Safari (WebKit) passes acid3

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WebKit achieves Acid3 100/100 in public build

Surfin’ Safari

UPDATE We now believe we have a full rendering pass (but not necessarily an animation smoothness pass yet). See the bottom of the post for details.
UPDATE The Windows nightly is now available for download. See below for details.
With r31342 WebKit has become the first publicly available rendering engine to achieve 100/100 on Acid3. The final test, test 79, was a brutal torture test of SVG text rendering. Details of the bugs we fixed will follow. Indeed, we found a critical bug in the test itself that would have forced a violation of the SVG 1.1 standard to pass, so until a few hours ago it was not possible to get a valid 100/100. Acid3 test editor Ian Hickson has the details.
Note: this does not indicate a full pass of Acid3. We have a slight glitch in the text rendering that is likely to be fixed soon (patch in progress). Also, the animation is required to be smooth. On typical machines, if you look really closely, you can see a small glitch in the animation on test 26 because 26 is designed to be a performance test. However, we think we are faster than all other browsers on test 26. What constitutes a smooth animation is somewhat subjective.

Planet WebKit

[chedabob]

You're a little late to the party...

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One day late isn't too bad. Considering you still have major browsers that hasn't passed the test yet!

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Mozilla have said that they couldn't give a shite about standards that their users won't see any benefits from, and are concentrating on retaining Firefox's status as the best browser.

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Originally Posted by chedabob

Mozilla have said that they couldn't give a shite about standards that their users won't see any benefits from, and are concentrating on retaining Firefox's status as the best browser.

How can you be the best when you don't care about standards! That's it no more Firefox for me!

Future releases of Konqueror will switch to WebKit

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They do target standards. That's why FF3 passes Acid2. Acid3 is for pure developer snobbery.

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Originally Posted by chedabob

They do target standards. That's why FF3 passes Acid2. Acid3 is for pure developer snobbery.

Really?
Opera, Safari, Konqueror and others passed Acid2 years before IE8 and FF3.

That aside, WebKit is a free open source engine, Epiphany (GNOME default browser) is actually switching to WebKit last I've heard, why doesn't Mozilla switch to WebKit instead of Gecko. WebKit proved itself to be more standard complaince, faster and just more l33t. Google, Nokia and others are using WebKit, so there is a huge corporate power behind it.

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Gecko is way more mature than Webkit. Hence why they are sticking to it.

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Originally Posted by chedabob

Gecko is way more mature than Webkit. Hence why they are sticking to it.

Mature? How? What? As in?
Please Elaborate!!!

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As in, been around much longer.

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