Comments on: WaSP Releases Acid3 Test

By: Daniel Tiecher

Daniel Tiecher — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:44:04 +0000

I took the test with Opera 9.5 and got 65 out of 100 on it. Guess 9.5 is a nice improvement over 9.25.

Rick — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:10:47 +0000

I tried the acid3 test on IE6, Firefox2 and Opera 9.25.

Firefox got ‘high score’ with 50 out of 100. Opera had 47. IE was barely in double digits (surprise!!)

btw … Firefox 2 doesn’t pass acid 2. Firefox 3 beta does, finally.

mattymcg — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:37:31 +0000

I'm pretty certain that:

The Acid tests are not the primary driving forces dictating what makes it into each release of Internet Explorer. There are bound to be security enhancements, features and all sorts of stuff that, if history is anything to go by, will take priority.
Microsoft are already making improvements to fix bugs in their browser's implementation of JavaScript and the DOM that have been well documented for years. Acid3 compliance will likely come after their own internal goals have been met (which is what happened with IE7).

NathanielB — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:31:32 +0000

It’s pretty good (or maybe bad?) timing this came out.. hopefully the IE Team will adopt this as well in their development plan, if it’s not too late.
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=535589