It was recently announced that Safari (WebKit) passes Acid3. The gory, nerdy details are available for the interested.

It took seven months for Safari to pass Acid2 (in a gold release), and < a href=”years for the other browsers. IE 8 and Firefox 3 (both in beta) will be the first versions of those browsers to pass, putting the implementation timeline around the three year mark.

Both Safari and Opera passed Acid3 the same month it was released. This is nothing short of incredible.

What’s great about this is how everyone has worked together. It’s not code as poetry, it’s code as dialogue. The browser developers find bugs in the tests, which leads to better tests. The tests find bugs in the browsers, which leads to better browsers. They both expose flaws in the specifications. Everything gets fixed, or at least improved. Everybody wins, except for the people who refuse to play. I’m looking at you, IE.

In fact, one might wonder what those folks over at Mozilla are doing these days. Fixing leaks is important, but so is accurate rendering.

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