Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Acid3 tests

As quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3,

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 DOM and JavaScript.

It was in development from April 2007,[1] and released on 3 March 2008.[2] The main developer was Ian Hickson, who also wrote the Acid2 test. Acid2 focused primarily on Cascading Style Sheets, but this third Acid test focuses also on technologies used on modern, highly interactive websites characteristic of Web 2.0, such as ECMAScript and DOM Level 2. A few tests also concern Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), XML and data: URIs. It includes several elements from W3C CSS3 working drafts that have not made it to candidate recommendations yet.
When successful, the Acid3 test displays a gradually increasing percentage counter with colored rectangles in the background. The percentage displayed is based on the number of sub-tests passed. In addition to these the browser also has to render the page exactly like the reference page as rendered in the same browser. Like the Acid2 test, the reference rendering is not a bitmap, to allow for certain differences in font rendering.

Ok, enough of copying. Here are some results from popular browsers today.
Google Chrome


Firefox 3

Internet Explorer 8, Beta 2

Opera 9.5
Acid3 was deliberately written in such a way that every web browser failed upon the test's release.

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