Comments on: Safari passes the Acid Test

By: MeorrrGuy

MeorrrGuy — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 22:37:05 +0000

It took a long time for it to reach my desktop. I’m running Safari 2.0.2 (416.12) that renders Acid2 correctly. Mac OS X 10.4.3.

By: nzgfxguru

nzgfxguru — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

[quote=”Alex Walker”]In reality, it’s probably doubtful that the IE7 team will even publicly acknowledge Acid2. But I’m pretty sure it’ll be a pretty fiesty discussion point internally[/quote]
Lol, it sure will be fiesty externally as well. When web developers get into this it will become as big as the Firefox vs IE debate.

Well done Safari BTW !

Good article, thanks for the ‘heads up’ with these developments Alex.

By: Dean C

Dean C — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Wow, good on the Safari team for passing the test ;)!

By: charmedlover

charmedlover — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

I’m wondering how it renders in Opera8, I’ll have to test that later. Kind of is shocking how no web browsers pass the test, so how did they personally test it?

By: BerislavLopac

BerislavLopac — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Opera 8 fares exactly the same as Opera 7.

I wonder how did they make sure that the test is correct in the first place? With Safari? :)

By: charmedlover

charmedlover — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Actually Opera 8 has a few rendering differences, as I just found out.

And since Safari just passed that's impossible. Before it was pretty bad.

By: Tim G

Tim G — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

BerislavLopac asks, "I wonder how did they make sure that the test is correct in the first place?"

From the specifications.

I have to say I'm surprised to see the test passed this quickly. Of course, it is not comprehensive.

By: someonewhois

someonewhois — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Although I fully agree, IE7 will NEVER mention Acid, it’s with good reasons — they really don’t care about the geek world, and they shouldn’t.

That said, internally they may just be using the Acid test, and maybe, just maybe they’ll release it and shock the geek world. No, they won’t say “Haha we passed Acid2″, but internally they’ll be laughing at the surpriesd faces. I wouldn’t be surprised. :)

By: AlexW

AlexW — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Although I fully agree, IE7 will NEVER mention Acid, it's with good reasons -- they really don't care about the geek world, and they shouldn't.

That said, internally they may just be using the Acid test, and maybe, just maybe they'll release it and shock the geek world. No, they won't say "Haha we passed Acid2", but internally they'll be laughing at the surpriesd faces. I wouldn't be surprised. :)

I think they'd absolutely love to quietly debut IE7 with a pass on Acid2. Unfortunately, I think with the time constraints, it would be like tring to refit a DC10 for space travel -- just not practical.

I actually did do a screencap of Opera 8, but since it was pretty similar to the Opera 7.0 rendering, I decided that the Netscape 4.7 rendering was more entertaining.

I was a little surpised that O8 didn't get much closer than O7, but it seems the object tag used for the eyes gives most browsers the biggest headache.

By: pixelguru

pixelguru — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

I think the CSS from Acid2 is going to give me nightmares tonight. Yikes!

Congratz to the Safari team.