Acid3 is a series of tests for web browsers that I’ve mentioned several times before. The Safari team has been working relentlessly at achieving a perfect 100/100 score for the suite of tests. Last night, Safari reached it. It’s the perfect browser. No more work is needed. Not really, but it’s clear that Safari’s team is ready to take on any challenges the web standards community wants to throw at it.
While Safari has reached that mystical ratio, Opera got there first. Don’t expect to go to that browser’s website and download a copy of the compatible version because it’s not available. Could I get all conspiracy theory and wonder if it’s really true with no way to independently verify?
Sure. The truth is though that Safari is the first publicly released browser to achieve the goal. You can download it now. Opera, they say the next week or so. Go Safari.
It was my understanding that Opera passed but did not recognize a fault in the test itself (which the webkit team found). I may be wrong. http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1206578003&count=1
Even Firefox is better than Safari.
What else is better than Safari? Just asking.
Personally I've found this latest WebKit twice as fast as the last and still faster and more Mac-like than Gecko (as in the engine, not the frameworks like Cocoa/Carbon the browsers are made with).