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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. IE8 Beta 1? by Ai+Olor-Wile · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why has there been no discussion on Slashdot of IE 8 beta 1?

    Available here without any WGA crap.

    (It gets 10/100, btw, and can't do Acid2 completely.)

    1. Re:IE8 Beta 1? by canuck57 · · Score: 0, Troll

      Why has there been no discussion on Slashdot of IE 8 beta 1?

      Might be because most who have tried IE 7, don't take IE 8 seriously and have switched to Firefox.

      Not a joke either. Some people at work are using Vista with IE 7. The site fails, we tell them to use Firefox and it authenticates them and works well. Problem solved.

      Thinking about scraping Vista myself, even though Firefox and Open Office works, too many quirks with it. Took me 3 hours to hack it to work with Samba.

      It is true though, Vista is more secure out of the box, because nothing works.

  2. IE 5.5 Beats 6 and 7 by MidnightBrewer · · Score: 0, Troll

    I guess it just goes to show you that two wrongs do make a right. IE's abilities to render a web page reliably go so far into the realm of incompetence that they've gone straight through and come out the other side.

    --
    "Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day; set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life
  3. Why use IE?! by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't know why people still use IE. There's Firefox, there's Opera, and on both Mac and Windows, there is Safari too. There are plenty of other browsers out there if these three aren't good enough for you. Why in the world would anyone use IE?!?!? This is a sincere question. Would someone please tell me?