Changelog
Opera 7.0 beta 1 for Windows has the following changelog:
Opera's new rendering engine (also known as "Presto")
Support for page/document reflow
Support for DOM (Document Object Model) level 2
Support for dynamic HTML
Extended CSS2 support, including e.g. styling of form elements
100% ECMAScript support
Improved HTML 4.01 support
Complete WML 1.3 and 2.0 support
See the Opera 7 specifications for more details.
M2, Opera's new e-mail and news client
Automatically generated access points, a revolutionary method of viewing and organizing e-mail
Support for SMTP authentication
Support for news servers with password authentication
Integrated spam filter
E-mail import from Eudora and Outlook Express
Account wizard
Possible to label messages, which makes messages easily accessible
Support for POP3, IMAP, and ESMTP
Support for threaded display of mailing lists
Quick reply can send a reply without opening a compose window
For more information about M2, please refer to the M2 tutorial.
User interface features
New MDI/SDI combination gives users the best of two worlds by allowing surfing in both MDI or SDI, with tabs (or even a combination) without restarting Opera
Extended and vastly improved drag-and-drop support
Rearrange or move toolbar items using drag-and-drop customization
Move bookmarks, tabs, and MDI pages between SDI windows
Open or save any page link, or make it a desktop shortcut
Rearrange the address, search, and zoom fields
Menu items can be moved, added, or removed by editing "menu.ini"
Extended support for skinning, where skins are in zip files
Color schemes can be selected from the view menu, and new schemes can be added by editing the "menu.ini" file
Page bar replaces MDI window bar
User mode address-bar icon has drop-down menu
New 3D buttons
Enhanced alphablended effects
Hotlist features
New floatable download and transfer manager, with drag-and-drop support
Bookmarks can be shown as panels
History is implemented as a panel
All MDI pages and SDI windows can be managed from the Windows panel
E-mail manager
Hotlist can float or dock either left or right
Single-click opening of bookmarks can be enabled in the "opera6.ini" file by changing the "Hotlist Single Click=0" setting in the "[HotListWindow]" section
More features
Installer supports both multiple user accounts (profile strategy) and single-user installation, i.e. Opera can install with separate settings for each user on Windows NT/2000/XP
Press Shift+F11 to enable small-screen mode, which emulates a hand-held (small-screen) device running Opera
Support for multiple user style sheets, including 100% CSS-made text browser, that can be applied to any Web page
New JavaScript console can be opened from "Window > Special > JavaScript console"
Opera's new session manager lets you choose between (multiple) saved sessions from the start-up dialog
Opera's FTP client supports the EPLF directory format as well as resume download "guessing"
Accessibility
Support for alternate style sheets
Built-in accessibility user style sheet
Support for access keys on Web pages
New navigation bar supports page/document navigation defined using link tags
Keyboard shortcuts for all actions can be customized (added, removed, or modified) in "input.ini", and Opera even supports shortcut sequences
Dynamic on-the-fly generation of access keys in menus
Documentation
Help files are not included in the beta version
Information about Opera 7 beta is available on Opera.com
Text files are updated
Miscellaneous
Global setting-file location changed from Windows directory to opera.exe directory -- used to include new settings added by the installer
Support for accepting requested pop-ups only
Support for favicon and icon files
Improved "Send link in e-mail", which supports the RFC1738 format
Updated "Identify as MSIE" version number from 5.5 to 6.0, and added keyboard shortcuts
Status bar is off by default, and tooltip for link addresses is on by default
Opera 7 beta cannot be installed over a previous version of Opera
