Jazajay
Active Member
Please note: This is an Alpha release, not even a beta, and is for web developers and designers to report bugs. Please, please, please do not use it for general web browsing only test it out on trusted sites ie: yours, as I imagine there will be a few security flaws they have to fix.
Hay guys and gals Opera 10 Alpha is out.
Good news it has support for ~
1. Imported web fonts: So now you can use any web fonts you want, all you have to do is just referance the file on your server. No need to create image files.
To use it, as far as I'm aware of, you need to declare it then use it. So something like this would do it ~
@font-face{font-family:yourFontName;src:url("path/to/font/file.otf")}
body{font-family:yourFontName}
All the text would then be displayed in yourFontName.
2. SVG support: I haven't tested it but an SVG, or Scalable Vector Graphic, will do just as it says on the tin it will scale appropriately.
So for example in a normal pixelized image, be it png, jpg or gif, of say 100 by 100 pixels and you give it a height of say 200 by 200 pixels, and you are not using a server side image libary to re-scale, it would become all distored, however with an SVG img the image would double in size and still maintain it's sharpe looking image with no distortion.
As far as I know Firefox3 and Safari 3 both allow you to use SVG images, as far as I know that is cant say I have tested it in them.
3. And opacity through, get this, both RGBA and HSLA.
RGBA if you do not know stands for Red Green Blue and Alpha.
What this does is allows you to add an alpha channel to your colouring so you can now set the transparancy of the colour/background-colour via Opera's Pesto rendering engine, instead of having to create an image to do it.
HSLA, now I'm a bit scetchy on this TBH so if I'm wrong and some one would like to correct me please do, but to my knowledge stands for Hue, Saturation, Lightness, and I assuming, Alpha values. I could be wrong on that.
Any way it gives you a better way of displaying colours on your web pages than the hexidecimal way IE: color:#FFF ~ white.
Now I'm pretty sure that this has been around since Opera 9, but the RGBA is new.
The good news is that Firefox3, Safari3 and now Opera10 also all support both of them so IE can go backwards compatable and you can get the same effect in those 3 without having to create images.
It has also passed the Acid 3 test with a perfect 100/100 score, but I'm again, pretty sure so did 9, so it is at the moment by far the most W3C standardized broswer.
Any way check it out for yourself if you want to ~ Opera Web Browser | Faster & safer | Download the new Internet browsers free
However again please be aware it is not for general use, as of yet, so please don't start using it as your main browser.
Jaz
Hay guys and gals Opera 10 Alpha is out.
Good news it has support for ~
1. Imported web fonts: So now you can use any web fonts you want, all you have to do is just referance the file on your server. No need to create image files.
To use it, as far as I'm aware of, you need to declare it then use it. So something like this would do it ~
@font-face{font-family:yourFontName;src:url("path/to/font/file.otf")}
body{font-family:yourFontName}
All the text would then be displayed in yourFontName.
2. SVG support: I haven't tested it but an SVG, or Scalable Vector Graphic, will do just as it says on the tin it will scale appropriately.
So for example in a normal pixelized image, be it png, jpg or gif, of say 100 by 100 pixels and you give it a height of say 200 by 200 pixels, and you are not using a server side image libary to re-scale, it would become all distored, however with an SVG img the image would double in size and still maintain it's sharpe looking image with no distortion.
As far as I know Firefox3 and Safari 3 both allow you to use SVG images, as far as I know that is cant say I have tested it in them.
3. And opacity through, get this, both RGBA and HSLA.
RGBA if you do not know stands for Red Green Blue and Alpha.
What this does is allows you to add an alpha channel to your colouring so you can now set the transparancy of the colour/background-colour via Opera's Pesto rendering engine, instead of having to create an image to do it.
HSLA, now I'm a bit scetchy on this TBH so if I'm wrong and some one would like to correct me please do, but to my knowledge stands for Hue, Saturation, Lightness, and I assuming, Alpha values. I could be wrong on that.
Any way it gives you a better way of displaying colours on your web pages than the hexidecimal way IE: color:#FFF ~ white.
Now I'm pretty sure that this has been around since Opera 9, but the RGBA is new.
The good news is that Firefox3, Safari3 and now Opera10 also all support both of them so IE can go backwards compatable and you can get the same effect in those 3 without having to create images.
It has also passed the Acid 3 test with a perfect 100/100 score, but I'm again, pretty sure so did 9, so it is at the moment by far the most W3C standardized broswer.
Any way check it out for yourself if you want to ~ Opera Web Browser | Faster & safer | Download the new Internet browsers free
However again please be aware it is not for general use, as of yet, so please don't start using it as your main browser.
Jaz