Opera 8 Beta 3

[az]

Opera 8 Beta 3 is out, we're approaching the final.

Before you download, a word of advice from Junyor, QA department: "FYI, this release does NOT have the new IMAP back-end. If you have used Opera 8.0 Preview 5 with IMAP accounts, do not install this release over that installation. It'll mess up your mail accounts. Do a clean install instead."

No changelog yet, and the download is, as I understandit a release candidate for Beta 3. Beta 3 will be officially released tomorrow if no problems with the rc are found. A few bugs have apparently been fixed and the preferences dialog has changed quite a bit.

download for windows: ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/win/800b3/en/

AZ

[RhinoZ]

OOOOOO!!
We're getting closer and closer and closer.....

[dbdg]

Typical

I downloaded beta 2 yesterday.

[PAugustin]

Thanks for the news

[az]

It's now released officially.

Changelog: http://www.opera.com/windows/changelogs/800b3/

AZ

[Sasq]

and when it goes gold, and when opera pays me for my time to retool murc to be non opera descriminatory - depending of course which version of opera you are using - let me know.

[az]

You can be sure I will post here when the final goes gold (and Paddy will try to beat me to it ). There is a forum on my.opera.com/forums/ I think it's the web design forum, or maybe open the web, that helps with fixing incompatible sites (but I know you don't have time for that, which really is OK - I don't find anything wrong with MURC in Opera).

BTW, it's always only necessary to write for the latest Opera version, IMHO, since Opera users are generally quite quick in picking up new major versions (this will become even better with v8's automatic version checking).

AZ

[Sasq]

and all users of Opera get free upgrades?
even from ver 5.x?
If the answer is no, then I need version checks.

I only charge $120 an hour, and yes, I have looked at the opera site, the dev 'section' is useless.

[az]

Opera 7 users get free upgrades to v8. Everybody can use the free ad-sponsored version (and upon release, mac and unix users, too, will get v8, so it's not a platform question, too).

Those that still use 5.x - I'd treat them the same as those that still use Netscape 4.7 - there really is no reason to still be using that.

AZ

[VJ]

Those that still use 5.x - I'd treat them the same as those that still use Netscape 4.7 - there really is no reason to still be using that.

Actually, the LDAP query system in Netscape 4.7 is much better than that in later versions: it allows you to query on more data, and outputs much more data.



Jörg

[Sasq]

so I need to do version checks then.
I WILL NOT BREAK COMPATABILITY FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE PAID FOR THEIR BROWSER.
like I said, $120 an hour.

[az]

Well, now that the site is compatible with Opera 5, adding a version check would take... a minute? (of course, this would just be the version check, not creating an Opera 8 version...)

BTW sasq, I'm not mad at you, but I think the vB devs could have tried to get their HTML compatible - how old is vb3? I bet Opera 7 was out then.

AZ

[Nowhere]

btw az, regarding using ad-sponsored Opera vs. unlocked; here's my situation:
I have rights to free unlocked Opera (educational license), however the admin of my department worships MS...so obviously he can't be bothered with aplying for free educational license. Do you think using keygen in my case is moral?

[Sasq]

actually, there are checks for ver 7, on some instances for the wysiwyg editor, it checks if the user is using ver7 of opera or ver 4.0 of IE...

they did do their homework. there are just some things that the older engines of opera can not do, go to www.bindows.net with a non beta version, change your User Agent and see for yourself.

[az]

will in an hour. time to feed the kid

AZ