What’s new in Opera's development snapshots

June 16, 2011 · by Divya Manian

We just released a new development snapshot, and it contains a mind-boggling array of new features and fixes.

I wanted to point out a few updates that would be interesting to web developers that are available in that build. Do note that your Opera Next should already have this update (checking opera:about should give you "Presto/2.8.165 Version/11.50" under Browser Identification). If you were one of the early birds who installed Opera Next on your macs, note that you would have to install it again as the auto-updater on the first release did not work correctly.

Checkbox Indeterminate State

The indeterminate state is used to express an indeterminate state of on an input checkbox. Here is how it would look (and a demo). There is an associated :indeterminate pseudo-class that can be used for styling (you can use it in this manner).
input type=email no longer rejects non-ascii domains

Previously, using an email address like ja@日本.jp would be rejected as an invalid email address as the original version of the spec did not account for non-ascii domains. However, this has since been updated (tracker), and Opera now supports non-ascii domain names in inputs of type email. (demo of non-ascii domain support).
Gradients with more than 32768 stops don't crash anymore

If you need 32,768 color stops in your gradients, clearly you need counseling. But in the interest of protecting the innocent from your follies, Opera no longer crashes when you have that many color stops in your gradients - be it canvas, SVG or CSS.
Better handling of radial gradients

Some instances of canvas radial gradients were not handled correctly. This has now been fixed.
Setting window.location.href to "" will reload page

This seems to be sadly a common pattern among several sites to cause a page reload. Ideally, you should avoid this. But if your site was broken in Opera because of this, it will work now (like Marmolada Restauracja Kraków).
More compliance with the atob and btoa specifications.
A few web font regressions in 11.10 and 11.50 have been fixed.

If you find any bugs with any of these fixes, please file them with the bug wizard!

Readers' comments 13

Left under the original article, as archived.

Martin KadlecThursday, June 16, 2011 4:42:13 PM
I've got problem with the indeterminate property. It looks same as normal checked checkbox

http://files.myopera.com/BS-Harou/files/indeterminate.jpg

(Win XP SP3)
Unregistered userThursday, June 16, 2011 4:48:04 PM
Chris writes: For me the same: the checkbox looks exactly the same as a normal checked checkbox and not like the image.
Divya ManianThursday, June 16, 2011 4:53:16 PM
Are you both on the build I mentioned Presto/2.8.165 Version/11.50? The number 165 is important, as that is the build which has this feature.

Oops, just noticed BS-Harou IS on that build. It certainly seems to be a bug if thats how it looks. I will investigate.

Ha, seems like there is a bug with windows installs. It does not seem to apply. Thanks BS-Harou! I am updating the issue.
Unregistered userThursday, June 16, 2011 5:00:03 PM
leeroy writes: Got the same issue as BS-Harou on Win7 Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; Edition Next; de) Presto/2.8.165 Version/11.50
Martin RauscherThursday, June 16, 2011 5:00:35 PM
I think they forgot to update the skin...
Daniel HendrycksThursday, June 16, 2011 5:33:44 PM
Originally posted by Hades32:

I think they forgot to update the skin...
Yeni SetiawanThursday, June 16, 2011 6:04:20 PM
I'm updating Opera Next to see those stuffs.
Bad internet connection, I have to be patient
QuHnoThursday, June 16, 2011 7:23:30 PM
Originally posted by Hades32:

I think they forgot to update the skin...

I don't know, the skin can show something like indeterminate - it wrongly shows on the toolbars if you pull some settings into it, see screenshot here at the lower half of the screenshot (DSK-339373)
Unregistered userFriday, June 17, 2011 1:30:09 PM
Eddie writes: BS-Harou, that was the best screenshot I've ever seen. Nice job.
Martin KadlecFriday, June 17, 2011 3:29:44 PM
Originally posted by anonymous:

Eddie writes:

BS-Harou, that was the best screenshot I've ever seen. Nice job.

Thx
QuHnoMonday, June 20, 2011 8:39:30 PM
The indeterminate doesn't seem to be resolved in build 1049 (at least not under w7x64)
Martin KadlecTuesday, June 21, 2011 7:37:30 PM
Indeterminate works for me in 1052. Good work and thx!
Unregistered userWednesday, June 29, 2011 5:54:13 PM
Anonym writes: Why don't you support 日本@ja.jp as well? Many first and last names in several countries contain non-ASCII letters.