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Acid3 Test Released

Posted by Zonk on from the new-is-better-than-old dept.

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.

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  1. Bad day for IE8 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It gets... 17. Heard at Microsoft "ACID3? We just passed ACID2! AH CRAP!"

    1. Re:Bad day for IE8 by jimbojw · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hey now, at least it passes the reference rendering, which is more than I can say for some browsers (*cough* lynx *cough*)

    2. Re:Bad day for IE8 by hmallett · · Score: 3, Funny

      Lynx spoils you. I prefer wget.

  2. I'd read TFA but... by Fozzyuw · · Score: 4, Funny

    My browser won't render the page properly.

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  3. Re:Firefox 2.0.0.12 by thornomad · · Score: 5, Funny

    Woo hoo! IE 6.0 displays this just fine: http://acid3.acidtests.org/reference.html Read 'em and weep Firefox!

  4. Re:Of Course IE will fail, ACID test is biased... by Ambiguous+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

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  5. Slashdoted by fluch · · Score: 5, Funny

    Conclusion: ACID3 test didn't pass Slashdot test. Too bad.

    1. Re:Slashdoted by The+Ancients · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's ok here. I've even scripted 700 machines here to reload the page repeatedly just to ensure it isn't.

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  6. Firefox by zulater · · Score: 4, Funny

    I got a 100/100 on the reference image.

  7. Re:Firefox by Random+BedHead+Ed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, me too. Are you also using Netscape Navigator 4.01?

  8. Thunderbird ;] by Przemo-c · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 with thunderbrowse scores 52/100 ;]

  9. 100% score on IE8 by spacemky · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

    <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.

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  10. Re:I would check out the screen captures, but... by emilper · · Score: 5, Funny

    yes, looks like the acid tests are failing the slashdot test.

  11. Re:How do the acid-test creators test the acid tes by kryten_nl · · Score: 4, Funny

    Magic

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