gHacks technology news » javascript test http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:02:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Opera 10 Alpha Passes Acid 3 Test http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/04/opera-10-alpha-passes-acid-3-test/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/04/opera-10-alpha-passes-acid-3-test/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:56:29 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8714 A first alpha preview of the upcoming web browser Opera 10 has been released by the Opera development team. Among the most notable difference to previous versions is that the browser is passing the Acid 3 test with a score of 100/100. Opera 10 makes use of the new Presto 2.2 rendering engine which improves speed, performance and security significantly.

The Opera team speaks of a 30% speed increase over the previous version of the rendering engine. A test of the JavaScript performance of Opera 10 revealed astonishing results. Opera 10 completed the
Web Browser Javascript Benchmark in 188ms which is very fast compared to Firefox 3.0.4 which needed 349ms, Safari 3.1.2 with 344ms or Opera 9.52 with 420ms. It’s obviously not fair to compare a development release with web browsers who have already been released but it should give anyone an understanding about the performance increase in this new Opera version.

What else is new in Opera 10? Opera 10 adds a long requested inline spellchecker and an interesting auto-update function which can update Opera automatically whenever a new version has been released.

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Web developers will like the support of web fonts, SVG and opacity through RGBA and HSLA. The current release schedule aims for a beta in early 2009 and a final release of Opera 10 later that year.

Interested users can download the Opera 10 alpha release for Windows, Linux or Mac.

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