Opera 7 Released in Beta - 11/13/2002 10:20 PM
Snagged from the zeldman headlines 
"A public beta of Opera 7 for Windows has left the building and is said to be DOM-compliant, though Opera’s News page doesn’t mention this long-desired improvement. To compete with MSIE and Netscape, Opera not only needs to be faster and lighter. It must also support the same technologies its competitors do—and DOM support is where Opera has traditionally stalled. Early field reports indicate Opera 7 has broken the DOM logjam and enhanced CSS performance. Is this the version of Opera its users (and web developers) have been waiting for?"
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"A public beta of Opera 7 for Windows has left the building and is said to be DOM-compliant, though Opera’s News page doesn’t mention this long-desired improvement. To compete with MSIE and Netscape, Opera not only needs to be faster and lighter. It must also support the same technologies its competitors do—and DOM support is where Opera has traditionally stalled. Early field reports indicate Opera 7 has broken the DOM logjam and enhanced CSS performance. Is this the version of Opera its users (and web developers) have been waiting for?"
Get it while it's hot