Lets start by explaining what is an Acid Test, its a small application that gives scores to browsers on web standards. Acid3 is the third in the series and is primarily testing specifications for “Web 2.0″ dynamic Web applications. Also there are some visual rendering tests, including web fonts etc. Enough of technical stuff, all we need to know is higher the score better it is….
So here are the scores for you -
- Firefox 3.5 = 93/100
- Google Chrome 3.0 = 100/100
- Safari 4.0 = 100/100
- Opera 9.2 = 47/100
- Internet Explorer 6.0 = 12/100
- Internet Explorer 7.0 = 13/100
- Internet Explorer 8.0 = 20/100
Despite the score, IE remains a very popular browser, much to the virtue of it being shipped with every copy of Windows. Every other browser needs to be obtained and installed. We sure do hope IE will improve even further in the coming future. As far as I can remember Firefox 2.8 used to score something around 63, now they have improved that and getting closer to 100. Opera’s score was a bit disappointing. Being the most criticized product of Google, Chrome still scored perfect 100 along with Safari as both of them use WebKit engine.
Chrome and Safari will to most users seem a faster browser, and it could prove that following the web standards do bring benefits in the overall browsing experience.
“live long and prosper”
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