Opera 9 Weekly Build 8303

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http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/o90w_8303m.exe

We have a new weekly build for you to play with. We've fixed plenty of bugs on all platforms, and one of the biggest changes this week is a completely new Windows installer.

Our old installer is starting to show it's age, and for some time now we've been working on a new one using the Windows Installer engine. This change has several advantages. Windows Installer is the native install system on the platform, it provides more powerful network installation options, and it allow us to translate the installer to more languages. But it has drawbacks as well. Windows Installer is not pre-installed on older Windows systems, and the package will be a bit larger. The transition has to be made sooner or later, and we think that the advantages now outweigh the disadvantages.

Changelog:

Tabbed browsing preferences have been moved to Preferences - Advanced - Tabs.
Fix for Shift+Click text selection.
Removed support for SGML comments in HTML. Comment parsing is now based on the Web Applications 1.0 draft.
Fix to allow object tags with an empty data attribute to load plug-ins.
Fix for loading PDF documents in a plug-in via the POST method.
Implemented stepUp and stepDown for Web Forms 2.0 date inputs.
Added support for Audio, as described in the Web Applications 1.0 draft.
Images held only in memory using the Image() constructor now report the correct dimensions.
Added support for controlling plug-ins with site specific preferences.
Clicking a label for a checkbox now fires events for the associated input.
Formchange event is now fired when contents of the form are changed.
Several designMode improvements, including handling of queryCommandEnabled and queryCommandState, and converting multiple paragraphs into list items.
Added support for dynamically generated script tags in SVG.
Allowed animating of flood-color in SVG using animateColor.
Fix for mouse events in widgets.
Dragging a scrollbar in a widget no longer drags the widget.
Fixed handling of :hover over block elements.
Improved handling of whitespace around inline elements.
Fixed aligning of fonts on buttons.
Self closing tags no longer break layout.