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Opera and the Acid3 Test

By Tim AltmanJunyor. Wednesday, March 26, 2008 6:14:32 PM

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We have some excellent news! Lars Erik Bolstad, the Head of Core Technology at Opera Software, sent me the following information to share:


I have a quick update on where we are with Acid3. 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. We will release a technical preview version on labs.opera.com within the next week or so. For now, the screenshot above shows the Acid3 test as rendered in our latest WinGogi Desktop build. WinGogi is the Windows version of our reference builds used for the internal testing of Opera's platform independent Core.

Happy EasterPublic Acid3 build

Comments

Jan StandalThink Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:01:20 PM

Excellent! smile

Ward Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:04:47 PM

Wow!

Benjamin JacobsenEinar1975 Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:06:10 PM

Great work guys! Impressive!

Sergio Uribesuribe Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:07:35 PM

excellent! cheers
which version?

Sokkratez Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:12:45 PM

Brilliant smile

James Cassellelitegeek Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:13:41 PM

congratulations!

FataL Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:15:52 PM

Yay!
My congrats to Core Team! up

purgossu Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:16:11 PM

Congratulations, well done! up

Tim AltmanJunyor Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:16:54 PM

@mgillespie: We'll have more information about the Acid3 test and Kestrel in the next couple of weeks.

RamūnasRamunas Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:17:02 PM

Bigger screenshot: http://timaltman.com/acid3/acid3_full.png

Ice ArdorIceArdor Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:17:51 PM

Dang. That was fast. Congrats.

Johan Borgborg Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:19:25 PM

@Orlando: Now that's what I call a trained eye smile

Petko VasilevAlpha-Toxic Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:21:21 PM

bigeyes OMG! You guys are insane!!! I'm so fucking happy and proud to be using Opera yes
And thinking that I may have influenced even a single IF or CASE in there somewhere through those bug reports and suggestions makes me feel all warm on the inside smile

Keep up the excellent work, you are the greatest!

FataL Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:22:32 PM

Originally posted by Orlando:

Great work!
But I see the ",a" bug are still there.


Originally posted by borg:

@Orlando: Now that's what I call a trained eye smile


bigsmile lol

Alexis DeveriaFyrd Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:23:15 PM

Wow, these have been the most intense Acid-test related hours ever.

Okay, so I'm a geek.

Congratulations!! smile

João Davidpiroxicam Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:23:25 PM

Oh my god.

I knew Opera will be the first browser to achieve 100%.
Keep up the good work and start publishing this news in the net for the rest of the world knows that Opera is the first browser to get 100% in the Acid3 test.

ColKilkenny Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:25:11 PM

Well, that was fast.
Congrats.

FataL Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:26:24 PM

Offtopic: big OPERA DESKTOP TEAM header should be a link to blog. I don't see any link from this page to "parent": http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/

Haavardhaavard Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:31:07 PM

FataL, click the bird to the right smile

tgabill Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:32:13 PM

W('O')w!

Alexis DeveriaFyrd Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:34:28 PM

A quick google for "WinGogi" returns a bunch of usage statistics. Looks like the name's in the user agent string too, then.

Quick, lets see if opera devs were surfing porn! bigsmile

FataL Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:35:52 PM

Originally posted by haavard:

FataL, click the bird to the right smile

It points to About page (http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/about/), not blog home page.

Tim AltmanJunyor Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:42:14 PM

@FataL: Thank you, we'll see what we can do about it.

sentio Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:46:40 PM

Hi folks, my super-ultra-secret-internal-only browser also have Acid3 passed. Here you are the screenshot: http://acid3.acidtests.org/reference.html rolleyes lol

To be serious, the only proof of passing the test suite is *public* released version of browser.

Mathieu 'p01' HENRIp01 Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:47:30 PM

Seriously that's nuts!

Vasil Dinkovsmartmenus Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:48:44 PM

Wow! yes

Alexis DeveriaFyrd Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:49:59 PM

Can you guys make a comment on whether or not the support for hsla,rgba and @font-face will make it to Opera 9.5 when it's released?

ohxten Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:51:35 PM

Wow, good work! Honestly, it seemed as if the WebKit developers would pass it first, because of their oft-updated blog. Congrats for doing it first.

Now, who will make the first stable release?

Cyro Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:51:39 PM

Congrats!
I just hope the great news won't prevent us from getting a new build this week!

Rogue-Shadow Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:52:40 PM

I remember that the last time this subject was tackled, opra only rendered 77/100 and safary 93/100. Any news on how safari's doing, and if opera is the first to get 100%?

Vlad ShumkinSpurlos Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:55:21 PM

Congratulations! Another record for opera dev team!

sentio Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:56:32 PM

Rogue, unlike recently announced "internal" Opera you can check personally how far Safari/Webkit are in Acid3 by downloading public available Webkit nightly from: http://nightly.webkit.org.

FavDjiXas Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:56:54 PM

Congrats

Pierrera-mon Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:57:25 PM

Any news on how safari's doing, and if opera is the first to get 100%?


http://webkit.org/blog/170/webkit-hits-98100-on-acid3/

Congratulations for the great work at Opera !

Kamaleshkamalesh Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:01:32 PM

"Opera leads, the rest will follow..." cool

Tim AltmanJunyor Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:07:36 PM

@Fyrd: Not at this time.

David Håsätherhzr Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:08:07 PM

Woo. Congrats guys.

zoquete Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:08:10 PM

Usually don't do this, but this time: Congratulation, developers! smile

timothytoes Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:08:18 PM

Great. Now can you please stop working on your browser? It's good enough.

If, instead, you could help those poor Microsoft people catch up, all of us multi-browser devs would appreciate it.

AndrewAndrewNi Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:11:19 PM

Well done devs! smile

Gyrobo Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:14:04 PM

Kestrel isn't an owl; it's a leapfrog! smile

PozsonyiMarkCsendesMark Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:15:07 PM

Well done WELL DONE!!
cheers Cheers!! cheers

Hein Torezyph Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:15:27 PM

Amazing - congratulations Desktop Team!

Alexis DeveriaFyrd Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:16:28 PM

@Junyor

Okay, guess we'll just wait and see then. smile

Mathieu 'p01' HENRIp01 Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:17:24 PM

Zyph: FWIW, although the Desktop Team kick ass, passing Acid3 is down to the Core team.

Hélder Matosyamato74 Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:23:26 PM

congratulations!! well done!

colinscroggins Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:28:44 PM

Congrats Opera Dev team!

Personally, I agree with sentio, the real test is who becomes the first RELEASED browser to support Acid 3. The people I develop for do not use internal, nightly, or beta builds. I want Acid 3 support in a released browser - anything else is meaningless to me!

Zaferarzafen Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:31:24 PM

congrats, great job!

fernando823Fer84 Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:35:38 PM

congratulations! impressive!!!
Lets kick some fan-boys ass!

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