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Firefox and Opera Fail the Acid2 Test
naylor83 writes "Four weeks ago, Opera's CTO Håkan Lie put forward the Acid2 challenge to the IE developers at Microsoft. The Web Standards Project has now silently published the promised browser test. Somewhat surprisingly, both Opera and Firefox fail to correctly render the test page. Obviously though, they're no where near as lousy as Internet Explorer. More screenshots are available at my blog, as well as at other people's."
"id you look at the FF rendering and the IE rendering? Neither is perfect, but the IE rendering is absolutely horrid."
When dealing with stuff like this, broken is broken. There's no degree of broken. It's not like Opera and FireFox can claim "well, when we break, there's only 25% degradation." In other words, just because the face was a little more legible in Opera or FireFox than IE, doesn't mean that in the real world, they'll at least be readable where IE absolutely will not.
Parent poster was right, that was anti-MS FUD. If FireFox was more disappointing, it wouldn't ahve been mentioned at all.
"Derp de derp."
C is fairly straight forward. There is very little variability in different implimentations, but C++ has exactly the same problem as CSS2. It's hideously complex to the point of being near impossible to impliment fully and correctly, which defeats the point of having a standard in the first place. You've just given a second example of a broken standard.
I dont know what you do for a living, but I make web pages, and god damn if IE isn't the biggest piece of non-standards-compliant horseshit browser I've ever had the displease of dealing with. As someone else who replied to you said, you don't see too many problems when browsing the web with IE because us lowly developers have lost countless hours and hair follicles figuring why the FUCK internet exploder is rendering our beautifully coded pure-CSS site like it was a big pile of steaming crap. So yes, it is obvious. IE renders CSS like your mom gives head - HORRIBLY.
Joseph?
The term is per se. It's Latin.
CSS 2 isn't ahead of
- it's
time and...Since you started the grammar-cop OT, I'd like to point out three things;
For a long time, it has been bad netiquette to critisize other people's grammar and spelling.
The use of persay instead of per se is a play on words that is clever instead of being a cliche'
If you dare to attempt a grammar-cop role, it is best if you don't make grammatical errors yourself; Your use of it's was wrong.
Best regards.