Safari 2 becomes the first browser to pass Acid2

[gsnedders]

Safari 2 (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/safari/) has become (http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=258586) the first browser to pass (http://webstandards.org/act/acid2/reference.html) the Acid2 Browser Test (http://webstandards.org/act/acid2/)


Enough links? :D

[jkd]

Safari 2 fails miserably at it, actually. Dave Hyatt's local copy passes it, yes. But that was over a week ago, and it has not been released. When you correct rendering issues like these, you need to thoroughly test it and make sure it doesn't break most "standards-compliant sites" that may have assumed another commonly accepted rendering. In which case, it needs to move the old code into quirks mode.

Safari will probably be the first browser which releases a version which passes Acid2, but be careful how you phrase it. There is still no browser available which passes it.

[gsnedders]

Bad assumption on my part, I presumed that if one of the developer builds passed, the golden master would.

[Grant Palin]

It would be nice if the Internet Explorer team do some work towards this...It makes sense that they would if they happen to be working on a new version of IE, and supposedly are in the process of fixing bugs in their rendering engine.

We can only hope...

[JamieR]

Yeah well....I'd be happy when I actually see IE fully supporting what its rivals can :rolleyes: When that will be I don't know.

[evo]

Works fine here on Firefox 1.0.3

[gsnedders]

Firefox fails terribly here...
http://geoffers.dotgeek.org/ffacid2.jpg

[JamieR]

so it does :mad:

What does the acid test actually prove? I know it is testing what a browser supports, but if is only one supposed browser that fully complies with it, what is the point of having it?

[Grant Palin]

I believe that the test is to help browser writers to ensure that their browsers correctly render various CSS elements. Safari just happened to be the first one to reach that point (I know that it's not available yet, but still). I would hope that other browser vendors (hint hint Internet Explorer team, but also Mozilla and Opera) take the same initiative.

Ahhhh, longing for the day when all browsers render the same HTML and CSS in the same way...ought to make our jobs easier!

[jkd]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289480

Mozillians are working on it.