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Passing the Acid 3 test, is a difficult ask for any browser, even if it’s Chrome. But 13 year old underdog, Opera has now become the world’s first “Full Acid 3 Compliant Browser” with its Opera 10 alpha.

The Web Standards Project created the Acid tests to check a range of linking and rendering abilities in browsers to encourage a standard baseline for coding. These tests ensure that browsers are compliant on rendering any kind of web page.

To see what score opera gets in comparison to other browser’s, here is a list:

• Opera 10 Alpha –        100/100
• Firefox 3.0.4     -        71/100
• Firefox 3.1 beta 1 -    89/100
• Google Chrome 0.4 -  79/100
• Internet Explorer 7 -  14/100

Powered by it’s Presto 2.2 rendering engine, the Opera 10 alpha, is now 30% more faster. And along with that it introduces a text field spell-checker.

Whether Opera can make a mark on the desktop platform, that remains a question, but certainly it could be a leader on the mobile platform.

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