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Mac OSX Tips: Safari 4 beta scores 100/100 on acid3 mactip has a great article reviewing Safari 4 and the Acid3 test. You will recall that we covered Acid3 here in the More Mac blog.

Oh, boy! Camino did NOT do well on Acid3! Here is the version installed on my Mac: 53/100 is the worst score yet in my testing. OK, enough of the Acid3 testing. What is the point? Many web site designers are adopting JavaScript, CSS and other so-called Web 2.0 standards in development of websites. The Acid3 test shows how well a browser performs with these standards. Wikipedia has an excellent article explaining this test as well as test results using various web browsers.

Here is the Opera test.  Performed the best so far.  Interesting.  Any thoughts anyone?

I did an Acid3 test with a few browsers and these are the results I got.  For those unfamiliar, as I understand it, Acid3 is a test to see how compliant a browser is with current standards with the W3C . Browser # 1: Chrome by Google.  Running under Windows Vista Home on my Mac in VMWare. 79/100 Not bad for a new browser.  I'll be curious to see what the Mac version will do when it comes out. Browser #2: Firefox v.3.0.1 Mac OS X 10.5.4 71/100 Not as good as Chrome, but I have a PILE of extensions on Firefox. Browser #3: Safari 3.1.2 Mac OS X 10.5.4 75/100 Better than Firefox but still lower than Chrome. My take is overall they seem to perform about the same but I'll stick with Safari for now.  I use Firefox for much of my web browsing, but Safari is fast becoming a close second. Someday, maybe I'll test Opera too. Cheers!