Opera Desktop team just released the first alpha of Opera 9.5 (codenamed Kestrel). Kestrel adds a lot on top of what could be found in Merlin (Opera 9):

Generally improved performance
CSS3 Selectors

Support for several CSS2.0/2.1/3 properties improved
Fix for this annoying rounding problem
Futhark, an entirely new ECMAScript engine! (In some cases this means performance regressions compared to […]

In ‘06, I slowed down my writing here for web-graphics for several reasons.
**Browsers**. Much of what I was writing about had to do with CSS techniques that could be employed during a time when modern browsers were less prevalent. Constructing layouts that could match designs, render well in various browsers, and still retain semantic HTML […]

I’m going to go ahead and link a jpg here that shows a concept Arturo has for a redesign of this site. Usually I’d ask his permission before posting something like this, but not this time. Like the current design, I love the simplicity of it, it’s so clean - but without being boring. I […]