The Webstandards Acid Test

An interesting test for browser compatibility

[cmarshall]

I just ran the Acid2 Test [webstandards.org] on Firefox Mac, and got some whacky results.

This seems to be a test of rather extreme CSS, and may actually show you how NOT to write CSS. As it uses CSS that follows standards, but breaks on many browsers.

I'll have to see if any browsers pass it.

UPDATE: Safari and Opera pass it, but iCab (who like to boast about their standards compliance) has a gap. Still better than Firefox, which is all over the place.

You DON'T want to see what IE7 looks like in it.

[penders]

For the record... Opera8 certainly doesn't pass - it's messed up in a similiar (but different) way to FF1.5. I've been toying with the idea of upgrading to Opera9 for a while now (I think it must dominate Op8 in usage by a fair way now?!) - I tend to only use it for testing - can you have Op8 and Op9 installed side by side without a problem?

Btw, are you testing FF2.0?

IE7 can't be as bad as IE6?!?! eeesh!

[cmarshall]

I used Opera 9 Mac (Didn't have much time).

On the Mac, I have Opera 6, 8, 8.5 and 9. They can all run independently of each other (sort of).

I only have 9 installed on my Windows XP VM.

My experience with IE7 so far has not been too thrilling. They left in almost every single blasted quirk from IE6, but fixed those incredibly important details like having multiple animated background GIFs and transparent PNG.