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But it was better. The UX was way too good, even if things like standards implementation weren't great.

• digi_owl 10y ago
  I seem to recall that back then Opera stood shoulder to shoulder with Mozilla about standard correctness.
  • Macha 10y ago
    Iirc, Opera was actually quite ahead of Firefox in passing acid3, though can't remember if they were first or if WebKit was
    • xorcist 10y ago
      It probably helped that Håkon Lie, who proposed/invented CSS, worked at Opera.
  • gsnedders 10y ago
    Until ~2010ish, Opera was per-se pretty much competitive (after that, the other vendors were implementing new specs quicker), but there were some notable differences, especially around places where specs allowed multiple behaviours and every vendor except for Opera had converged on one behaviour a decade earlier (rounding of CSS values comes to mind here, but was far from the only case), and that caused more and more problems and web-developer pain as the web became increasingly complex.