Oslo, Norway — (press release excerpt) — Opera Software announced the release of the final desktop version of Opera 5.2 for QNX, making the QNX version available to the general public for the first time. Opera 5.2 for QNX is the first Opera version to support Unicode, enabling the display of non-Latin characters. With Unicode, Opera can give World-Wide Web users the best Internet experience in their own language. Opera Software will release Unicode versions of its browser on all supported platforms in the near future.

In the latest release, the Voyager Web client, originally developed as the Web browser for the QNX operating system, is utilized as the user interface to the Opera Web server. With Opera on the server side, QNX can utilize Opera's popular features to give users a faster and more flexible Internet experience.

Opera 5.2 for QNX supports the following technologies:

• Unicode support
  
• Works with Java (OTI/J9) and popular plug-ins such as Flash, pdf plug-in, media plug-ins/players, RealPlayer. (These engines are delivered by QSSL as a part of their distribution and thus are not included in Opera)
  
• Will display HTML content in your own mail client
  
• Renders HTML 1, 2.0, 3.2 and 4 pages
  
• Renders XHTML 1 Pages
  
• XML 1.0 with CSS stylesheet
  
• WAP pages (WML)
  
• Full CSS 1 and partial CSS 2 support

The Voyager Web client is utilized as the user interface to the Opera Web server. The PtWebClient widget provides a user-defined area within the Voyager application for the Opera server to format and display Web pages. No JVM is included. Only plugins (pdf, wav, mpg) in the EMBED tag are run. The helper application API is not implemented as of today.

Opera 5.2 for QNX can be downloaded from www.opera.com/qnx.

 
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