Safari 3 does a nice job with Acid2 test

This morning I was curious to see how Safari 3 fared when displaying the Acid2 web standards test.

I tried it out, and it displayed the smiley face just the way it was supposed to do it.

I tried the test with the latest version of Firefox (2.0.0.11) and the smiley face did not display correctly.

It was kind of surprising.  I was expecting this version of Safari to pass the test, yes.

I had sort of presumed all along that Firefox would get there before Safari, though.  Nope.

Looks like Safari 3 won the race among the big three to pass the test with the production web browser.

Disappointing, but there is a silver lining.

Since Safari three now runs on MS-Windows in addition to Mac OS X, an extremely high percentage of desktop computers do have access to a compliant browser.

Web Development for iPhone: pretty standard affair

When the iPhone came out, developers wanted to know how they would program it.

Steve Jobs told them: web standards.

Someone posted a helpful entry in their blog that showed the user-agent string that the iPhone sends to web servers to identify its browser.

The blog post also shows how to tune the CSS and Javascript that go along with your XHTML web pages in order to make them extra-friendly to the Apple iPhone that millions of people already own.

So if you are a web developer, you might want to take a gander at Web Development for the iPhone. Then you can make millions of people a little extra happy with your site. Might make your boss a little extra happy with you!

Just imagine them saying, "I heard our site works really well with that Apple iPhone and the new iPod! Did you do anything special for that?" - and being able to say, "Yeah, but not much really - it was very easy."