Comments on: Opera and Safari Pass Acid3 Test

By: Raj

Raj — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:36:56 +0000

I agree with Safar that it passes the test. But for opera i doubt. Opera is out of our testing standards because of uncertain behaviour to normal scripts and layouts….

By: itpastorn

itpastorn — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:00:01 +0000

@Hmm: Correct!

The arstechnica article is flawed (as well as many other articles from IT-magazines). It claims that Webkit and Opera actually passes the test. They do not – yet. Neither do they claim to.

They get the “score” and the rendering parts right, but they fail the “smoothness” criteria. Why won’t people (=IT journalists) cite more authoritative sources – and cite them correctly? Read what Hixie says, read Opera’s and Webkit’s own announcements. IT mags are secondary sources – and quite often get things wrong.

By: sauravgr8

sauravgr8 — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:44:49 +0000

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By: dougoftheabaci

dougoftheabaci — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:21:53 +0000

I’m not sure there’s a difference. I could be wrong however. All I know is that both Opera and WebKit have scored 100/100 on the Acid3 test. I think rending is only one specific part of the test but again I could be mistaken.

Arstechnica article:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/03/27/team-webkit-squeaks-past-team-opera-in-race-to-pass-acid-3

By: Hmm

Hmm — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:04:34 +0000

They passed the rendering part of the Acid3 Browser Test, not the complete test right?

By: dougoftheabaci

dougoftheabaci — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:06:47 +0000

Yeah, that last one was from me again. I’m starting to wonder if there is a Safari issue and logging in when posting…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:04:04 +0000

This isn’t a joke, just grab the latest versions. This isn’t even that new of news. It was posted on Engadget and Arstechnica a few days ago.

If memory serves the reason WebKit makes no. 1 (which it did with Acid2 as well) is because they found an error in the Acid3 test. Opera had hit 100/100 but after the Acid3 team fixed the error the guys at WebKit found they didn’t make the cut and WebKit was ready to test and they got it. Also, the original success story was only an internal build, not public.

All that matters is that it’s two of the bigger browsers that now have 100% standards compatibility with Firefox coming up fast. Now if only we could get IE to have anything but a highly pathetic showing we’d be set. Maybe by the time IE8 goes public it’ll actually get over 20/100 on Acid3.

By: ParkinT

ParkinT — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:37:50 +0000

The joke would be too obvious if the headline was, “Internet Explorer passed Acid3″

By: AndrewCharron

AndrewCharron — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:26:47 +0000

They did pass, this doesnt look like an april fools post to me.

By: banago

banago — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:25:09 +0000

What is next …