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Opera’s progress with the Acid3 test

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 Published March 18th, 2008 12:49 PM EDT By Daniel Goldman

As you can see from the screenshot below of the Acid3 test, we’re working hard on it. Opera now passes 77 out of 100 on the test. I took this screenshot with the latest public build of Opera 9.5, build 9841 (on WinXP).

Congrats though to the Safari WebKit team; they’re up to 93% on the Acid3 test.

It’s great to see the browser vendors in an arms race over this. It sure will help with compatibility and moving the Web forward.

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The Acid3 test on Opera 9.5 build 9841

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  1. 1 Cyro Mar 18th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows Vista

    Nice!

  2. 2 Pallab Mar 18th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    I am keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that Opera would win the race.

  3. 3 GT500 Mar 18th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows Vista

    I noticed that eariler when I downloaded the new build. Those devs are doing some great work.

  4. 4 David Naylor Mar 18th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
    using Mozilla Mozilla 1.9b5pre on Windows Windows XP

    I wish the Firefox team would rise to the challenge too, even if they can only aim for acid 3 compliance in a nightly build at the moment. Their release schedule is sort of out of sync with the releases of the Acid tests… Acid 2 was let loose just as Firefox 2 was about to ship and now Acid 3 is published as Firefox 3 is just about done. :/

  5. 5 Vítor I Mar 18th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Please fix those ridiculous bugs like “some funky parsing problems on Youtube”; “Save As for a web page only lets you save as «HTML file» on Windows”; “The progress bar does not show if it’s set to «Pop-up at the bottom»” .
    After that concentrate on Acid3 test.

  6. 6 Daniel Goldman Mar 18th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Vítor I, we do many things in parallel. Acid3 is not the only thing we’re focused on now.

  7. 7 IceArdor Mar 18th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows Vista

    Mine is displaying 78/100. I probably have some feature disabled, but anyways, Desktop Team is moving at an incredible pace. Along with fixing inline find, they also jumped 11% on the Acid3–and this test was like.. JUST released.

    Opera and Webkit and Mozilla are all going to make the Acid developers worry about getting an Acid4 test out in time. I remember searching the web for Acid3 several months ago, and there were almost no results. Now, Acid3 is all over the web, and Opera is a big chunk of it.

    Open the web? Hell yeah!

  8. 8 theharmonyguy Mar 19th, 2008 at 10:15 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Daniel, is Opera planning to have Acid3 compliance in the final release of Opera 9.5, or is too early to say?

  9. 9 Daniel Goldman Mar 19th, 2008 at 10:25 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Yes, I think it’s a bit too early on that. Acid3 is important to Opera, but I don’t think it will delay anything.

  10. 10 Operauser Mar 19th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.25 on Windows Windows XP

    The acid3 test link crashes my browser on my OS. :(

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