Software-update: Opera public Acid3 build

De ontwikkelaars van Opera hebben een speciale build van de Opera-browser uitgebracht. Het gaat hierbij om de versie die voor de Acid3-test slaagt, met andere woorden de testpagina zonder fouten rendert. De Acid3-build van Opera is volgens de ontwikkelaars geen reguliere versie, maar is gebaseerd op de reference build die door de developers gebruikt wordt om Opera te ontwikkelen. De 'public Acid3 build', zoals de versie van Opera genoemd is, kan voor Windows en Linux gedownload worden en wordt geleverd met de volgende release notes:

As you will notice, this is not a regular Opera desktop build, but a version of WinGogi desktop. This is the Windows version of the reference builds that we use internally for testing Opera's platform-independent Core. "Desktop" means it is compiled with the same feature set as our regular desktop browser. Still, we do not recommend using this build for regular Web surfing as it lacks some of the security-related features found in our regular desktop versions.

In addition to a 100/100 pass rate and pixel-perfect rendering, the animation needs to be "smooth" in order to pass the test formally. While the actual smoothness of the animation to some extent depends on the capabilities of the machine running the build (and even on the responsiveness of the acidtests.org web site and your network connection speed for one of the tests), there are at least two subtests where we feel we need to improve the performance in order to achieve a perfect pass on current hardware. Clicking on the "A" in "Acid3" brings up a dialog listing the tests that took too long to execute.[break]