PCWorld.Com - Opera Software last week released Opera 11.6, an interim build to tide over users while the company continues to work on version 12 and its hardware acceleration.
Opera 11.6 features a new HTML parser — dubbed Ragnarok by Opera — as well as a revamped address bar that brings up likely destinations faster and more accurately when the user starts typing. Ragnarok provides slightly better performance, but is intended to render more websites more accurately, said Jan Standal, Opera’s vice president of desktop software, in an interview Tuesday.
The update also lets users add websites to “Speed Dial,” Opera’s default new tab page that shows thumbnail images of favorite sites with a single click, much like bookmarks were saved in earlier editions.
Opera redesigned the user interface for the built-in email client, added support for several HTML and HTML5 standards, including content schemes and content handlers for the latter, and debuted support for Google’s new JSON geolocation API (application programming interface).
Standal acknowledged that Opera 11.6 was an interim edition that the company released because it had delayed Opera 12. More
