An Architect's View

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• 1 Phil // Sep 3, 2008 at 4:01 PM

  Webkit, which AIR uses, has passed since March. This is more about Apple producing a high quality rendering engine than anything to do with AIR itself, imo. http://webkit.org/blog/173/webkit-achieves-acid3-100100-in-public-build/

• 2 Sean Corfield // Sep 3, 2008 at 5:06 PM

  @Phil, yes, if you read Ted's post he makes it clear that WebKit is the star here - the "big news" is that AIR will rev to the latest WebKit soon so it too will pass ACID3.

• 3 sal // Sep 3, 2008 at 5:30 PM

  what's this webkit scoring 100 all about? Isn't webkit Safari's web engine? When I run the test in Safari I score a 72 as well...
  
  I must be confused?
  
  btw I'm on a Mactel...

• 4 Sean Corfield // Sep 3, 2008 at 7:25 PM

  @Sal, WebKit is updated separately from Safari. The current release of Safari (like the current release of AIR) is based on an earlier WebKit that did not get 100%.

• 5 Dave Phipps // Sep 4, 2008 at 4:27 AM

  IE8 Beta 2 scores a massive 20/100! Go Microsoft!
  
  I'm a bit sad that FF3 only scores 71/100 on my MacBook.
  
  Has anyone tried Opera?

• 6 Thijs Triemstra // Sep 4, 2008 at 12:13 PM

  webkit nightly build for osx scores 100, go get it at http://nightly.webkit.org/

• 7 Elliott // Sep 5, 2008 at 8:54 AM

  The Safari 4 Developer Preview which has been out for some time gets 100. I'm not sure if that's going to get pushed out with 10.5.5 though.
  
  It also has a cool feature to save a page to open as a stand alone "application". This allows you to run any page as a totally separate process without the browser UI chrome.
  
  http://news.worldofapple.com/archives/2008/06/10/apple-gives-developers-safari-4-preview/
  
  The Mozilla Gecko developers have said repeatedly that they think the Acid tests are essentially worthless and that they'd rather spend their time working on other things. Without getting into that I just thought I'd share why that browser hasn't and probably won't get 100 for a long while.
  
  It is pretty amazing that Safari, which has barely been around 5 years, has taken the market by storm showing up in AIR, Android, phones and probably other internal projects.

• 8 Bash // Sep 5, 2008 at 1:32 PM

  @Elliott,
  
  Safari is not in AIR or Android. Webkit is the browser used. Safari is based on webkit. Webkit has been around longer than Safari.

• 9 Elliott // Sep 5, 2008 at 9:41 PM

  @Bash
  
  Woops, that's a brain fart on my part. s/Safari,/Webkit,/
  
  I'm well aware of the difference as I've done a number of bug reports and regression testing for the project. ;)
  
  Strictly speaking Webkit isn't a browser either. It's a rendering engine that could be used to build browsers or any number of things. For instance Adium uses it for message display and easy theming.

• 10 Sean Corfield // Sep 5, 2008 at 9:46 PM

  @Bash, @Elliott, and of course the confusion is compounded by the fact that you can d/l and install a nightly build of WebKit and it looks just like Safari, even down to the basic icon. I'm running WebKit nightly builds as my default browser on OS X (and Chrome on WinXP).

• 11 flash tekkie // Sep 29, 2008 at 4:20 AM

  Because different builds of WebKit are being used, the Acid3 results may differ.
  
  WebKit passed Acid3 fully for the first time last week. So it's 100 subtests of 100 passed now.
  
  <a href="http://tekkie.flashbit.net/browsers/first-browser-to-pass-acid3-web-standards-test#opera-960-beta-acid3-result">Opera 9.60 Beta scored 85</a>.
  

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