Acid2 Timeline
November 1st, 2005 by Kelson. Posted in Apple, Web Design and tagged for Acid2, browser, safari, Web- April 13, 2005: Acid2 test announced by WaSP.
- April 27, 2005: Internal builds of Safari pass it.
- May 22, 2005: Public beta of iCab passes (but no one else notices for a week).
- June 5, 2005: Development builds of Konqueror pass.
- October 31, 2005: Safari 2.0.2 becomes the first non-beta web browser to pass the Acid2 test.
- Update: November 29, 2005: Konqueror 3.5 is the second released browser to pass.
- Update: March 10, 2006: Development builds of Opera pass.
- Update: June 20, 2006: Opera 9 passes
- Update: December 9, 2006: Development builds of Firefox 3 pass
- Update: December 19, 2007: Development builds of Internet Explorer 8 pass
So who’s next? Well, Opera 9 beta 1 is very close—there’s a pair of red squares that should be black, but that’s it. Neither IE7 nor Firefox 1.5 will have much in the way of Acid2-related fixes, though the trunk builds of Firefox show improvement, so 2.0 has a chance 3.0 might make it will pass (since 2.0 will use the same engine as 1.5).
3 Responses to “Acid2 Timeline”
By hugin on Nov 4, 2005
Hey! iCab 3.0b does a great job, but i does NOT pass the test. Close doesn’t count in this test.
By thomas on Nov 12, 2005
iCab 3.0b *does* pass the test. Why do you think it does not?
By hugin on Nov 13, 2005
Well, obviously the white line was related to a prefs bug. The iCab 3.0 beta actually do pass the test. My bad.