Opera Kestrel beta 2 is now available

By Chris Mills

This week we released an exciting new beta release of Kestrel, the new Opera desktop browser — beta 2, to be exact. It's got some exciting new additions, such as support for full CSS3 selectors and HSL, support for MathML, further speed optimizations, support for HTML5's getElementsByClassName, and improved synchronization of bookmarks, Speed Dial sites, and other settings through Opera Link.

You can download the beta and start playing around with it right away, and find more out about its features at the Opera desktop product page .

Chris Mills is a web technologist, open standards evangelist and education agitator, currently working at Opera Software in the developer relations team. He spends most of his time writing articles about web standards for dev.opera.com and other publications (such as .net mag and A List Apart), giving talks at universities and industry conferences, and lobbying universities to improve their web education courses. He believes that education is the answer to everything, but in particular he is passionate about using education to improve the overall content quality, accessibility, usability and future-viability of the Web.

He is the creator of the Opera Web standards curriculum, contributor to the WaSP InterACT project, and coauthor of InterACT with web standards: A Holistic Approach to Web Design. In August 2011, he also accepted the position of co-chair of the newly-formed Web Education Community Group.

Outside work he is a heavy metal drummer, proud father of three and lover of good beer.


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