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Public Acid3 build

By Claudio Santambrogiocsant. Friday, March 28, 2008 12:18:49 PM

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Two days ago Opera reached a 100/100 pass rate on the Acid3 test for the first time and we published a screenshot on the Desktop team blog to back the claim. Lars Erik Bolstad, the Head of Core Technology at Opera Software, now announces the first public build with a 100/100 pass rate and pixel perfect rendering!

Read more and download the special builds linked to in the article! smile

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Comments

kiaM Friday, March 28, 2008 1:11:04 PM

Woot. Downloaded. Now testing...

Edit: Now i see 100/100 with my own eyes. ;-)

johnnysaucepn Friday, March 28, 2008 1:15:40 PM

Exciting stuff - especially to get the little bit of extra insight into the development process... smile

mrd Friday, March 28, 2008 1:18:50 PM

Very cool. Nice to see that smile

varyform Friday, March 28, 2008 1:20:17 PM

Hello, from WinGogi!
Nice skin, btw... but lacks some elements smile

Ar1Pear1pe Friday, March 28, 2008 1:29:01 PM

bigsmile

stranded Friday, March 28, 2008 1:32:18 PM

it actually works xD

I LOVE THAT ICON xD for wingogi_release_desktop.exe

mrd Friday, March 28, 2008 1:33:33 PM

This is just a stealth way of getting feedback on the.... icon isn't it?

The whole ACID3 thing, yeah yeah whatever. You're all sitting around at OperaCentral watching for what we say about the Icon.

And you get two thumbs up from me (and the cat meows).

johnnysaucepn Friday, March 28, 2008 1:34:47 PM

No, this is the new Opera Lite people have been asking for.

Zurtex Friday, March 28, 2008 1:35:28 PM

I notice you have to press the back button 5 times after completing the test for you to actually go back, is this expected behavior?

halabund Friday, March 28, 2008 1:36:32 PM

Does this version have its own font rendering engine (or maybe it uses FreeType)? The fonts look very different from what we are used to on Windows. I noticed this on the first screenshot that was posted, too.

Hermenhermen2048 Friday, March 28, 2008 1:36:32 PM

Yeah, the icon is nice smile
Note that it also supports the 3D canvas extensions.

lamarca lamarca Friday, March 28, 2008 1:37:23 PM

downloading

Kristofferstoffix Friday, March 28, 2008 1:38:23 PM

@ zurtex:
probably not, but this build is just a demonstration of opera almost passing the Acid 3 test. you should definitively just use this build for testing.

James Cassellelitegeek Friday, March 28, 2008 1:40:00 PM

Cool! thanks!

Tim AltmanJunyor Friday, March 28, 2008 1:40:17 PM

There's a screenshot at http://weblog.timaltman.com/archive/2008/03/28/acid3-100100-and-pixel-perfect, for anyone that's interested.

Arjan van LeeuwenAVL Friday, March 28, 2008 1:40:36 PM

halabund: yes, it uses FreeType.

stranded Friday, March 28, 2008 1:42:46 PM

I really like how slim and thin this engine thing is, if only we could customize Opera to look like that whistle

Cyro Friday, March 28, 2008 1:44:06 PM

Originally posted by johnnysaucepn:

No, this is the new Opera Lite people have been asking for.


Fearphage must be rolling over in his grave!

skye11 Friday, March 28, 2008 1:48:35 PM

excellent!!!

Investor Friday, March 28, 2008 1:52:01 PM

How to install this *Opera Lite* ??? Which win-zip file ?

Mathieu 'p01' HENRIp01 Friday, March 28, 2008 1:56:44 PM

Way to go!

Interestingly Opera/Gogi scores 100/100 consistently. It doesn't take a reload or two *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*

berend ytsmaytsmabeer Friday, March 28, 2008 1:57:08 PM

How to install this *Opera Lite* ??? Which win-zip file ?


Install? just run the exe file which is in it.
This is not you everyday snapshot or build it's wingogi smile

FataL Friday, March 28, 2008 1:58:16 PM

Wow!
Now to testing...

I like the skin BTW... up smile

Claudio Santambrogiocsant Friday, March 28, 2008 2:01:06 PM

Originally posted by stranded:

I really like how slim and thin this engine thing is, if only we could customize Opera to look like that



My Opera actually looks like that wink

MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage Friday, March 28, 2008 2:04:24 PM

Originally posted by Cyro:

Originally posted by johnnysaucepn:

No, this is the new Opera Lite people have been asking for.

Fearphage must be rolling over in his grave!

I am not amused. irked It would be nice though.

