tedster - 8:08 am on May 28, 2004 (gmt 0)

OK - I'm about a week into the new Opera 7.5 and wow, I am impressed. They've fixed a bunch of irritating bugs and so on, but most of all, I really like the new page rendering. It's much less "jerky" than 7.23 was, and extreeeeemely fast.

And one of the bug fixes handled a rendering issue on one of my main client sites, so that's made my life a lot easier as well. This bug was an odd one. The site is the kind of layout that triggers the IE peek-a-boo bug. After I got that handled, opera released version 7.23 and the divs were "sometimes" rendered as overlapping instead of floated. The funky thing was that a reload (or sometimes several reloads) would fix the band rendering.

A problem on one version of a minority (albeit great) browser and it's fixed. Thanks Opera.

Also, with the recent publicity around the potential for a telnet exploit [webmasterworld.com] on previous versions, it's nice to have this baby all plugged in.