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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. Re:Firefox by brunascle · · Score: 5, Informative

    the test is here.

    i'm getting a 50/100 in Firefox.

  2. Latest Safari nightly scores... by The+Ancients · · Score: 5, Informative

    90/100.

    Getting pretty close.

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  3. Konqueror by kevmatic · · Score: 5, Informative

    I haven't seen anybody answer konqueror yet!

    I tried it in Konqi 3.5.8 with Gentoo. It asked me what I wanted to do with "empty.txt" then segfaulted. Anyone fairing better?

    1. Re:Konqueror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      That crash is fixed in 3.5.9 (which does 41)... 4.0.2 does 61, 4.1-pre 63. Early 4.0.x versions do less.

  4. Re:Firefox by bunratty · · Score: 5, Informative

    The test consists largely of 100 JavaScript tests designed to throw an assertion on failure and return a certain value on pass. The score is how many of the tests out of 100 pass. You can see which tests failed by clicking or shift-clicking the A in Acid3 after the test completes. In the sense that each test can relatively independently pass or fail (although some tests depend on previous tests), yes, it is a quantitative test.

    The other part of the test is rendering the Acid3 text with shadow and the colored rectangles. By seeing how the Acid3 test fails in many other browsers, you can see that it can also render X, Fail, and a picture of a cat on failure of some rendering tests, typically in red so they stand out.

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  5. Re:Firefox by dal20402 · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's misleading for the summary to say "Safari" gets 87/100 when the version of Safari that does that is not yet released.

    Run current WebKit nightlies to get the high score now. The changes will be in the upcoming Safari 3.1 release.