WebKit becomes the first engine to really pass Acid3 test

13th October 2008

Maciej Stachowiak from the WebKit development team has announced that this Open Source-engine has become the first to fully pass the Acid3 test.
Acid3 is a test page, created by the Web Standards Project, which checks the Web-pages rendering engine for compliance to standards including (besides HTML and CSS) DOM and JavaScript.
In March this year, WebKit, the base of Apple Safari, and Presto (Opera) showed 100% result in test builds of the browser. But, in addition to the results showed, the test requires from the browser to display a special page with accuracy to pixels (using the default settings). As it became known now, the test build of WebKit successfully passed the last test, which, according to the developer, became possible due to â€œrecent improvements in JavaScript, DOM and the renderingâ€.
Official versions of browsers popular with ordinary users have not yet reached any close results: Safari 3.1.2 - 75%; Firefox 3.0.2 - 71%, Opera 9.52 - 84%; Internet Explorer 7 - 14 %.