“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%