That's encouraging, but the bar keeps being raised. The Web Standards Project released Acid3 on March 3. Acid3 rates browsers' capabilities with ECMAScript (JavaScript) and the Document Object Model (DOM), which are important for Web-based applications. As of March 26, WebKit (Safari's rendering engine) achieved 100 on Acid3 for a public build, and Opera reports scoring 100 on an internal build. While Acid tests don't confirm that browsers are fully standards compliant, they were created to verify the features that Web developers consider most important.
Mike Lee is an independent IT consultant and software developer and an InformationWeek contributor.
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