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Acid3 Test Released
An anonymous reader writes ""The Web Standards Project has announced the release of Acid3, the latest test designed to expose flaws in the implementation of mature Web standards in browsers. 'By making sure their software adheres to the test, the creators of these products can be more confident that their software will display and function with Web pages correctly both now and with Web pages of the future. The Acid3 Test is designed to test specifications for Web 2.0, and exposes potential flaws in implementations of the public ECMAScript 262 and W3C Document Object Model 2 standards.' Screenshots at the Drunken Fist site show the success of Safari 3 (which originally scored 31, but is now Scoring 87/100) IE6, and IE7 (massive fail, of course)'." There are additional discussions of the new test happening around the web.
It gets... 17. Heard at Microsoft "ACID3? We just passed ACID2! AH CRAP!"
My browser won't render the page properly.
"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth." ~1984 George Orwell
Woo hoo! IE 6.0 displays this just fine: http://acid3.acidtests.org/reference.html Read 'em and weep Firefox!
Comment on your analogy:
I think the mere fact that American Gladiators is considered tv-worthy indicates that we, as a nation, have failed. Also, sorry about your brother. That was really brutal when they knocked him into the pool.
Just sayin'.
-G
Their may be a grammatical error, misspeling, or evn a typo in this post.
Conclusion: ACID3 test didn't pass Slashdot test. Too bad.
I got a 100/100 on the reference image.
Hey, me too. Are you also using Netscape Navigator 4.01?
Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 with thunderbrowse scores 52/100 ;]
I got a 100% score rendering Acid3 on IE8! All I had to do was add the following line to the top of the page!
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<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8"
Once that meta tag is there, all web pages look just as they're supposed to! I'm so glad Microsoft finally fixed this whole compatibility fiasco.
640YB ought to be enough for anybody.
I'm getting 404 in firefox.
yes, looks like the acid tests are failing the slashdot test.
Magic
For the perfect anti-Unix, write an OS that thinks it knows what you're doing better than you do and let it be wrong.
The reference implementation is Ian Hickson's brain.
I touch computers in naughty places
The FBI have their own browser, specially developed in house in collaboration with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jimmy Wales, Linus Torvalds, RMS, Kevin Mitnick and Hugh Jackman (not many people realise this, but 'Swordfish' was actually a documentary on his life).
This browser is the absolute mutt's nuts of browsers. Not only does it render every web standards test 100%, it has done so since version 0.05b (now up to 3.1). By that I mean that version 0.05b will render Acid3 100/100 out of the box (and, I can assure you, Acid4 when it is released).
Anyway, the FBI don't release it to the general public as it would make the web-browsing experience too enjoyable and, when people stopped doing their business due to too much time spent online, then society as we know it would crumble (the US sub-prime disaster and Enron were directly linked to a copy which was smuggled out of the FBI and used by senior partners in influential financial firms). They do produce a *png for Acid3 though and email it back for the reference image.
So now you know.