Airbus A380 brake test
(Monday, September 22nd, 2008)
This is difficult to stop a big chunk of a plane like the Airbus A380. Let’s see what happens to brakes when tested at maximum braking stress.
Acid3 test – 100% score for Safari and Opera
(Tuesday, April 8th, 2008)
The age-old Acid3 test is a small (but challenging) test of the compatibility of web browsers. Very few of them are able to even display something remotely similar to the expected result. But things changed a lot recently with a few important news:
- On March 26, Opera was announced to be the very first browser to succeed to obtain a 100/100 or 100% test score.
- Safari 3.1 is the first non-beta release of Safari for Windows (usually Safari is available on Mac OsX). While it is still unfinished, it reached the imposing 100% score only a few days after Opera.
- Internet Explorer 8 which is still in closed beta has been said to be able to pass the test, then not to, then again. It seems that Microsoft has the code for a 100% score but feels it should not be the default operation of its future browser.
Reference: The Acid3 test page.
