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Microsoft Complains That WebKit Breaks Web Standards
Billly Gates writes "In a bizarre, yet funny and ironic move, Microsoft warned web developers that using WebKit stagnates open standards and innovation on the Web. According to the call to action in its Windows Phone Developer Blog, Microsoft is especially concerned about the mobile market, where many mobile sites only work with Android or iOS with WebKit-specific extensions. Their examples include W3C code such as radius-border, which is being written as -WebKit-radius-border instead on websites. In the mobile market WebKit has a 90% marketshare, while website masters feel it is not worth the development effort to test against browsers such as IE. Microsoft's solution to the problem of course is to use IE 10 for standard compliance and not use the proprietary (yet open source) WebKit."
How does IE10 do with the acid tests? Never mind - I'll look for myself . . . .
This link seems to be a little dated, with FF3 and IE8:
http://devseo.co.uk/blog/view/the-acid-3-test-the-latest-browser-results
Another dated comparison:
http://cybernetnews.com/browser-comparison-internet-explorer-firefox-chrome-safari-opera/
Some dude on Youtube claims that IE10 passes with a score of 100 - I'd rather see a review from a reputable source. The video shows him RELOADING a page with the score of 100 - that's not exactly the way to run the test.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgVD7fdyR4o
Wikipedia seems to believe that IE10 passes the acid test:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3#Internet_Explorer_-_4th_time
Maybe it does - but it was a long time coming!!
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