Webkit and Opera mastered the Acid 3 test
Browser March 30th, 2008Congratulations to Opera Dektop Team at Opera Software and to the Webkit team at Apple for successfully mastering the Acid 3 test.
While Opera Software technically won the race, Apple released nightly builds for everyone to run the test themselves. Anyway, I do not care about which rendering engine actually was the first to pass the test. I am just amazed by the effort both teams invested to meet demands of the test and so get their browsers closer to the web standards.
Also the agility of the browser vendors is impressive: it only took 15 days for the first rendering engine (Webkit) to pass the Acid 2 test and 23 days to pass the Acid 3 test.
Of course it will take longer to release the next stable browser version which benefits from the engine development (the first official Safari update came have a year after Webkit passed the test), but we can be sure that future browsers will have more standard support than ever.
