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Acid3 Test Released
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Zonk
on Wednesday March 05, @04:42PM
from the new-is-better-than-old dept.
from the new-is-better-than-old dept.
An anonymous reader writes ""The Web Standards Project has announced the release of Acid3, the latest test designed to expose flaws in the implementation of mature Web standards in browsers. 'By making sure their software adheres to the test, the creators of these products can be more confident that their software will display and function with Web pages correctly both now and with Web pages of the future. 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.' Screenshots at the Drunken Fist site show the success of Safari 3 (which originally scored 31, but is now Scoring 87/100) IE6, and IE7 (massive fail, of course)'." There are additional discussions of the new test happening around the web.
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IE 5.5 Beats IE6 and IE7 On Acid 3 279 comments
Steven Noonan sends us to a page where he is collecting and updating results for various browsers on the newly released Acid 3 test. No browser yet scores 100 on this test. (We discussed Acid 3 when it came out.) He writes, "It's not surprising that Internet Explorer is losing to every other modern browser, but how did IE 5.5 beat IE 6.0 and 7.0?" All of the IE versions score below 20 on Acid 3.
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Bad day for IE8 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bad day for IE8 (Score:5, Funny)
I'd read TFA but... (Score:5, Funny)
Latest Safari nightly scores... (Score:5, Informative)
90/100 [mothership.co.nz].
Getting pretty close.
Konqueror (Score:5, Informative)
I tried it in Konqi 3.5.8 with Gentoo. It asked me what I wanted to do with "empty.txt" then segfaulted. Anyone fairing better?
Re:Konqueror (Score:5, Informative)
Slashdoted (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Slashdoted (Score:5, Funny)
How do the acid-test creators test the acid test? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:How do the acid-test creators test the acid tes (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Firefox (Score:5, Informative)
i'm getting a 50/100 in Firefox.
Re:Opera (Score:5, Informative)
All of the rectangles are grey (two different shades), the test name is red and does not have a shadow, and there is an x in the upper right hand corner.
Re:Firefox (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Firefox (Score:5, Informative)
It's misleading for the summary to say "Safari" gets 87/100 when the version of Safari that does that is not yet released.
Run current WebKit nightlies to get the high score now. The changes will be in the upcoming Safari 3.1 release.
Re:Firefox (Score:5, Informative)
The test consists largely of 100 JavaScript tests designed to throw an assertion on failure and return a certain value on pass. The score is how many of the tests out of 100 pass. You can see which tests failed by clicking or shift-clicking the A in Acid3 after the test completes. In the sense that each test can relatively independently pass or fail (although some tests depend on previous tests), yes, it is a quantitative test.
The other part of the test is rendering the Acid3 text with shadow and the colored rectangles. By seeing how the Acid3 test fails in many other browsers, you can see that it can also render X, Fail, and a picture of a cat on failure of some rendering tests, typically in red so they stand out.
Re:Firefox 2.0.0.12 (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Firefox 2.0.0.12 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Of Course IE will fail, ACID test is biased... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Of Course IE will fail, ACID test is biased... (Score:5, Insightful)
So, I guess what I'm saying is that complaining about it being designed so that IE would fail is like saying that American Gladiators was designed so that my 8 year old brother would fail. Sure, it has that effect in the end, but the fact that he's under-equipped for such a competition isn't American Gladiators' fault.
Re:Of Course IE will fail, ACID test is biased... (Score:5, Funny)
I think the mere fact that American Gladiators is considered tv-worthy indicates that we, as a nation, have failed. Also, sorry about your brother. That was really brutal when they knocked him into the pool.
Just sayin'.
-G
Re:Geek version of a measuring contest? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Firefox (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Perhaps.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes, there is almost no correlation between how well a browser does on Acid tests and how well it renders pages on the web. The purpose of the Acid tests is to break the chicken-and-egg problem of web development. The web developers tend not to use features unless all popular browsers support them. On the other hand, the developers of the web browsers tend not to add features that are not used by web developers. Without anyone willing to go first, the implementation and use of new web standards stalls.
The purpose of the Acid tests is to break this logjam by using these new standards in a very public way so that web developers will be motivated to implement them. The "my browser does better than your browser" posturing is a bit immature, but as a side effect it popularizes the faults of browsers and motivates the browser developers to fix them. Then, the web developers use the new features after they are well supported.
Re:Too late for IE8? (Score:5, Informative)
Have you ever tried reading the HTML/CSS specs? They're huge and often vaguely worded. There were often sections that just weren't intuitive, and the only real approach to implementing them was to just figure out what other browser did and copy it. The specs were created by people who have no intention of implementing them themselves, and it really shows.
Re:I would check out the screen captures, but... (Score:5, Funny)