“With [build] r31342 WebKit has become the first publicly available rendering engine to achieve 100/100 on Acid3,” Maciej Stachowiak reports for Surfin’ Safari.
Full article here.
Chris Foresman reports for Ars Technica, “Released at the beginning of this month, Acid 3 scores browsers on a scale of 100 different series of tests. Each series must be passed completely to score the point for that series, up to 100. In the past three weeks, the WebKit team has been furiously squashing bugs and expanding standards support, adding a point or two with nearly every posted fix.”
Foresman reports, “The rush was on to be the first, and WebKit was poised to win when Opera claimed a 100/100 just 40 minutes before a 100/100 was posted to Surfin’ Safari. Turns out that the WebKit team found a bug in the Acid 3 Test itself. When the fix was posted, Opera scored a 99 and WebKit a 100. Burn!”
Full article here.
Michael Rose reports for TUAW, “While both Opera and WebKit have claimed 100% on Acid3, only one of the browsers — WebKit — has a publicly downloadable version right now that can make that score. Opera’s build won’t be released for another week or so.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “RadDoc” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Note: Net Applications’ Top 5 Web Browsers based on usage of a network of 40,000+ websites for February 2008:
• Microsoft Internet Explorer – 74.88%
• Firefox – 17.27%
• Safari – 5.70%
• Opera – 0.69%
• Netscape – 0.68%
Suck it Opera,
Congratulations to the guys at webkit. They have been hard at work for the last week. Their recent focus has been on passing this test, which included some nasty tests, but the current builds are also super fast. Try them out for both Mac and Windows.
IE is still that high huh?
I never thought I would be excited about running Safari, but I am. Now, I’m looking forward to each new release the same way I have with Firefox in the past.
@ mr_matalino:
Ignorance and masochism abound.
amazing.
Most people use a browser that doesn’t properly render web pages.
stupid sheep.
“IE is still that high huh?”
It’s like sound systems in cars. You can easily improve your stereo by replacing the unit supplied by the manufacturer, but most do not. They simply drive for years, settling for “okay”.
They only difference is that browsers are free, and easy to replace. So are IE users idiots? Not really. Most of the issues covered in the ACID 3 test are over the heads and unnoticed by the average user. IE is “good enough” for the average user not to feel the need to change.
on a side note, I run little scripts to automatically download things off of the internet. I run these scripts on a browser.
Opera is the ONLY one that works for me. I wish firefox and safari worked with my scripts.
So Opera is low on the list, but I am thankful it still exists.
My two remaining bitches about Safari are:
Not every link clicked on will open in a new tab without pushing the command key.
Reopening the last closed tab (not window – which is a menu option) without resorting to opening a new blank tab and then finding the one you just closed in the history.
If I’m overlooking something please let me know.
Kudos to both teams! I’m not a fan of the Opera browser, but the more compliant these browsers are, the better for all.
We’ve just got to stop using MS products. At 74% for IE we’re just giving it to MS for free, and continuing to enable vendors to start all of their respective tech-support replies with, “1. You must be using IE…”
I’ve got a question, will the world keep on spinning even if we all stop using MS products? It would appear that most people don’t think so.
What about IE?
Bahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!
“IE is still that high huh?” Sadly, yes.
Some don’t know (there’s anything else out there)
Some don’t care (that there’s something better)
Some aren’t permitted (as in many organizations) to use anything else.
Mr. Peabody…
I’d wager that most Windows users think that Solitaire IS Windows. … And the Internet is a series of tubes.
Once these people discover that A, Solitaire can be played with physical playing cards and B Solitaire is available on other computer platforms, the world THEY know will cease to spin.
Many people believe that the big blue “e” on their desktop is the internet. Remember that not a great deal of people are extremely tech savvy, or even mildly tech capable. So, a good portion of those people using IE don’t even know that there is an alternative to IE nor would they even be able to give you a description of what a web browser is or does.
@Cubert: “Not every link clicked on will open in a new tab without pushing the command key.”
Why would you want this??? You’d end up with a slew of tabs. It’s the web designer, not the browser, that decides whether a link will open in the Parent or a new Blank page.
Opera has a full-screen view and Safari doesn’t. Opera passes the LSD test.
@Spark
Cubert, I believe, is requesting that all “target=_blank” links open in tabs, not new windows. This is a great feature in Firefox, as it keeps users from having 900 windows piled on top of each other.
@Spark,
Because that’s what tabs are for. I much prefer to open a link in another tab and then get to it later. Many times I open multiple tabs in succession and look at them later. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
Kudos to Safari and Opera for scoring so well and pushing the envelope. [Warning, envelope may contain a MacBook Air.]
Additional Kudos to Opera for not whining like a little girl (Apologies to ChrissyOne
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@bon,
Exactly! For example, in Firefox, when you click on one of the movies on RedTube, it opens in another tab. When you do the same in Safari, it opens in another window. So annoying – totally messes up my rhythm.
MDN, you should have listed how the other browsers score on the Acid3 test. Off the top of my head, I think IE7 scores like a 14 out of 100.
@Cubert,
“Not every link clicked on will open in a new tab without pushing the command key.”
Paste the following in Terminal and hit enter:
defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true
Now re-launch Safari and you’re all set.
@Cubert,
“Not every link clicked on will open in a new tab without pushing the command key.”
Paste the following in Terminal and hit enter:
defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true
Now re-launch Safari and you’re all set.
I’m posting treestman’s post to make sure you see this. I was about to post the same. I can’t tell you how happy I was when I found out that this is now possible in Safari 3.1. Enjoy.
Webkit gets a 100/100 but it does not pass because the animation is not smooth.