Like the development build of Safari 4, Opera 10 alpha doesn't have many new features yet.
Opera's web evangelist, Bruce Lawson, told ZDNet.com.au's sister site ZDNet UK in October that Opera 10 would be "prettier" than its predecessors.
The alpha is expected to introduce on-the-fly spell-checking for text fields, support for HTML formatting in Opera Mail, and an auto-update feature to force browser updates. It was not clear at the time of writing whether this update is something that users can opt out of.
I think the developers need to learn to spell!
"A new version of Opera is avaiable"
If they can't even get the spelling right, what else has been left out?