[UPHPU] WebKit hits 98/100 on Acid3

[MilesTogoe]

Scott Hill wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Richard K Miller <richardkmiller at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Mar 26, 2008, at 7:20 PM, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
>>     
>>> On 26 Mar 2008, at 19:21, Kevin Carter wrote:
>>>
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>> http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2008/03/26/opera-and-the-acid3-test
>>     
>>> Excellent. Only problem is that Opera's market share is even less
>>> than Safari's.
>>>       
>> Acids and [user] bases are opposites.
>>
>>     
>
> OK.  For those of us who are wondering what everyone in this thread is
> talking about (yes, I realize its probably just me):
>
> What the heck is acid3 or "acids"?
>
> Also, it seems that WebKit is part of the Safari browser, kind of.  Their
> web site mentions that it is not a browser and can be embedded somewhere.
> If I downloaded it today, how could it be useful to me?  Or, what could I
> use it for?
>   

Acid 3 is an extensive test for compliance to W3C standards  (ie does it 
handle a CSS command correctly, does it render SVG correctly).

The huge advantage to W3C standards is that you can write your code 
using the standards and count on the browsers rendering it correctly - 
cross browser, cross-platform.  Thus, no more "if safari, if opera, if 
IE ....." hacks (unless of course you wanted to use an extra feature 
solely to that browser like in an embedded device).    Thus, you could 
design a web page on your Mac, and know it will work okay in an office 
running Fedora and Windows running Firefox or Opera (and maybe IE8 if 
they finally ever decide to be W3C compliant). 

The latest Acid3 numbers I've seen is Opera and Safari at 98-100%,  
Firefox 3 (still in beta) at around 70-75%), I think Firefox 2 is around 
40% and IE 7 at about 14%.