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Wii browser passes the Acid2 test

Published December 22nd, 2006 3:25 PM EST By Daniel Goldman

One of my readers, Robin Zalek, emailed me a few screenshots from the Wii Opera browser. Two of them showed how it passes the Acid2 test (See screenshots below).

The Acid2 test has been written to help browser vendors make sure their products correctly support features that are part of web standards.

I’m not sure which version of Opera the Wii runs on; perhaps someone with knowledge on the issue could shed some light on this.

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  1. 1 James Dec 22nd, 2006 at 4:21 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    Opera on the Wii reports itself as: opera/9.00 (nintendo wii; u; ; 1309-9; en)

  2. 2 Croft Dec 22nd, 2006 at 4:30 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    I was just about to say that even though I have no way of checking, as James apparently does, Opera 8 did not handle Acid2 properly but 9 did, so it would stand to reason that Wii has 9 in it. But there you have confirmation.

  3. 3 babox Dec 22nd, 2006 at 4:43 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    From the press release “The Opera browser for Wii is based on the same standards compliant core as Opera 9″

  4. 4 kyleabaker Dec 25th, 2006 at 4:41 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    @Croft, you would be correct in assuming v9 instead of v8, because as far as I know v8 is not really even supported anymore since the official release of v9. Can’t wait to see what this does for the web since some sites will be checking twice to see that their pages work flawlessly with Opera from now on, haha.

  5. 5 dawpa2000 Dec 28th, 2006 at 6:41 am
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows Server 2003

    kyleabaker, I too am hoping for that.

  6. 6 davidicus Dec 28th, 2006 at 10:26 pm
    using Opera Opera 8.51 on Windows Windows XP

    also, Opera.com reported Flash 7 compatibility.

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