2008 September | Apramana

So finally I have updated the About page. Since I left the Aranxa last week thinking of updating this page but finally today got a time to do it.

Chamara

My name is Chamara Peiris, UI Lead/Information Architect living in Panadura, Sri Lanka, a small beautiful island in the Indian ocean. My blog is an online source for topics ranging from XHTML/CSS to web technologies to news relates to Sri Lanka.

I began my career in 2001 as a Trainee Web Developer. The first 2 years were mainly filled with UI Work with some more development work.

From 2003 onward, designing websites and user interfaces was my main focus.

In 2004 I’ve discovered Web Standards after seeing the CSS Zen Garden. Since then I’m actively promoting the benefits of Web Standards through my blog and trying to popular and implementing web standards in Sri Lanka.

Minlo Technologies

In 2006 I’ve co-founded Minlo Technologies together with Damitha Wickramasinghe. I’m the CTO of Minlo Group. We have been working with some local clients as well as with couple of foreign collaborations.

My vision is to make the web better WEB for ALL.

Today we would like to announce that WebKit is the first browser engine to fully pass Acid3. A while back, we posted that we scored 100/100 and matched the reference rendering. Now, thanks to recent speedups in JavaScript, DOM and rendering, we have passed the third condition, smooth animation on reference hardware.

Here is a screenshot of a successful run:

Safari Acid3 Test

Here is the timing reference dialog you get by clicking on the â€œAâ€ in Acid3 that confirms we pass the smooth animation condition on a 2.4GHz MacBook Pro:

Acid3 test results

To try it for yourself, grab a nightly. Keep in mind that on slower machines, the timing may not be perfect, and you need to do a cached run of the test (load it once, close window, open new window, load it again) to avoid delays from the network.