Opera turns 9.51

And they still haven't scrapped the theme. Why do browser developers not realize how crappy their default themes are? Every single browser has this issue except for Safari on OS X and IE7 on Vista when it isn't full screen. Every other version and browser, for the most part, looks like crap. =\

When is real-time spell checking making its debut in Opera? In my humble opinion, this is the single biggest thing missing from Opera.
With web based email and google docs making headlines, a decent spell checker is a necessity!

@ Josh - Its a much better default than there last one while it isn't my favourite it is actually not painful like the last one, and alot more people actually like this one.

Maybe they don't get a great set of skins because when they did almost nobody made skins for the alternate browsers.

@Jon- they haven't announced any intention to do it. That feature is one of the cases where they took Opera by surprise. While it was available for Firefox, most people didn't know it where the use of it was coded right into Opera and they told you how to set it up easily.

Inline Spellchecking is not an easy thing to do and you have to integrate the browser to it and it into the browser.

Personally I hope they do it soon, if not improve on it.

Brad: this is an *important* change for lots of Opera users:
TinyMCE 2.1.x editor now works properly.

Previously we couldn't post on things like wordpress, joomla or forums without switching to a basic editor.

Its a great browser. I have been a fan of Opera for a few years now and I cannot imagine using anything else even if it fries eggs for me.