Acid3 browser test completed, available now

200830 Jan
Acid3 browser test completed, available now
by Nicholas Shanks
Posted in Browsers, Scripting
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Ian Hickson, the Google employee tasked with creating the next generation of acid test, has completed his work, which is now available for public consumption at its new home, acidtests.org. Unlike the first acid test, which focused on the box model, and the second acid test, which covered a broad variety of basic HTML and CSS features, Acid3 covers 100 of the nooks and crannies of HTTP, HTML, CSS, ECMAScript, SVG and XML, all through the medium of DOM scripting, a critical requirement for any modern web application. Ian Hickson is also the primary author of the HTML5 specification, which started life as a spec. called ‘Web Apps 1.0’, and as such has lots of application‐related features such as client‐side storage and enhanced forms. Ian wrote 64 of the tests, with the remaining 36 being submitted by both browser vendors and interested web developers.

Work started on the new acid test almost as soon as the IE developer team posted notification that IE8 passes Acid2. As was widely criticised around the ’net recently, it was revealed Internet Explorer 8 would now only pass the test if the server was modified to output a special HTTP header. It is not known to css3.info at this time whether the header would be required for IE8 to achieve compliance in the new test.

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- 01.
  
  ed says:Comment » March 23rd, 2009 at 3:27 am
  
  Safari 4 beta has 100/100…
- 02.
  
  Nick says:Comment » March 23rd, 2009 at 5:15 am
  
  http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/3455/konqueror42acid3.png
  
  KDE/Konqueror 4.2.1
- 03.
  
  floogy says:Comment » March 23rd, 2009 at 9:40 pm
  
  Opera 10 Internal has 100/100
- 04.
  
  flaviomuniz says:Comment » May 26th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
  
  firefox 3.5 beta 4 fail.
- 05.
  
  Steltek says:Comment » May 30th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
  
  Minefield 94/100
  Gecko/20090528 Minefield/3.6a1pre
- 06.
  
  Victoria says:Comment » June 12th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
  
  OMG Safari 4 passed the acid test with flying colors… XDDD. I just got Firefox updated and it only reached 71 (all boxes, but shades of grey). I’m going to be checking Opera and Arora now. (goes and checks) Opera 9 got a 81 (but it failed because no colors showed up except green and some boxes were different shapes than the reference on the right…oopsies…) and Arora got a 100/100 but it said linktest failed. oops. And then it crashed… ugh. XDDD
- 07.
  
  Sebastian says:Comment » July 1st, 2009 at 12:39 pm
  
  Just checked FF 3.5 and got 93/100 on Vista SP1
- 08.
  
  anonymous says:Comment » January 26th, 2010 at 9:38 am
  
  hmm, on chrome 3.0.195.38 I seem to get 99/100 sometimes (2/5 clicks) on the acidtests.org link above.
  
  P.S. no, I don't have OCD — I was just clicking around.
- 09.
  
  wholesale designer clothes says:Comment » September 6th, 2010 at 10:37 am
  
  http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com
- 10.
  
  Josh says:Comment » January 10th, 2011 at 8:32 pm
  
  93/100 on Vista SP1…interesting!
- 11.
  
  Jonathan says:Comment » January 17th, 2011 at 6:29 am
  
  97/100 Firefox 4.0b9
- 12.
  
  Johny says:Comment » April 12th, 2011 at 10:03 pm
  
  Opera 11.10 – 100/100 :)
- 13.
  
  ThangLuu says:Comment » November 25th, 2011 at 6:35 am
  
  IE 9 : 100/100
- 14.
  
  prumsmarkita says:Comment » December 10th, 2011 at 6:01 pm
  
  I am sure you will love to your friends for more

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