[TETENAL]

The ACID3 browser test is now available:

Acid3 Browser Test - The Web Standards Project

This is what the reference rendering looks like:



And here is what you get with the latest nightly build of WebKit:



Still 13 to go!

[mdc]

^ Safari 3.0.4 (5523.15) -- 10.5.2


^ Firefox 3 Beta 3

I like that the Acid 3 text has a drop shadow on it. It'll be nice when other browsers support the text-shadow css tag.

[olePigeon]

Firefox 2.0.0.12

[mdc]

^ Internet Explorer 7


^ Internet Explorer 6

iPhone gets to 27 and then displays a bunch of XML over the page.

[FireWire]

Camino 1.5.5



iCab 4.0.1 is identical to Safari 3.0.4

I was wondering, is this test a chicken and egg situation? How come so many "modern" web browser fail this test miserably?

[RAILhead]

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by FireWire 

I was wondering, is this test a chicken and egg situation? How come so many "modern" web browser fail this test miserably?

The test seems to be aimed at a lot of edge cases that aren't used all that often and thus are most likely not to work right.

[C.A.T.S. CEO]

EDIT: changed it to be more appropriate to the thread.

[RAILhead]

Uhhh, please leave the humor to the professionals -- or read the thread first, at least.

[Eug]

So, is this another useless test?

Or should we think ACID2 is useful? (Asking. Not being sarcastic.)

[TETENAL]

ACID2 wasn't useless since it motivated browser vendors to improve standards compliance. Including Microsoft even (although you will never see it since IE8 will ship with the IE7 engine as the default). For the same reason ACID3 is not useless.

[Eug]

But ACID2 compliance isn't really the same thing as global standards compliance.

[TETENAL]

No, it's not, but fixing bugs exposed by ACID2 improves global standards compliance. Ditto for ACID3.

[Chuckit]

The Acid tests are useful, in my opinion, because they give an easy visual mark for browser users to aim for. It doesn't guarantee compliance to the whole standard, but it encourages people to move in the right way.

[Eug]

What I always wondered is why there weren't say ACID tests 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e, 3f, etc.

[TETENAL]

Originally Posted by Eug 

What I always wondered is why there weren't say ACID tests 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e, 3f, etc.

I guess I don't get what you are driving at.

[Atheist]

How do they know what the ACID3 test is supposed to look like when no browser can rendering it correctly.

[olePigeon]

There's a picture to compare to of what it's supposed to look like.

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by Atheist 

How do they know what the ACID3 test is supposed to look like when no browser can rendering it correctly.

Because it's written to the standards?

[RAILhead]

Originally Posted by Atheist 

How do they know what the ACID3 test is supposed to look like when no browser can rendering it correctly.

"No browser currently exists which gets a 100% score, obviously. However, the specifications are precise enough (and Ian Hickson who created the Acid3 test is knowledgeable enough) that it can be deduced how the test should render. (Although there’s always a tiny chance that a flaw in the test is found at some stage and that it will need to be updated; this happened at some point in Acid2, too, iirc.)"