Tuesday, February 24, 2009 4:33 PM rojay12

Acid 3 test – Safari 4 Beta, SAFARI 3.5, IE 7, IE 8, Firefox 3.06, Firefox 3.1 and Chrome

I recently downloaded the latest version of Apple Safari 4 Beta and was happy to see someone is making progress in standardization. The acid 3 test can be found and run at http://acid3.acidtests.org/.

And the winner is….

Safari 4 – 100/100

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Firefox 3.1 Beta – 93/100

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Chrome – 79/100

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Safari 3.5 – 75/100

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Firefox 3.06 – 71/100

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IE 8 – 20/100

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IE 7 – ??? WTF?

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# re: Acid 3 test – Safari 4 Beta, SAFARI 3.5, IE 7, IE 8, Firefox 3.06, Firefox 3.1 and Chrome

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 8:05 PM by Jon Galloway

Poor Opera... always forgotten.

Opera 9.6 comes in ahead of Chrome, at 85/100.

# re: Acid 3 test – Safari 4 Beta, SAFARI 3.5, IE 7, IE 8, Firefox 3.06, Firefox 3.1 and Chrome

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 8:12 PM by Marc Brooks

Chrome 2.0.164.0 (current dev beta) passed with 100/100, but displays LINKTEST FAILED in red, no idea what that means.

# re: Acid 3 test – Safari 4 Beta, SAFARI 3.5, IE 7, IE 8, Firefox 3.06, Firefox 3.1 and Chrome

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:28 AM by Alan

SO... passing ACID does not mean that the browsers are standard compliant... it just means that they pass this test.

It would seem that there is more emphasis put on passing the ACID tests then making the browser standards compliant and the specification is so vagure you can argue there are multiple ways of rendering certain elements but both are right...

ACID 3 is an indication only... it is not a standards test.

# re: Acid 3 test – Safari 4 Beta, SAFARI 3.5, IE 7, IE 8, Firefox 3.06, Firefox 3.1 and Chrome

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 4:55 AM by Mike

Opera 10 runs 100/100 since January

# re: Acid 3 test – Safari 4 Beta, SAFARI 3.5, IE 7, IE 8, Firefox 3.06, Firefox 3.1 and Chrome

Friday, March 20, 2009 8:23 AM by Dave Lindhout

It's not that Microsoft doesn't get it right, it's that the results look like IE7. IE6 wasn't much different. How can you trash existing standards that badly? In my limited experience I've learned to be less critical and more accepting of the small differences in the final rendering between browsers. What bothers me is the completely wrong answers IE has given me in the past.

I have watched IE8 development from afar, and have been encouraged by the desire to be a compliant browser. The compatibility mode issue has been a tough one. Personally, I think they should abandon the past, but if Microsoft is worried about providing compatibility to their customers, they better be providing some compatibility for IE6. That's were people are really stuck.

# re: Acid 3 test – Safari 4 Beta, SAFARI 3.5, IE 7, IE 8, Firefox 3.06, Firefox 3.1 and Chrome

Friday, March 20, 2009 10:46 AM by n00tch

Compatibility mode for IE 6? No sir, we do not need a compatibilty for IE 6. I can't believe you suggested that Dave!

Let's leave rotten corpses where they deserve to be, dead and buried!

In any case, the Acid 3 test results don't surprise me much at all. I wish people would shun MS browsers. As a web developer they seem to be the root of all evil...

# re: Acid 3 test – Safari 4 Beta, SAFARI 3.5, IE 7, IE 8, Firefox 3.06, Firefox 3.1 and Chrome

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 2:03 PM by rojay12

<rant>To me the purpose of the test is to test certain web standards.  If every browser development team shoots to keep that level of standards then web site developers would spend less time dumbing down thier sites or creating work around style sheets for non compliant browsers.  Why not everyone join the Web Standards Project and agree on a method and implament it in like fashion.</rant>

"Acid3 is a test page from the Web Standards Project that checks how well a web browser follows certain web standards, especially relating to the Document Object Model and JavaScript."

en.wikipedia.org/.../Acid3

# re: Acid 3 test – Safari 4 Beta, SAFARI 3.5, IE 7, IE 8, Firefox 3.06, Firefox 3.1 and Chrome

Wednesday, August 19, 2009 6:16 AM by Jay

Opera was the first to pass the test.

Yet it is only mentioned in a comment...

not fair!!

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