out more and download Opera 10 free: http://www.opera.com/browser/next/.

Labels: alpha, browser, download, free, Opera, semantic, standards, SVG

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  Posted by oVan on Monday, December 08, 2008 | PermaLink | 0 comments

CSE HTML Validator 8.04 released

Even though semantic markup is gaining popularity and more developers are aware of the need to create correct code, there are still lots of websites that could use a little validation.
One of the best validators has just released a small update, fixing some bugs and adding Vista compatibility: CSE HTML Validator 8.04

Here's a list of changes since version 8.03:

• Editor
  
  
  
  • Dragging and dropping a Batch Wizard target list file (that has an lst file extension) onto the editor in the professional edition will now ask if you want to open it in the Batch Wizard.
  
  


• Batch Wizard
  
  
  
  • Following links should now work when links contain ";jsessionid=".
  
  


• Improved Syntax Checking
  
  
  
  • Now assume that <%...%>, <?...?> and <!--# ...--> will evaluate to a text string when CSE HTML Validator tries to determine if there is text in elements such as "b". This should eliminate messages like this for source like this <b><% =MS.SomeRoutine %></b>: The "b" element contains no text and may be useless. Consider removing this element or placing text in it so that it contains text.
  
  
  • Recognizes more font family names as valid.
  
  


• Bug Fixes
  
  
  
  • Fixed a bug that calculated an incorrect absolute URI in certain rare situations.
  
  
  • New TreeView component to fix access violations when tool tips were on.
  
  
  • The tidyprofiles.xml file is now properly stored and referenced to in the user's application data folder.
  
  
  • Recognizes the CSS "counter-reset" property.
  
  


• Other
  
  
  
  • Many Microsoft Vista improvements to better support the look and feel of Microsoft Vista.
  
  
  • Improvements when adding file associations.
  
  
  • Paths in the old 8.3 format that are passed as a filename argument to the command line processor are now, in most cases, converted to long filenames before processing.
  
  
  • Miscellaneous user interface improvements and fixes, including new tip messages.
  
  
  • Now creates the registry key that HTML-Kit looks for when it looks for CSE HTML Validator. This should cause the menu option Tools->Check Code Using CSE HTML Validator to appear in HTML-Kit when CSE HTML Validator is installed.
  
  
  • Minor updates to the documentation.
  
  

Labels: code, CSS, html, markup, semantic, validation, validator

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  Posted by oVan on Thursday, May 31, 2007 | PermaLink | 1 comments