Comments on: Latest weekly build of the Opera browser passes Acid2 test

By: Rade

Rade — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:42:00 +0000

Firefox (on a development branch) passing the Acid2 test! Screenshot

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:56:00 +0000

Prince passes Acid2 as well.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:34:00 +0000

Only Safari and Opera pass Acid2. iCab and Konqueror show scrollbars, right? Then they fail.

And scrolling is not part of Acid2, so that it breaks when you do is expected.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:57:00 +0000

Asa’s actually a woman.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:56:00 +0000

Yeah. Until mr. Dotzler comes along and posts another one of those famous posts of his, like “Opera falls into line again” or “Acid2 is useless, Opera should’ve spent time doing this or that” and “We are the leaders”.

By: Kelson

Kelson — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:35:00 +0000

Who’s “complaining” about Gecko? 1.9 is a lot further than 1.8, but it’s not done yet.

Or is it impolite to check in on other browsers’ progress?

On the issue of whether Acid2 is important because it checks things that “no webmaster cares about” — that’s a chicken-and-egg problem. Acid2 is about filling in the corners. Once those corners are filled, webmasters will have more tools to use. It’s not a compliance test by any stretch of the imagination — there are still plenty of areas in the middle with spotty cross-browser support (even ignoring IE). But anything that raises the bar on what capabilities the major browsers have in common is going to improve matters.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:51:00 +0000

IE is not standards-compiliant = “IE sux, MS sux, [other browser here] rulez!”

Opera is standards-compiliant = “it doesn’t matter, webmasters don’t care, and I know that buggy page that doesn’t work”

Pathetic.

By: Ben Buchanan

Ben Buchanan — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 01:31:00 +0000

Obviously this won’t “count” until it’s officially released; but it’s still awesome news
I guess this would make Opera the first cross-platform browser to pass Acid2? Certainly good news for CSS prototyping.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:45:00 +0000

@ arkavat

i read that the acid test page ISN’T SUPPOSED to be scrolled - if it is, it’ll always result in strange things on the screen. you shouldn’t scroll that page - when you do scroll and it breaks, it doesn’t mean the browser’s rendering is broken.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:21:00 +0000

Aah.

This a dev. version.
Before complaining about Gecko take it the test with 1.6 (which is hardly stable). 1.6 is a pre pre alpha. And If IE7 passed it, it would be breaking 90 % of webpages.

I’m sure Firefox will be able to do the same.

And since Acid2 use stuff no webmaster cares about, is it really that important

By: arkavat

arkavat — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:58:00 +0000

I doubt if opera can claim to have passed the acid 2 test.. as of yet.
just scroll the page and u’ll see that the rendering fails.
but still its way better than gecko…

By: Milki

Milki — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 14:36:00 +0000

Kelson, you claim that Gecko isn’t even close to passing the Acid2 test, look at the 1.6 builds, as buggy as they might be they have come a long way.

I’m a Firefox user.

Anyway congratulations to Opera for achieving this feat. It has come along way from Opera 7.54 and Opera 8

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 08:42:00 +0000

Screenshots always must be in PNG, not JPEG. PNG size is smaller and no visual artifacts there.

By: Stephen Clay

Stephen Clay — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:31:00 +0000

Awesome. Let’s just hope they don’t have to roll back any of those fixes to iron out any remaining showstopper bugs. Acid2 is exciting, but I’d much rather 9.0 just work for people. eg. more DOM2 Style support, no more occasional GDI flakiness…

By: kL

kL — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 21:11:00 +0000

Great! So that’s two left: Explorer and Gecko.
Mozilla plans Acid2 fixes for refactored Gecko 1.9, which will be released in Firefox 3 somewhere around Q1 2007.