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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.
I've always wondered... isn't this the geek version of a measuring contest? Microsoft creates IE. Geeks create FireFox. Microsoft marketing says IE is better. Geeks create another piece of test software that says FireFox is better. When it comes right down to it... aren't both sides insisting they measure their digital dinkus with their own ruler and not the other guy's, just to show theirs is bigger?
(I know, I know, the analogy breaks down somewhat when you realize each ruler only works for one side... fine, they're special quantum rulers...)
His point is that the actual score of IE will be lower than the rest because the test was biased towards making more things in IE fail. Anything under 100 is failing, so just because IE gets a lower score than any other browser (that gets under 100) doesn't mean that IE is worse.
It's common knowledge that firefox is just as non-compliant as far as standards go as IE, even if slashtards won't admit it.