Webkit, Apple’s open source engine for Safari and many other browsers, has recently found a bug in the ACID3 test.  ACID3 is the newest web standards test certified in part by the W3.  After the bug was fixed in the ACID3 test, Webkit suddenly got a perfect score of 100/100.  When I retried Firefox/Gekko, I was kind of surprised that the score actually went down one point to 67/100 (Last time I tested it, it had a 68/100).  Opera’s newest engine, then scored a 100/100 as well along with Webkit.  Although this version of Opera is not released yet, and should be in a week or so.

It seems to me that Apple is finely becoming a worthy competitor to IE, Firefox, and Opera.  At this point Mozilla has a lot of work to do to catch up,  Webkit is still the only publicly released engine with HTML5.  As with IE, it’s no competition at this point, it’s most important feature is updating Windows for now.

I have just tested the newest build of WebKit from February 22. I was astounded by the score I got in ACID3. I tested Safari 3.1 a few weeks ago and got a 66 score, with Firefox at 60. Now with the latest build of WebKit, it jumped from 66 to a whopping 87!

If anyone knows about the ACID tests, you’d know 87/100 is pretty darn good, and at this point from my testing that’s the best score so far, with second place at 67/100 (the latest Firefox build).

Internet Explorer is still at the lowest with only 12/100.

Here’s the ACID3 link.