Recently, Apple made a lot of misleading and false accusations with the release of Safari 4 beta and this created controversy in forums, blogs and magazines (translated version).
Most of the Opera users know that Opera has a long (and glorious) history of browser innovation. However, the “outside world” needs to know – especially those who like to claim that they were first with something.
Therefore, Opera Software Documentation team has created a very comprehensive and easy-to-use history of Opera’s desktop versions with release dates, release types, rendering engines, JavaScript engines, and features in major releases.
See it here.
[via Espen André Øverdahl]
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> misleading and false accusations
accusations is a terrible word to include there. apple didn’t accuse anyone for anything.. they simply credited themselves for innovations.
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Slight aside. I recieved this mail on my Operamail account today:
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That mail must be scam, don’t reply such spam mails.
When you don’t think so, Check the official news at http://www.operamail.com/
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such spam mailssuch phishing mailsusing
@Steve Barker, please don’t post off-topic comments and email address in comment.
If you receive mail asking for password it is scam.
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Aq salut dengan opera 4.2, karena mudah digunakan dan kinerja nya baik and cepat
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> apple didn’t accuse anyone for anything.. they simply credited themselves for innovations.
And this is nothing new. I remember when they released the first Mac OS X version that featured virtual desktops …even then they were pretending to have invented this feature, although window managers with virtual desktops had been around for ages on X-window based Unix-systems and probably several other OS’es that I’ve just not heard of.
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If I search (doing CTRL+F) the word “opera” on that page on apple.com I don’t get any matches. Where are the accusations?
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If i search (doing CTRL+F) the word “noob” on this page i find name “Computer Portatili”
2Computer Portatili: u know what the author meant by “misleading and false accusations” and if u dont, then dont make dumb comments to show every 1 how stupid you are.
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I believe the author (Tamil) hails from the faraway country of Heaven. I’ve never been to Heaven myself, so I’m not sure what their native language is there, but it’s entirely possible it may not be English (it could in fact be Tamil for all I know) in which case one can forgive such slight mix-ups such as accusation/claim/propaganda.
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LOL Max1c
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wondering, why they don’t tell a codename of each version ?
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@MrWhisper, uh, maybe because not all version had codenames? Geez.
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Great idea to get this version info up and searchable, Tamil.
@Max1c: LOL.
@xErath: You’re being a little naive…what did you think of them leaving off Opera from their benchmarks and claiming that they have the only browser that passes Acid3?
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@Kamalesh
They do have the only browser that passes Acid3 as far as I’m aware.
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@lucideer: I hope you’re kidding, but just in case you’re not, try going here with your browser now and tell us what you see.
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Whoops, html didn’t work.
Here: http://acid3.acidtests.org/
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@Kamalesh
100/100 is not a pass. After the test has run, click on the A in Acid to see the test results.
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I think the new version of the Opera Software is very nice.Have many changes in this version.
Opera Software Documentation team has created a latest changed in the soft ware who is very impressive.
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I like Opera, I love Opera everyday & Forever.
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@lucideer
You seem like a nice person, so not sure what you’re getting at. Yes, with Mac build 6343 here, I get 100/100 and clicking on “A” in Acid says it took 12 passes. Did you try this in Safari4?
The point of all this is Apple is saying Safari4 is the ONLY browser to pass Acid3, and their test result is identical to Opera 10, but takes EIGHTEEN passes and at less than 30fps…so don’t argue for the sake of arguing, please.
(What would Orwell say about 100/100 is “not passing”…??)
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@kamalesh
I have not tested Safari myself, nor do I have it installed to do so. I have read that Safari 4 passes Acid3 so I was just going on what I had read. Maybe Safari hasn’t passed the test at all and they are lying outright.
However, what I do know is that Opera has not passed it, nor has any other browser, so I was just commenting on that fact. The criteria for passing is that all tests should take under 33ms on “reference hardware”. Reference hardware is not strictly defined, the only guide given by Ian Hickson is that it should be equivalent to a “top-of-the-line Apple laptop”.
As for me being a nice person, thank you. If you’re maybe questioning the possibility that I could be some Apple fanboy defending Safari here, don’t worry, that quite literally couldn’t be further from the truth.