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Acid3 Race In Full Swing, Opera Overtakes Safari

Posted by Zonk on from the going-for-the-gold dept.

enemi writes "Just a few days after Safari released version 3.1, Opera employee David Storey writes on his blog that they've overtaken Apple's browser in the Acid3 test. In the race to be the first to reach the reference rendering, Opera's software leads now with 98%, closely following by Safari with 96% and Firefox 3 beta 4 with 71%. He also noted the implemented features will not make a public appearance in the following weeks, because they are getting close to releasing Opera 9.5. That version has been under public testing since September and the new CSS3 color modes and font rendering features might further delay this. They will probably show the score in a preview build soon and wait for a post 9.5 stable build to release the new features to the public." Update: 03/26 21:21 GMT by Z : Opera is now at 100%, apparently, with Safari close behind at 98%. Update: 03/27 by J : Public build r31356 of WebKit (Safari's rendering engine) is at 100%.

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  1. Shoot.. by zulater · · Score: 5, Funny

    With Firefox 2.0.0.13 I've been doing just find rendering the render image properly!

    http://acid3.acidtests.org/reference.html

  2. Pointless by scubamage · · Score: 1, Funny

    The whole competition is pointless - we all know IE8 will be the clear winner. Its ok, I couldn't read that with a straight face either.

  3. Someone better get a move on... by Angostura · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... and get Acid 4 ready.

  4. Safari vs. Safari by choongiri · · Score: 4, Funny

    Update: 03/26 21:21 GMT by Z: Safari is now at 100%, apparently, with Safari close behind at 98%.
    **$%..brainsplode
  5. Re:Incorrect update by powerlord · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah... odd...

    But I REALLY want to know is, How is Safari doing? :P

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  6. Re:Update: by whitehatlurker · · Score: 3, Funny
    Can you spot the problem?

    Um, Zonk?

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  7. Re:What about IE? by alexhs · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've heard that latest build of IE8 would do 103.6/100 .
    But, in order to get that remarkable achievement, you might need to use it in conjunction with MS Excel 2007...

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  8. Re:Is anyone else concerned about the 'hacks' ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The preceding message brought to you by the Internet Explorer team.

  9. Re:Opera is the greatest web browser ever. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    True. It's only Firefox that sucks.