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[Gregor]

The Web Standards Project has released the latest in their series of browser compatibility tests: Acid3. Even though Acid3 is based on 4 year old standards, no currently shipping browser passes as of this writing.

Complete article: Here
My results :

FIREFOX 3.0B3............ 59 / 100
SAFARI 3.0.4 (Win)...... 39 / 100

It took forever (almost 3 years) for browsers to pass Acid2 test. We can speculate on this one......
BTW the worst browser is IE - nothing suprising...

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/523.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Safari/523.15

[Gregor]

I just run the test on Safari 3.1 (Build 525.12) on XP and I came to the surprisingly good result of 76 out of 100. So, the Apple developers are doing good job too.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1 Safari/525.12

[James]

Did you try Opera?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12

[Antony]

Thanks Gregor,

I am very happy to know that Safari is doing so well.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12

[Gregor]

Did you try Opera?

No. James i didn`t because I don`t use Opera anymore. I am very pleased with Safari these days, especially with latest 3.1 beta version.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1 Safari/525.12

[Antony]

Guess which browser scored 100 on Acid3?

TUAW says Webkit gets a perfect 100 on Acid3!

Webkit is the code base of Apple Safari. (Just like the Gecko Rendering Engine for Firefox.) Apple has recently released Safari 3.1 for Mac and Windows.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12

[James]

"On Wednesday evening, both the Opera and WebKit teams declared a 100% score -- not a full pass, as there are minor issues to clean up, but nevertheless the test looks like it should. "

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13

[Don_HH2K]

I read yesterday that an internal Opera build beat Webkit by anywhere between a few hours and a day, though since Opera doesn't publicize its testing releases there's no way to verify it yet. There isn't an officially-released version of an Acid3-compliant Webkit as of yet either, but if you're so inclined you can go pick up a recent nightly build from the Webkit developer site.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/2.2.1; Linux 2.4.8-26mdk; X11; i586; en_US, en)

[Antony]

We all know that both Opera and Safari's WebKit achieve nearly 100% on Acid3 test, and Mozilla's Firefox did not score well.

Response from Mozilla on not achieving well in Acid 3 test? Calling Acid3 test being biased, favouring WebKit and Opera. From your beloved open-source Mozilla co-founder Mike Shaver and Mozilla developer Rob Sayre, they bashed Acid3 instead.

It is worth noting that back in 2006, when IE did not pass Acid2, Microsoft's All Billing said:

We’ve written about the Acid2 test before. It is not a compliance test but is, instead, a wish list. We’ve been clear that we were not going to pass this test since we were first asked about this. The author of the test is well aware of this.

(Please note that there was no bashing tones from Microsoft's response.)

Then in 2007 when IE8 (standard mode) passed Acid2, it was referred as a milestone.

Had Firefox passed the Acid3 test or being the first browser to pass Acid3 test, we could have expected unnecessary bragging about it.

More detail at Mozilla blasts Acid3 as Safari and Opera grab the brass ring (ZDNet.com) Worth reading!

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13

[James]

Antony, I agree with this. I've found a number of examples of folks (particularly at Netscape) speaking out of both sides of their mouths and I've said as much. Now with this Acid test, I see that Asa has finally given kudos to Opera (wonder of wonders). Frankly, it's about time. I get a bit tired of his constant baiting of Opera in order to win points for Firefox. Why he (and others) feel the need to do this is beyond me. It sort of reminds me of the old Pepsi ads of the 70's. Rather than promote Pepsi, they based Coca Cola thinking that this would advance their own product. In the long run, it backfired. Netscape were the first to point accusing fingers at MS when it was slow to get patches out for security issues. When it was revealed that future support for NN9 would cease, suddenly it became perfectly okay to continue using an unpatched piece of software. I call that... speaking out of both sides of one's mouth.

Kudos to Apple and to Opera. It's time Firefox dug in harder and caught up in the web standards compliance department.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5