Tamil Friday, March 28, 2008 2:10:09 PM

love

rwf Friday, March 28, 2008 2:12:46 PM

Definitely not very smooth for me. Gets 100/100 though. GNU/Linux - Gentoo--i686

Failed 0 tests
Test 22   89ms  (less than 30fps)
Test 23  219ms      "
Test 26 3248ms      "
Test 39   54ms      "
Test 40   93ms      "
Test 43   36ms      "
Test 46   52ms      "
Test 47   37ms      "
Test 65  118ms      "
Test 71   59ms      "
Test 77  142ms      "
Test 78   39ms      "
Test 79  166ms      "
Test 89   36ms  (less than 30fps)
Total elapsed times: 7.38s


Edit: 400MHz CPU; 768 DSL link; no Desktop just Fluxbox as WM.

Investor Friday, March 28, 2008 2:16:58 PM

@ytsmabeer :

Install? just run the exe file which is in it.
This is not you everyday snapshot or build it's wingogi


Well, tried to run the "wingogi release desktop exe" file, but it crashed...
I'm not a geek wink anyway thanks

FataL Friday, March 28, 2008 2:21:03 PM

Where is "Paint" button? wink

And I just love non-modal alert boxes! up
Left it non-modal for us web devs, please...

Tamil Friday, March 28, 2008 2:26:52 PM

Originally posted by varyform:

Nice skin

Originally posted by FataL:

I like the skin BTW...

yes

zombie Friday, March 28, 2008 2:31:26 PM

Here's my result:

LinGogi Screenshot

Johannes HoffOpJohannes Friday, March 28, 2008 2:32:38 PM

@Investor: Make sure you unzip the whole thing and run it from there. You can't run it from within the zipfile.

Zotlan Friday, March 28, 2008 2:33:41 PM

halabund: yes, it uses FreeType.


I am definitely liking that. Will we be seeing that in Kestrel as well or will we have to wait until Opera 10?
*hopes the skin of Opera 10 will be similar to this one*

stranded Friday, March 28, 2008 2:34:38 PM

csant:
:O

AndrewAndrewNi Friday, March 28, 2008 2:37:39 PM

I like the freetype on WinGogi. Is WinGogi based off Merlin, Kestrel or ..? smile

My results:

Test 26 passed, but took 391ms.
Test 69 passed, but took 20 attempts.

Tim AltmanJunyor Friday, March 28, 2008 2:38:25 PM

We have no plans to copy features from GOGI into Opera for Desktop. No icon. No non-modal dialogs. No "Paint" button. No FreeType font rendering. Opera for Desktop and GOGI have very different purposes and levels of OS integration.

@rwf: The Acid3 test depends a lot on your computer hardware, what other applications are running, and your connection latency.

Justasdrumblius Friday, March 28, 2008 2:46:17 PM

thanks cheers

Zotlan Friday, March 28, 2008 2:48:48 PM

We have no plans to copy features from GOGI into Opera for Desktop.


Shame that, it looks a lot nicer here.

Idan AdarYtseJam Friday, March 28, 2008 2:48:49 PM

How about just the icon? Or do you keep all the good stuff to yourself? smile

olli Friday, March 28, 2008 2:54:32 PM

No

Idan AdarYtseJam Friday, March 28, 2008 2:55:54 PM

No, you don't keep all the good stuff to yourself or no, we will not get the icon either? p

olli Friday, March 28, 2008 2:58:54 PM

The icon used in gogi is not tailored for a final product..

Investor Friday, March 28, 2008 2:59:05 PM

@OpJohannes :

@Investor: Make sure you unzip the whole thing and run it from there. You can't run it from within the zipfile.


Thanks, running now up

rwf Friday, March 28, 2008 3:18:49 PM

I assume it's standard to get different test results i.e. Test 69 is now saying took 1 attempts (less than perfect). Test 69 was not mentioned the first time I took the test.

tickleme Friday, March 28, 2008 3:22:20 PM

Congratulations and +1 regarding the icon. This icon looks mighty good indeed (at least at 16x16).

jcboogabug Friday, March 28, 2008 3:24:22 PM

I've downloaded the Linux tar.gz file. how do i install? I'm on Ubuntu Linux 7.10

Arve Bersvendsenvirtuelvis Friday, March 28, 2008 3:27:45 PM

@boogabug: Open a terminal and cd to the directory you unpacked the tar.gz in, and type './lingogi' in the terminal.

Andresandresruiz Friday, March 28, 2008 3:28:06 PM

WOw, thanks for providing us with that build

Travis Belltravisbell Friday, March 28, 2008 3:33:04 PM

What's with the lack of a Mac build sad

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