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IE 5.5 Beats IE6 and IE7 On Acid 3

Posted by kdawson on from the acid-reflux dept.

Steven Noonan sends us to a page where he is collecting and updating results for various browsers on the newly released Acid 3 test. No browser yet scores 100 on this test. (We discussed Acid 3 when it came out.) He writes, "It's not surprising that Internet Explorer is losing to every other modern browser, but how did IE 5.5 beat IE 6.0 and 7.0?" All of the IE versions score below 20 on Acid 3.

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  1. Maybe this is obvious but... by JimboFBX · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If there doesn't exist a program that can render your test correctly, then how do you know for sure you wrote it correctly to begin with?

  2. Re:Very simple by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And they are bringing IE8 into compliance because...?


    because they lost the bet. Microsoft expected the force of millions of dollars in propaganda to succeed against those annoying amateurs. But guess what, the amateurs are winning. The book of Mozilla explains it much more elegantly.

    Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower.
    from The Book of Mozilla, 11:9
    (10th Edition)