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.