Opera 7.6 Preview

[Scott MacVicar]

Well one of the latest changed to Opera is the new cool Voice function, by holding down the scroll lock key and saying some phrases into the microphone it can do some cool stuff.

Navigation and screen reading

It also fixes 1 bug that affected vBulletin. The Menu arrows appeared under the text.

http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/o760tp1v_7141.exe

[MGM]

Never been a fan of Opera, but that voice activation feature sure does sound tempting

MGM out

[Streicher]

Voice is cool, sit back and Opera reads the forum post for you.
Also nice is the MSR (Medium Screen Rendering). It fitts the website automatically to your screen size. No horizontal scrolling I like Opera and used it since version 3.6

[MrNase]

Does that work with that preview version?! I have installed the version 7.54 and that doesn't seem to have voice enabled

[Scott MacVicar]

need 7.6 since its just preview from the link above

You hold scroll lock and say "speak" and it does it

[Daniel P]

Opera's been using SSR (Small Screen Rendering) for the mobile version of the browser. If I find some time for it, I'll try 7.6.

[Floris]

Since Opera took the community feedback serious and figured out that a browser isn't only cool because of a nice theme, it has learned a lot from version 5 on, from version 7 on it has improved once more, especially with the recent cooperation (?) with Mozilla. Version 7.5 is great to use, especially for testing and that is when I got myself a nice full license. (They finally took PayPal payments!) The preview of 7.6 runs aside 7.54 and works great. vBulletin pages look so much alike now.

Recently I created a web site for a friend of mine and it shows the same (99%) in all recent browsers, that doesn't happen a lot (little note: design screws up on Gecko browsers if certain extentions are installed) I am glad Netscape 7.2 and Opera 7.5 are finally catching up, they are nearly sharing third place with Internet Explorer (which went down from 2 to 3).

[cirisme]

Nice!

[Scott MacVicar]

there are 2 bugs that still affect vBulletin.

title isn't inherited to links so the thread preview doesn't work
Alignment of legend in fieldset isn't inherited.

[Hades-1]

the only problem is vbulletin look real buggy in opera

it sux

i switched to from firefox to opera and i might switch back now

[Scott MacVicar]

can you define buggy?

I only know of two alignment issues and these are issues with Opera and have been reported as bugs. http://public.scott.dev.vbulletin.com/opera/

Just a note to say that I tested the bugs again with the latest build of 7.60 and they still exist.

[Zachery]

Compiled Opera on Gentoo lsat night, used it abit today, dont like the ads' seems overly gui, Ill stick with FF on linux