Second Stop - Opera 9.25 (Presto)

Opera is a very capable browser, despite its small market share. Probably the fact that, for a pretty long time, it was a commercial product, contributed to this, but I don't care about the market share this browser has. All I am interested in is the fact that it uses its own rendering engine, and the fact that some sites have problems displaying on this is not because Opera doesn't comply with standards, but because those sites were "built for IE". Now, let's see how well does Opera comply with the standards...


As you can see above, the score in Acid3 is pretty high, when looking back at Internet Explorer. It seems Opera 9.50 Beta has a score that's even better, but I won't get into it now. I didn't try that version yet, because I really want to be shocked by how good is going to be the next Opera version, without going through any Beta until the final version is released!


At last, it should be noted that Opera has been passing the Acid2 test since version 9.0, released on the 20th of June, 2006. Above, you can see the Acid2 page as displayed by my Opera 9.25 browser...

These being said, prepare to face Mozilla's rendering engine tomorrow, in the last episode of this short article series about the main layout engines and their compatibility with existing Web standards...