CodeDread Blog » acid3 http://www.codedread.com/blog Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:30:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Webkit Nightly: Not Smiling http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2008/03/26/webkit-nightly-not-smiling/ http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2008/03/26/webkit-nightly-not-smiling/#comments Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:08:05 +0000 Jeff http://blog.codedread.com/archives/2008/03/26/webkit-nightly-not-smiling/ After the announcement that the Apple developers have turned on their SMIL support in order to pass Acid3 test, I was excited enough to download the MacOS nightly and run through the SVG animation test suite. I was pretty disappointed.

Out of 58 tests involving animation, WebKit r31344 fails 54, gets 3 of the tests partially right and only gets 1 test to completely pass. To put this into ‘acid’ terms, this means that WebKit r31344 gets a score of 5/116 when it comes to SVG animation support (as compared to Opera 9.5′s 110/116). See my top-secret scoring mechanism here.

My concern at this point is that releasing such a nonconforming SMIL implementation into the wild will just frustrate authors and users. But I suppose there isn’t much SMIL out there at the moment. Here’s one data point, at least: My menus no longer animate properly in WebKit r31344, producing ‘fluttering’ icons… Is there a way I can turn off WebKit’s native SMIL when visiting my website? Does anyone know of any other sites out there using SMIL in their UI?

Anyway, I’m very much looking forward to future Webkit releases that will improve upon the SMIL implementation – and please release the build for Windows too. And I would be remiss if I didn’t congratulate the WebKit team for releasing a downloadable application that shows 100/100 on Acid3. Hopefully this post is just a little bit of cold water in the face to those fans thinking that WebKit is somehow “perfect” :)

]]> http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2008/03/26/webkit-nightly-not-smiling/feed/ 18 Acid3: Neck-and-Neck http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2008/03/26/acid3-neck-and-neck/ http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2008/03/26/acid3-neck-and-neck/#comments Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:52:22 +0000 Jeff http://blog.codedread.com/archives/2008/03/26/acid3-neck-and-neck/ WebKit and Opera are really scrambling to be the first browser to fully pass Acid 3. First, Opera claimed they were at 100/100 in a private build, then Ian corrected the test (based on feedback from Apple developers), presumably knocking Opera back to 99/100. And just now, the WebKit guys have turned on SVG Animation (SMIL) in their nightly builds, putting them also at 99/100. This was a surprise to me, since I had heard that their SMIL implementation was not ready for prime-time, so to speak. Oh well, this is great – now we have a second browser implementing SMIL natively and we can truly start pushing for interoperable solutions.

What does it mean for Apple and Opera fans? Probably a lot. What does it mean for web standardistas? Apple and Opera care (more?). What does this all actually mean for web developers at the moment? Not a single thing. Oh well, time to tally up my own similarly-meaningless SVG support score…

[Update 10:25 PM CST: Apple did it. They are the first to achieve 100/100 in Acid3 with a publicly downloadable browser (even if it is only for MacOS)]

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