A good Acid3 score means that a web browser is highly compliant with web standards and it appears that the recently updated webOS 1.4 does very well in this area. From pre central- “There is this test call the Acid3 Test, and it is designed to test a web browser’s compliance with web standards, with an emphasis placed on Document Object Model and JavaScript. For an operating system based on web standards, you might think that webOS would have been scoring fairly highly with the test from day one. Not so, it would seem. In the early days of webOS, the browser scored a pitiful 1/100. With the update to webOS 1.3.1, the browser scored a 73/100 – better, but still not great.
Now, with webOS 1.4 out and about, the browser’s standards compliance has taken another step forward, scoring a 92/100. Obviously, that’s a great step forward as far as the browser is concerned, and we have been receiving reports of better performance and rendering on all manner of sites as a result…”
I find the browser performance much better in webOS 1.4 but my Yahoo Mail does not work well. Before with 1.3.5, I could see a graphic interface and now I get only a text page “WAP-like”. With Hotmail 3his does not happen.
Wow, that’s great! And what’s the “real life use” test score?