Opera rocks Sputnik

March 15, 2010 · by Aleksander Aas

Sputnik is a JavaScript 3 conformance test tool released by Google to test different browsers. In particular the ECMA-262 spec. In simpler terms it's about 5000 JavaScript tests producing a cool curling SVG with the best browser closest to the center. We think it must have something to do with the pants.

It can't be a coincidence that the best looking browser and curling team hails from Norway.

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random414Monday, March 15, 2010 12:33:00 PM
Aleksander AasMonday, March 15, 2010 1:10:33 PM
From wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curling

To explain the joke for those who didn't get it. The pants on the picture are from the Norwegian national team in the Olympics in Vancouver. They got a lot of feedback due to the colors and pattern on them eventually they got silver.

Opera on the other hand if the score from Sparta is correct would win!
Mağruf ÇolakoğluMonday, March 15, 2010 1:27:42 PM
http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/BigGrin.gif -
Charles SchlossMonday, March 15, 2010 1:53:56 PM
http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/BigGrin.gif -

This the test site: http://sputnik.googlelabs.com/ ?
CarolMonday, March 15, 2010 3:02:57 PM
best looking especially the pants
Espen André ØverdahlMonday, March 15, 2010 3:20:32 PM
Originally posted by Chas4:

This the test site: http://sputnik.googlelabs.com/ ?
No, this is: http://sputnik.googlelabs.com/run
Cutting SpoonMonday, March 15, 2010 3:38:44 PM
Yeah I was wondering about that. Seems Carakan came just in time for the updates to Sputnik. Memory use is also dramatically lower than when I first tried it.

Any hint whether Opera will be releasing another MAMA report?
Charles SchlossMonday, March 15, 2010 3:46:39 PM
Originally posted by EspenAO:

http://sputnik.googlelabs.com/run

Tested Safari 4.0.5 this morning and it froze
Cutting SpoonMonday, March 15, 2010 4:33:55 PM
...and did you reopen, load last seesion, continue the test? POS may crash, but sputnik will then skip the crashers and continue.
Charles SchlossMonday, March 15, 2010 5:56:12 PM
Just stated again it froze at 71%

Total: 5246
Succeeded: 5083
Failed: 163

Did the test again and it did not freeze.

Opera does the best by far http://sputnik.googlelabs.com/compare
Cutting SpoonMonday, March 15, 2010 6:30:23 PM
Yep. OperaDrBruce's link also shocked me: http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/results.action?key=38gY

Are they aiming for first in speed AND completeness? And if Sunspider number continue to shine, how does even V8 look right now?
Charles SchlossMonday, March 15, 2010 6:47:55 PM
Originally posted by hellspork:

Yep. OperaDrBruce's link also shocked me: http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/results.action?key=38gY
PozsonyiMarkMonday, March 15, 2010 8:58:49 PM
Grat!
Make Opera perfect!
Uncle MickMonday, March 15, 2010 9:57:02 PM
Nice draw onto the button.

Any curlers at Opera? Do you have a team?
Daniel HendrycksMonday, March 15, 2010 11:37:05 PM
Lv1zTuesday, March 16, 2010 1:11:08 AM
http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/ThumbsUp.gif -
d4rkn1ghtTuesday, March 16, 2010 4:05:16 AM
Aleksander AasTuesday, March 16, 2010 7:51:17 AM
Originally posted by Mickeyjoe_irl:

Any curlers at Opera? Do you have a team?

I've heard rumors about a team, but nothing more
YndiTuesday, March 16, 2010 9:48:25 PM
What about
http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/ietestcenter/

Are these tests really created along the W3C standards?
Because how can the IE pass all those tests while only getting 55/100 in Acid3?
Daniel HendrycksTuesday, March 16, 2010 11:50:50 PM
Originally posted by Yndi:

Because how can the IE pass all those tests while only getting 55/100 in Acid3?

It optimized itself for htese tests. Overall, the new IE engine is very nice. Not as good as Presto or Webkit, but a bit better than Gecko (not just judging by the Acid3 score).
Cutting SpoonWednesday, March 17, 2010 4:03:37 PM
Yeah I saw that, Daniel. IE9 passes 100% of the "tests publicly submitted by Microsoft". Though actually Opera does fine on the most important of those tests.