Opera passes Safari in Acid Test
Opera passes Safari in Acid Test
March 27, 2008: Opera has recorded a 100% score in the Acid3 web standards test with an internal build of their web browser, surpassing Apple’s Safari which had recorded a 96%.
Acid tests put web browsers through their paces by subjecting them to a highly complex web page that contains many different tests to determine how well your browser can handle different web standards. The Web Standard Project’s Acid1 and Acid2 tests proved hugely successful and popular and the group has recently released Acid3 this month to further push browsers to the test.
David Storey, chief web opener at Opera has released details on his blog that an internal build of the web browser had posted a 98% and then a 100% on the Acid3 test. “Working into the night, our core developers have fixed the final 2%, making Opera the first browser to reach 100% in the DOM tests,” He said.
This has seen Opera’s scores overtake Apple’s Safari web browser which has posted 96% and Firefox 3 Beta’s 71%, Microsoft’s market leading Internet Explorer 7 and in production version 8 has yet to post official scores for the test. Storey also points out that the test hasn’t actually been fully passed yet by the Opera browser, as there are some rendering issues, though this isn’t expected to last long.
While the test results sound promising, neither the latest release of Safari nor the upcoming release of Opera will include the internal builds that recorded such high scores, so for now the public will have to play the waiting game before seeing high scores on their own browsers.