Google Chrome for a long time was seen as the web browser that was pushing web standards the most. It was faster in terms of JavaScript performance than any other browser on the market, supported web standards that others did not, and always scored highest in the HTML5 Test.

Since last year, Mozilla started to improve Firefox in many ways closing the gap between the browser and Google Chrome in many regards.  It still has not beat Chrome in some benchmarks or the HTML5 Test, but Firefox has  improved significantly in that time. In some ways, it passed by Chrome and there are no signs that Mozilla will slow down anytime soon.

MathML, the Mathematical Markup Language, before. Its main aim is to provide mathematicians with the means to use math expressions on the Internet.A test has been created to test a browser’s MathML support. It works similar to the popular Acid3 test which tests a web browser’s web standard support.

Elements are drawn on the screen and a smiley face is displayed if the web browser supports all the web technologies used to draw it. The first of the major web browsers to do is the latest Nightly version of the Firefox web browser. Take a look at the screenshot below to see how it should look like.

Other browsers display all kinds of errors messages at the time of writing, below is Google Chrome Canary’s rendering of the page:

According to Frédéric Wang, the company removed features that it did not plan on supporting in short term from the browser after they have forked WebKit and decided to work on Blink.