Opera 10.50 New Released !!

Opera started in 1994 as a research project inside Norway’s largest telecom company, Telenor. Within a year, it branched out into an independent development company named Opera Software ASA.

Today, Opera Software develops the Opera Web browser, a high-quality, multi-platform product for a wide range of platforms, operating systems and embedded Internet products – including Mac, PC and Linux computers, mobile phones and PDAs, game consoles, and other devices like the Nintendo Wii, DS, Sony Mylo, and more.

Opera’s vision is to deliver the best Internet experience on any device. Opera’s key business objective is to earn global leadership in the market for PC/desktops and embedded products. Opera’s main business strategy is to provide a browser that operates across devices, platforms and operating systems, and can deliver a faster, more stable and flexible Internet experience than its competitors.

And at March 2010 Opera released a new version that Opera 10.50.
Over the last couple of weeks, Opera gradually lifted the veil on new features and standards support, but here are a couple of highlights:

* Super-fast JavaScript with Carakan.
* Our Vega graphics engine, which adds support for CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders, Transitions and 2D Transforms and much more.

* Web Storage: Shwetank's article on Local and Session storage was just published today. Web SQL is supported as well — we have an article in the pipeline.
* Standalone Opera Widgets: widgets can now be run as standalone applications with or without native chrome, which means you can effectively build cross-platform apps using Web Standards. If you want to play around with this, have a look at our newly released eBook Reader, a Unite Media Player, or Vadim's SVG-Edit app. For more info, check out Daniel's recent Widgets post.
* An "Inspect Element" menu option that allows you to immediately analyze any element on a page. David has posted an overview of all changes in our debugging tools on the Opera Dragonfly blog.
* A revamped menu structure: especially note the Developer Tools menu (under Opera → Page), which includes Opera Dragonfly, Source, Page Info and more.
* Windows 7 tricks: Aero Peek, Jump List support and Aero Glass effects.
* And last but not least, the @font-face issues we've had in the past are now resolved

For those interested, there is a extensive changelog available in the Documentation section on the (renewed) Opera site.

If you haven't done so, grab Opera 10.50 from that site, and let us know what you think!