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The Web Standards Project (WaSP) today announced the release of Acid3, the latest in a line of tests designed to expose flaws in the implementation of mature Web standards in Web browsers. (...) The Acid3 Test is designed to test specifications for Web 2.0, and exposes potential flaws in implementations of the public ECMAScript 262 and W3C Document Object Model 2 standards.
Now that many browsers can pass the Acid2 test, Acid3 brings standards-testing to a new level. No browser passes Acid3 for the moment.
The test itself can be found here: [acid3.acidtests.org...]
And - if they have a 100% standards compliant rendering tool in their secret lab, can I buy a copy of it?
My bet is on Opera for the first fully compliant release. Not that it's a race or anything.
[edited by: encyclo at 8:49 pm (utc) on Mar. 4, 2008]
If no browser can pass it, how do they know the test itself is perfect?
They probably just read spec and carefully create test case to see if a particular implementation works as it is described in the spec.
:-))
Uh... it breaks horrible in MSIE 6. Latest stable Opera and Firefox also can't handle it even halfways.
Recommendations are just that, interpretations of them from users as well as UA's has always been different and if support for all these CSS properties and the new stuff in ACID1,2,3 had had a solid benchmark, there wouldn't be any need for the "award", the browser would simply work within recommended guidelines.
It's called QA!
You have a spec for HTML, someone writes a test case to validate that spec for HTML in a browser, if your browser doesn't pass that test case your product is crap.
As a QA loving Silicon Valley engineer, I don't see the problem.
Bottom line? The Acid Test fails the Balam Test by virtue of the fact that the Acid Test cannot produce consistent results when presented with a consistent test environment.
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FWIW, Netscape 4.08 just explodes when tested... :)
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Bottom line? The Acid Test fails the Balam Test by virtue of the fact that the Acid Test cannot produce consistent results when presented with a consistent test environment.
What makes you think IE is a consistent browser? Firefox 2.0 always produces 50% here.
With IE6, I have gotten scores of 11, 12, 14 & 15.
With IE6 I get 12 (consistently).
Firefox 2.0 always produces 50% here.
With FF 2.0.0.12 I get 51 ! ;)
It managed to crash Opera 9.25 ;)
The first time I ran it on Opera 9.26 it got to 46. The second time it crashed!
Firefox 2.0 always produces 50% here.With FF 2.0.0.12 I get 51 ! ;)
I get 50 in FF1.5 !
It managed to crash Opera 9.25 ;)The first time I ran it on Opera 9.26 it got to 46. The second time it crashed!
A measly 2 in Opera 8 - but it didn't crash! ;)
Way to go. Interesting to look at the CSS code though...
