Acid 2 test?

Posted by pnkrkrgeo92 on Wed, 12/19/2007 - 23:27

I noticed that Firefox 2 doesn't render the Acid 2 web standards test very well though way better than IE7 does. Is this fixed in Firefox 3? I just don't feel like installing FF3 and scraping all my addons at this moment so if somebody would be willing to check, that'd be great. Thanks. 

 Acid2 Test

http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2/

 The reason I'm asking this is because IE8 beta 1 will come out in 2008 and they claim that it passes this web standards test. More about IE8:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071219/tc_infoworld/94142

 

 
 


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Either it's fake or the
Submitted by LIJI on Fri, 12/21/2007 - 16:50.

Either it's fake or the anti-trust thing is going nice.
IE8 being a standard aware would actually help Firefox and the other browsers (As described somewhere else), so I take it as a nice thing.

I pretty much thing it's caused by the anti-trust. I've read someone Microsoft do not think making IE pass Acid2 is something that they should add to IE as soon as possible, but a small feature wanted by some people, and for that reason they didn't want to add it in IE7.

-LIJI of the Neatwares Network and Neatwares Studio

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I doubt it
Submitted by Kelson on Fri, 12/21/2007 - 18:32.

The announcement came just 6 days after Opera filed the antitrust complaint was filed, with a weekend in the middle.  Given how poorly IE7 handled the test, how likely do you think it is that they fixed all those bugs and added all those features in less than one week?

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Acid Test
Submitted by dmitrikaramazov on Thu, 12/20/2007 - 21:01.

Wow, Internet Explorer mutilates that thing!

 

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It should be ok
Submitted by sonickydon on Thu, 12/20/2007 - 15:23.

I haven't tried the beta 2 yet but it worked just fine in the previous beta so i can't see a reasson it should be broken in the final release.

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nvm
Submitted by pnkrkrgeo92 on Wed, 12/19/2007 - 23:35.

I downloaded Firefox 3 beta 2 portable and it seems to render the acid test okay but not perfectly yet. 

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Acid test is borked.
Submitted by JustZisGuy on Thu, 12/20/2007 - 14:30.

The server running the acid test is borked right now. As a result the Acid test looks wrong in Opera an Safari as well. It tests the handling of some embedded object getting a 404, but their servers 404 pages are returing "OK" instead of 404. So much for standards!

Anyway, I'll believe IE 8 passes the acid test when I see in a final shipped product. I'd bet that making it render that breaks compatibility that MS considers critical to keeping big paying customers happy. And even if it does pass this test, it will probably STILL be doing a zillion other things wrong.

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Alternate Location
Submitted by Kelson on Thu, 12/20/2007 - 21:36.

I found out on the Slashdot discussion that Ian Hickson has a copy of the test on his own server.  The relevant object on that version points to another URL, which is returning the correct 404 status, so you can test Firefox 3 beta, Opera 9, Safari 3, etc. there while waiting for webstandards.org to fix their site.

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Not that I'm switching to IE anytime soon
Submitted by pnkrkrgeo92 on Thu, 12/20/2007 - 17:20.

Okay I noticed there was something up with the test. I'm not switching back to IE anytime soon as IE7 crashes right when I try to close it. Then Vista's wonderful "rescue" feature attempts to restart IE. 

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