{"id":399,"date":"2002-11-13T22:45:26","date_gmt":"2002-11-13T22:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-399.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"opera-7-its-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/11\/13\/opera-7-its-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera 7:  it&#8217;s here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/pressreleases\/en\/2002\/11\/13\/\">The Opera 7 beta has arrived.<\/a>  And it&#8217;s <em>glorious<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only just downloaded it, but it&#8217;s already clear to me that this is a fantastic step forward for the Opera browser.  Check this out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can save and re-open sessions (sets of open windows), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/archives\/2002\/08\/27\/new_opera_features_i_would_like\/\">just as I had been hoping<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Multiple user accounts are supported.  (Older versions of Opera could be tweaked to allow different users to have their own preferences\/settings\/favourites, but it was a bit of a hack.)<\/li>\n<li>&lt;link&gt; tag site navigation is supported by means of a slick extra toolbar.  Not many sites use these &lt;link&gt; tags yet, but Mozilla and Opera both support them, and I&#8217;m pretty sure they&#8217;ll be in Internet Explorer 7, too.  It&#8217;s a great usability and accessibility feature.  Within 2-3 years, I reckon that &lt;link&gt; tag site navigation will be ubiquitous across the web.  (Note to self:  must implement this on Sunpig now!)<\/li>\n<li>New mail client program, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/support\/helpfiles\/m2tutorial.html\">&#8220;M2&#8221;<\/a>.  I haven&#8217;t played with this yet, but it looks intriguing.  It tries to go beyond a standard email program, and allow you to treat your mail as a freeform database kind of thing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, the browser has been given a fresh new look, with rounded tabs and sexy transition effects on the menu buttons.  All in all, it just looks utterly fabulous.  I&#8217;ll try and do a more extensive review once I&#8217;ve had a chance to work with it some more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/pressreleases\/en\/2002\/11\/13\/\">The Opera 7 beta has arrived.<\/a>  And it&#8217;s <em>glorious<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}