Mobile Safari Gets High Marks for Standards Support

acid2.png In case you missed Pete’s snippet from yesterday, the iPhone’s Mobile Safari web browser looks very capable of bringing the full web on to the iPhone, outranking some popular desktop browsers in critical standards support testing.

In tests devised by the Web Standards Project to help developers ensure their work can reach as wide an audience as possible, Mobile Safari blew IE7 out of the water on compliance with support for CSS and even scored higher than Firefox 3 in testing for components vital to “Web 2.0″ functionality.

Looks like those faster 3G download speeds could be worth something after all.

Via Paul Beesley

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  • Kula bácsi

    Download speed has nothing to do with standard compliance.

  • http://www.snubcommunications.com Craig Grannell

    I suspect he meant something as in having a browser that will be able to render stuff properly and also faster.

  • http://cultofmac.com Lonnie Lazar

    Yes, the point is, what good is download speed if the browser you’re downloading to doesn’t render the page well?