Apple has released a Safari 3.1 (http://www.apple.com/safari/download/) today. Get it from Software Update.

It still fails the Acid 3 test (http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid3/). Funny enough the latest Safari WebKit (http://webkit.org/) (getting the latest builds with NightShift (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/27294)) almost passes the test. Try it out for yourself.

I tried this Acid 3 test with my "old" Safari (still version 3.0.4) and it also failed. So did IE for Mac (version 5.2.3) and Firefox (version 2).

So I don't think any Mac browser will pass it. Or?

So I don't think any Mac browser will pass it. Or?

I don't think any browser can fully pass it yet. However I may be wrong but this blog (http://www.matthewhutton.com/acid3.html) is proving me right.

Cool!..... Whats different??

Changes under the hood to clean the code and pass the Acid 3 test.

ibook G4
V 10.4.11
PPC 1.33
1GB DDR

any body having trouble with watching media (youtube, beatport, videos etc etc) i've just d/l the 3.1 update and from then i've not been able to watch .wmv .mp3 and so on.

i've updated my flash plugin and still not joy..

Nope. On 10.5.2 it is a clean as butter. Have you cleaned your system cache and ran maintenance on that Mac? You can get a cleaning program for 10.4 from either Yasu (http://jimmitchell.org/projects/yasu/) or Onyx (http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html). Run all the routines from either program (it will take the machine a little longer to re-create the cache files on startup) and restart twice after it is done cleaning.

Plus older QuickTime plugins can cause havoc with web videos. Keep and eye out for old Quicktime plugins in either /Library/QuickTime/ or /Users/YourUsersName/Library/Quicktime/.

To get back on topic.

Looks like Webkit (http://webkit.org/) nows gets a 96/100 on the Acid 3 test (http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid3/). Looks like by WWDC well will see a fully standardized Safari release.

Well WebKit (http://webkit.org/blog/) sure works fast. They now have a perfect 100/100 on the Acid 3 (http://acid3.acidtests.org/) test! WebKit is the first browser to do so. So It looks like we will be seeing a new Safari update sooner than later.