First browser to pass Acid3 web standards test
Posted on 29th September 2008 in Browsers | 5 Comments »
On Friday WebKit team announced their open source browser engine entirely passes Acid3 test by Web Standards Project.
Acid3 is a test page that checks how well a web browser follows certain web standards, especially relating to the Document Object Model (DOM) and JavaScript.
Acid3 compliance means passing all 100 subtests which form into 6 groups:
- DOM Traversal, DOM Range, HTTP
- DOM2 Core and DOM2 Events
- DOM2 Views, DOM2 Style, CSS 3 selectors and Media Queries
- Behavior of HTML tables and forms when manipulated by script and DOM2 HTML
- Tests from the Acid3 Competition (SVG, HTML, SMIL, Unicode, etc.)
- ECMAScript
In respect to the above, the test procedure is illustrated by the coloured rectangles:
- 1-5 subtests passed: Black rectangle.
- 6-10 subtests passed: Grey rectangle.
- 11-15 subtests passed: Silver rectangle.
- All 16 subtests passed: Coloured rectangle (red, orange, yellow, lime, blue, purple – for each of the six rectangles, respectively).
For the latest WebKit nightly, the test completes as following:
Other pioneering browser engines, namely Gecko and Opera, are a bit behind on this with around 90% of the test passed. The latest Opera 9.60 Beta scores 85 of 100:
News comes as in a sequence of recent developments from WebKit most interesting of which have added a lot of new CSS3. See the articles and test cases in flash tekkie’s WebKit category.
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Yayaay! lets have a party man.
(Any more useless stuff you know?)
As I’ve discussed it lately with many, I’ll put it simple for you as well.
Acid3, similarly to Acid2 test, plays a very big role in browser rendering. As the tests are put together in respect to open standards, passing it is of most importance, especially for the developers.
In addition, as WebKit passed Acid3 fully for the first time last week, it was preceded by a sequence of very important developments, e.g. enhanced JavaScript and CSS3 support. These can’t be considered meaningless.
To name a few:
For the comparison Internet Explorer 8 is yet to pass Acid2 and as we all know, IE is not CSS 2.1 compliant nor is there any hope for CSS3 support. So the Acid test very much reflects the capabilities of the particular platform.
Most of Opera’s efforts towards Acid 3 have gone into Opera 10. There’s the build of WinGOGI with 100/100 support around, but for mainstream support it might be a while before 10 is out.
Yes, I’m aware of Opera’s efforts towards standards compliance. Opera was also the 2nd browser to pass Acid2 (2 years ahead of Mozilla!) and as things are looking at the moment, it’s going to be so for Acid3 as well.
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