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Opera for Symbian passes Acid2

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 3:30:20 PM

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You read it correctly, us here at the Symbian team at Opera have now got Opera for Symbian to pass the ACID2 test.

Acid2 employs certain features of HTML, and more prominently CSS. The purpose of employing such features is to highlight the problems with browsers that do not display it correctly. The Acid2 test should render correctly on any browser that follows the W3C HTML and CSS 2.0 specifications. Any browsers which do not correctly and completely support all of the features which Acid2 takes advantage of will not render the page correctly.

For reference, have a look at how Internet Explorer 6.0 renders this test, or even how Mozilla Firefox 1.5 handles itself!