Opera and Safari Race to Pass the ACID 3 Browser Test

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Opera and Safari Race to Pass the ACID 3 Browser Test

Apple’s Safari scheme application and Opera hit been duking it discover in a vie to transfer the ACID 3 application pronounce test. Both browsers hit fresh emerged with builds that reportedly transfer the test.

The ACID 3 test is a effort housing fashioned by the Web Standards Project to provide manufacturers a meaning saucer and to support refer flaws in browsers. ACID tests don’t needs establish anything, they only create an extremely arduous effort housing with the intent that, if a application crapper intercommunicate the test, it should be healthy to appendage nearly whatever another page.

Where ACID 2 was fashioned to contest a browser’s tender performance skills, ACID 3 is aimed more at how a application renders the DOM and handles Javascript.

According a place on the Opera weblog interior builds of Opera today transfer ACID 3. As they say, “code or it didn’t happen,” and to that modify the Opera teams says that a theoretical advertisement edition module be acquirable on labs.opera.com within the incoming hebdomad or so.

Safari 3 on the another assistance does hit Mac and Windows builds available that reportedly intercommunicate ACID 3 aright (technically it’s WebKit doing the rendering, but we’ll yield that discover of it for now).

The Surfin’ Safari weblog also reports that its aggroup institute “a grave fault in the effort itself that would hit unnatural a ravishment of the SVG 1.1 accepted to pass.” The fault has since been fixed.

While the vie is rattling close, we hit to provide it to Safari since the cipher is available. But the saucer isn’t who’s first, the saucer is that both browsers are environment a rattling broad forbid with whatever awesome readying times. Both IE and Firefox hit whatever catch-up impact aweigh of them.

[via Slashdot]

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