Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Standards and Browser support....

Taken from http://webstandards.org/act/acid2/guide.html
Acid2 is a test page for web browsers published by The Web Standards Project (WaSP). It has been written to help browser vendors make sure their products correctly support features that web designers would like to use. These features are part of existing standards but haven't been interoperably supported by major browsers. Acid2 tries to change this by challenging browsers to render Acid2 correctly before shipping.

Acid2 is a complex web page. It uses features that are not in common use yet, because of lack of support, and it crams many tests into one page. The aim has been to make it simple for developers and users to check if a browser passes the test.

The link to the actual test is http://webstandards.org/act/acid2/test.html#top, and a picture of what you should see can be found at http://webstandards.org/act/acid2/reference.html.

I tried it in
Internet Explorer 6 - a shocking mess, you could not even guess what it was supposed to be... (0/10)
Firefox - Not impresive, but a reasonable effort, you could at least see what it was supposed to be... (7/10)
Opera 8 beta3 - Suprisingly poor, you could work out what it was supposed to be, but not as good as FF... (6/10)

Anyone know a browser that makes a better job of this test than Firefox?

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