Thursday, March 27th 2008
Opera Gets Full Marks in Acid3
It looks like Opera's development team has done a good job of improving the browser's compatibility, as it has now managed to achieve an impressive score of 100 out of 100 on the Acid3 web standards test. Opera Software's Head of Core Technology, Lars Erik Bolstad, wrote:
Source:
Opera Software
Since the test was officially announced recently, our Core developers have been hard at work fixing bugs and adding the missing standards support. Today we reached a 100% pass rate for the first time! There are some remaining issues yet to be fixed, but we hope to have those sorted out shortly.
14 Comments on Opera Gets Full Marks in Acid3
Opera and Safari are the firsts :)
I know a lot of people like FireFox...and that's cool, as I think iirc, FF did pretty good in the Acid tests also. Good to see more browsers getting better and better, and it's also nice to see a variety of them doing well.
:toast:
acid 1 OK
(its ten years old)
acid 2 Fail, FF and IE still cant draw it (Safari supports it from 2005Q4 Opera 2006Q1)
(3 years old)
acid 3 7x/100
(24 days old :D)
I have a feeling Safari will also be there very soon, after all they are only on the first release of Safari for Windows.
FF3 beta 4 crashes on me a lot, despite it getting a higher score on the Acid3 test than firefox 2.
How often are you gonna run into a website that's coded syntactically correct, but is coded terribly wrong?
Opera's biggest flaw is the fact that it's not open source.
As for security I think that it was and it still is the safest browser.
Also, you have to note that webkit releases nightly builds to the public so you get real-time update on their score while other layout engines are released less frequently so the results for the other engines may be inaccurate since the current internal non-public build of that engine might have a much higher score as seen in this case with Opera. No one can repeat this value unless you work at Opera and use the latest non-public build.