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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.

6 of 309 comments (clear)

  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: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!

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

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

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

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

  5. 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.