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Opera 10 Alpha 1 web browser passes the Acid3 test

WindowsMacLinuxby Brad Linder Dec 4th 2008

Opera 10 Alpha 1
The latest version of the Opera web browser gets a perfect score on the Acid3 web standards test, which is pretty impressive until you realize that Firefox and Internet Explorer fall short of that score. And if the two most popular web browsers on the face of the earth don't fully meet these web standards, what good are they exactly?

That said, Opera 10 Alpha 1 includes a number of other tweaks that make this web browser worth checking out:
  • Inline spell checking
  • Automatic updates
  • Updated Presto 2.2 rendering engine
Opera Mail has also been improved, as has the Opera Widget engine for the Linux version of the cross-platform web browser.

Tags: acid3, opera, opera-10, opera-10-alpha-1, web-standards

Filed under: Mozilla, Open Source, Browsers, Mobile

Firefox for Windows Mobile images surface

by Brad Linder Oct 11th 2008

Fennec WM
We've known for a while that Mozilla was working on a mobile version of Firefox. In fact, you can already download early builds of the web browser, codenamed Fennec, but at the moment it will only run on the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet.

But Mozilla says a Windows Mobile version of Fennec is on its way and that an Alpha release could come within the next few weeks. And now a few screenshots have surfaced which would seem to indicate that at least someone is already running Fennec on a Windows Mobile phone.

If the screenshot on the left looks rather crowded for a mobile browser, it's important to keep in mind that Fennec works in full screen mode most of the time. The location bar, tab menu, and even forward, back, and reload buttons are all designed to disappear when you're not using them. But Fennec does seem to take an interesting approach to tabbed browsing by presenting thumbnails of open pages, which seems both useful and like a potential waste of processing power on mobile devices.

One of the screenshots visible at the::unwired shows Fennec's score on the Acid3 test. The results? An 88. Not perfect, but not bad for a brwoser designed to run on a cellphone or PDA.

Tags: acid3, fennec, firefox-mobile, windows-mobile

Filed under: Internet, Microsoft

Wikipedia gets WebSlices, or at least one WebSlice

by Brad Linder Mar 28th 2008

Wikipedia WebSlice

Want to see how that newfangled WebSlices in Internet Explorer 8 work? Just fire up IE8 beta and surf on over to Wikipedia, where you can find a WebSlice in an article on the Acid3 internet standards test. Blogger Long Zheng brought the new feature to our attention.

Here's how it works. When you visit a page with an embedded WebSlice, like the Acid3 Wikipedia page, a little purple symbol will pop up when you scroll your mouse over a portion of the page which is available as a WebSlice. Click the icon and a pop up menu will ask if you want to save the content to your favorites bar. Once you do, you'll be able to see that content by clicking the bookmark in your favorites bar, without clicking through to the actual web page.

What makes this different from a regular bookmark is that you'll only see a portion of the page. In this example, a chart showing how well different web browsers perform on the Acid3 test. As the Wikipedia article is updated, you'll always see the latest version in your browser without having to constantly revisit the Wikipedia page.

Now honestly, we're not convinced this is the best use of WebSlices. There's only so much room in the favorites bar, and do you really want to clutter it up with a chart showing Acid3 compliance results? But until more blogs and news sites that are updated more frequently start adopting WebSlices, we figured we'd point you toward Wikipedia just so you can see the technology in action.

[via istartedsomething]

Tags: acid3, ie8, internet-explorer-8, webslices, wikipedia

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