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Opera Embedding BitTorrent Client

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the p2p-uber-alles dept.

Opera Watch writes "The next version of Opera, 8.02, will have an embedded BitTorrent client. Opera has released today a Technical Preview of this new version on its FTP directory, though they have made no official announcement as of yet."

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  1. Integrated BT is cool... by Per+Wigren · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ..but I rather see that they fix their single-threaded Javascript implementation first. Like adding support for asynchronous callbacks from XMLHttpRequest and not waiting until a previous function has finished befor running the other function started by a different event handler.

    As an example: try adding onmouseover="do_some_stuff(this);" to 10 objects and let the do_some_stuff-function take one second to finish. Then quickly move your mousebutton over the the 10 objects and see Opera execute them in order, taking a total of 10 seconds to finish. All other non-ancient browser runs 10 do_some_stuff() in parallell.

    Oh, and opacity on block-level elements would be nice also :)

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  2. Re:Elsewhere... by chingador · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    no