michael_clarkson

Opera Software present new version of Opera browser (6.20) for the UIQ platform. What's new:
* Page is reformatted to fit inside screen width, eliminating the need for horizontal scrolling. Menu/Edit - enable "Fit to page""
* Introducing zooming in SSR mode
* Full screen - to switch between full screen and normal view; click on the browser button, long-click the screen, or pull the jog-dial.
* Long-click functionality
* In full-screen mode, tap and hold on the screen to open a menu
* Tap and hold on an image to save it
* Tap and hold on a bookmark displays the page in a new window
* Tap and hold within a Frame gives the alternatives: "Maximize frame" or "Open frame in new window"
* Tap and hold on a link gives the alternatives: "Open link" or "Open link in new window"
* Fixed problem with scrollbars going under some embedded objects
* Optimized redrawing
* Fix for wml card ontimer problem
* Fixed a font problem when zooming a page
* Various download fixes
* Fixed a bug where target="_blank" opened two new windows
* Fixed positioning problems of the long-click menu on frames pages
* Fixed bug with rapidly flickering gif animations
* Fixed a "power-drain" problem
* Added some missing character tables to fix character encoding problems on many sites (Russian/Greek etc.)
* Added partial double buffering to be used for transparent animated gifs
* Several other bugfixes
The new version is available for download @ Opera.com.

rogp

I love the tabbed browsing feature on Opera. I run it on all my Windows boxes.

Iain Young

Does anyone actually use Opera on the PC. I've given the latest version a go and wasn't impressed. It seemed to do very strange things with a lot of the of websites I tried it on, and when I tried my online banking through it, the browser crashed and dumped me to the desktop!!

jameswrx

iTrader: (4)

installed it on my P800, nothing has changed do I need to change anything on the phone?

rogp

Iain,

If I recall half the probem with sites not displaying properly in Opera is due to the strict adherance of the development team to the W3 recommended standards for HTML.

Hence, not all sites appear as the designer intended.

Rog

Iain Young

I understand that Rog, but I've coded some pages strictly to the standard, (it's part of my job), and they still don't work as expected in opera!! I think it needs a bit more work before becoming genuinely useful...

Iain