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200922 Dec
Opera has today issued a pre-alpha release of Opera 10.5 offering increased support for CSS3 and HTML5 as well as vastly increased JavaScript performance and improvements to the browser’s user interface.
Based on Opera’s Presto 2.5 rendering engine, Opera 10.5 adds CSS3 Transitions and 2D Transforms to the long list of CSS3 properties already supported by the browser as well as increased support for CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders. As CSS3 Transisitions and 2D Transforms are still at the working draft stage of development at present you’ll need to use the ‘-o-‘ prefix in your style sheets for the time being, you can read more on Opera’s support for Transitions and Transforms at the following link.Opera 10.5 also offers increased support for CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders which become a Candidate Recommendation earlier this month. Opera is the first browser to offer support for Backgrounds and Borders without the need for a vendor prefix, with Firefox and Safari still requiring ‘-moz’ and ‘-webkit’ accordingly. You can read more on support for CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders on the Opera website. Presto 2.5 also brings increased support for HTML5 including features such as persistent storage.
Aside from increased support for CSS3, Opera 10.5 also offers vastly increased JavaScript performance thanks to Opera’s new JavaScript engine, Carakan. Accoring to Opera’s blog, Opera 10.5 performs 7x faster than Opera 10.1 in SunSpider. The browser also offers increased graphics performance, thanks to Opera’s new Vega graphics library, and a number of improvements to the browser’s user interface.
To try it out, you can download the latest Labs build for Windows or Mac OS X but bear in mind that Opera describes this as an ‘unstable development build’ and has many known issues, you can read more on the Opera website.
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Any idea when we can stop using the -moz and -webkit prefixes in Firefox, Safari and Chrome?
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Hopefully soon now that Backgrounds and Borders has reached candidate recommendation.
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When I “check for updates” in Opera it updates to Version 10.10 which I found interesting. Any news on this version?
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@Henry: I believe the 10.10 update was a minor update that added a feature called Opera Unite which is targeted at end users (rather than developers).
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Boris says:Comment » December 23rd, 2009 at 10:14 am
a bit of topic but: does anybody get where Opera is going with this Unite? I love the browser but really don’t get why they are walking the “make every pc a server with your browser” road now
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[…] Opera adds support for CSS3 Transitions and 2D Transforms […]
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YangombiUmpakati says:Comment » December 23rd, 2009 at 7:45 pm
this is awesome.. 10.5 completely wins, its sooo incredibly fast
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I am very waiting for a moment, when the Opera 10.5 will be less buggy, and I would use it as a main browser. Opera is just a super browser. I’m loving it still more now.
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Alex says:Comment » December 27th, 2009 at 9:49 am
So now we have Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera supporting Transitions and Transforms, should be a pretty smooth path to becoming a recommendation now.
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This is great news. These standards can be used to some amazing effect and this brings us one step closer to getting good coverage. Good on you Opera!
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Im using transforms on my website, but they do not show in Opera. Any ideas?
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@CupidsToejam – You need to make sure you are using the -o- prefix, for example -o-tranform-origin in your stylesheet, also bear in mind that only Opera 10.5 + will support these properties, the current Opera release version 10.10 does not yet offer support for 2D Transforms. Hope this helps.
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@Chris – Ah, I’m not using the -o- prefix to target Opera. Strange to me how the 10.5 release supports transform, but the 10.10 doesnt. Thanks Chris!
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[…] its coverage of Opera’s added support for CSS3 Transitions and 2D Transforms in the pre-alpha …, CSS3 . Info mentions that “Opera is the first browser to offer support for Backgrounds and […]
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Opera 10.5 soporta CSS3 Transitions y 2D Transforms | CSSBlog ES says:Comment » January 1st, 2010 at 11:48 pm
[…] 22 de Diciembre Opera lanzó una versión pre-alpha de Opera 10.5, ofreciendo un soporte incrementado de CSS3 y […]
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To all of those wondering about Opera 10.10 vs 10.5:
Opera doesn’t use the *nix numbering scheme. For all Opera versions is: 10.1 == 10.10 and 10.5 == 10.50. Therefor you should always use the full XX.YY version name. -
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seb says:Comment » March 5th, 2010 at 4:41 pm
Never test opera,it's a good news for acting now !
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the world of css and is moving so sloooooooooooow!
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