Acid3 Test

Opera and WebKit successfully pass the Acid3 test with 100/100 scores. That is something Firefox has been unable to reach as yet. This news comes as a shock to the community that supports and swears by open source software. Anyhow, we’ll soon see the two extremely standards compliant browsers: Apple’s WebKit based Safari and Opera web browsers.

 

The biggest shocker is not that the engines have beaten Firefox but that such standards compliance is nowhere to be seen on Linux as yet. I don’t think Mozilla is going to sit quite though. At least, I hope not.

Safari 3.0.1 for Windows fixes various issues

As you can see on the left, Apple released an update to it’s Safari browser through the Apple Software Update tool.

CVE-ID: CVE-2007-3186
Impact: Visiting a malicious website may lead to arbitrary code execution.
Description: A command injection vulnerability exists in the Windows version of Safari 3 Public Beta. By enticing a user to visit a maliciously crafted web page, an attacker can trigger the issue which may lead to arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue by performing additional processing and validation of URLs. This does not pose a security issue on Mac OS X systems, but could lead to an unexpected termination of the Safari browser.

Browser Javascript Rendering Wars

When Apple released Safari 3 for Windows, it claimed it was faster than any other browser in every way. One of the tests they indicated was the JavaScript Rendering comparison.

In their test, Safari was clearly better than IE7, Firefox 2 and Opera.

They conducted the test using I-Bench. I wanted to confirm what they said before I make any statement and the fastest way was to use a script anyone can use online. I conducted the tests between the 3 browsers: Safari, Firefox 2 and Windows Internet Explorer 7.

The results are very clear and have been captured in the screenshot on the left which you may click to enlarge.  The simple result is Safari is the clear winner.