Filed under: Software Engineering | Tags: Browser, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Web Development, Web-standards
Got a little time over and nothing to do so I thought I should get back to the browser issue. Time for a little comparison, as I’m on a mac atm I didn’t bother getting IE, so the comparison is between Opera, Safari and Firefox. So what is the comparison about? How well they follow the standards, and to do that I used the acid test suite. And here are my findings:
Opera (Presto)
I used the latest version I could find, that is 9.51 build 4877 this is how it scored
Acid 1:
Pass
Acid 2:
Pass
Acid 3:
Fail (83/100)
Comment: I know that there are Opera builds for Linux and Windows that passes the acid 3 test but this test was done on OS X. However a score of 83 is good.
Safari (WebKit)
Also the latest version I could find, which is Version 4 Developer Preview (5526.11.2)
Acid 1:
Pass
Acid 2:
Pass
Acid 3:
Fail (97/100)
Comment: Also here there are builds of Safari that passes acid 3, but apparently not this one even though it’s really close. Another comment that isn’t really related to the test, but I found this build a little bit flaky as I managed to crash it twice since yesterday.
Firefox (Gecko)
Same here, the latest version, Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1pre) Gecko/2008062004 GranParadiso/3.0.1pre
Acid 1:
Pass
Acid 2:
Pass
Acid 3:
Fail (70/100)
Comment: This is very interesting that the latest version I could find (I know there a pre-alpha 3.1 but I couldn’t locate it) performs worse than the stable version (Firefox 3 scored 71/100).
So to sum it up, no browser is there yet when I comes to complete support for web-standards when using OS X. Safari and Opera are getting there, and they’ve shown that they can do it. What this means for the ordinary user, probably nothing for now. But it’s really good that they, the makers of the browsers, are striving to standardize the web to make it easier for everybody.
Filed under: Rifotech.se, Software Engineering, Web Development | Tags: Acid tests, Browser, Layout Engine, Rifotech.se, Software Engineering, Standards, Web Development
Why do they have to interpret everything in there own way?
Yeah, I know why but it’s really annoying when you are trying to develop a site, as most of you webdevelopers know, you have to style the site for almost every browser. Though things are starting to look better as web browser evolve. But none of the public builds of the most common browsers (layout engines, really) follows the standard, and most of the development builds are not there yet. And even when the public builds will, if that ever happens , follow the standard some people will use old versions that break the standard.
However that was not the problem for me as I was doing stuff that wasn’t compliant with the standards, since the current standards didn’t cower that. I managed to keep it working with the Trident (Internet Explorer), the GECKO (Firefox) and WebKit (Safari) but for the others fixing it just took to much time. So what could I do, keep the site up, most of the users would be able to use it anyway, spending the entire weekend working on a patch to make it work for the current versions of all browsers or take it down and re-design it to make it adhere to the standars, I chose the last alternative. So that’s why rifotech.se will be down for a while. But trust me it’ll be worth waiting since the new version will be better, more beautiful and give you a lot more.
