After posting a screenshot of Opera’s 100/100 score in the Acid3 test, Opera team today released a public build, so everyone could check that by themselves.

As it says in the “Opera Labs” article, this is not a regular build, but a version of WinGogi desktop.

For more details check Opera Labs page.
Download Opera’s 100/100 Acid Test Build (Windows)
Download Opera’s 100/100 Acid Test Build (Linux)

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Although most of people said that Opera 9.5 was the first web browser ever to score 100/100, I disagree with that. What about you? Actually, I even don’t understand why they had to report that at all as fans started to submit stories to digg, reddit and other news web sites and could confuse some of the readers. Opera Team “said” that they’ve reached 100/100 first, showed a picture as prove but haven’t provided any builds for anyone to run the Acid3 test themselves, so no one could confirm that…

As for now, let’s get back to the topic. Congratulations so the Safari 3 team. Here you can download their latest nightly build and run Acid3 test yourself.

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At least this blog post says so.

Our latest internal build (screenshot below) scores 100/100 and renders the test almost perfectly! We have some work to do still, but we expect to have that taking care of shortly

However, we don’t have a winner yet (till the release is available to public).

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It looks like Opera 9.5 is no longer the only one “in the lead”. The latest Safari 3 nightly release scores 98/100 as well.

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The Acid3 race is getting really intense (and I love that). Right after I’ve posted about Safari’s great results in the Acid3 test (96/100), Fyrd pointed out that the latest Opera 9.5 weekly build is in the lead with the following results: 98/100.

So who will win this race? Go ahead and vote here.

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Just a short update regarding the Acid 3 test… Safari team is doing a really great job as the current Safari build is now passing 96/100 Acid 3 tests and is leading in this Acid 3 race.

If you haven’t voted in “The Acid3 Race, Who Will Win It?” post, feel free to do that now. So far the results are:

Opera (55%, 115 Votes)
Safari (25%, 52 Votes)
Firefox (14%, 29 Votes)
Other (5%, 10 Votes)
Internet Explorer (1%, 2 Votes)

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While Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 don’t pass Acid2 test and only their future versions will do that (Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3), the Acid3 test is already released. This one gives even more headaches to web browsers developers as well as some “pressure”, it’s like a mini competition. So who will pass it first?

Acid3 tests the following specifications:

DOM2 Core
DOM2 Events
DOM2 HTML
DOM2 Range
DOM2 Style (getComputedStyle, …)
DOM2 Traversal (NodeIterator, TreeWalker)
DOM2 Views (defaultView)
ECMAScript
HTML4 (object, iframe, …)
HTTP (Content-Type, 404, …)
Media Queries
Selectors (:lang, :nth-child(), combinators, dynamic changes, …)
XHTML 1.0
CSS2 (@font-face)
CSS2.1 (’inline-block’, ‘pre-wrap’, parsing…)
CSS3 Color (rgba(), hsla(), …)
CSS3 UI (’cursor’)
data: URIs
SVG (SVG Animation, SVG Fonts, …)

My vote goes for Safari. They’re already working hard to pass this one as soon as possible. Also, Safari 2.0.2 was the first web browser, which passed the Acid2 test. What’s your vote?

Take the Acid3 test.

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