Acid2 is a nice way to test the standards compliance of a browser. What is not nice is that most of the popular browsers did not pass it. Surprisingly, this is changing fast. The recent, or upcoming, versions of major browsers now do pass Acid2. And yes, this includes IE 8, which gets a lot of attention, and Firefox 3. Kudos to the vendors. I hope the trend continues in other technologies.
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December 20th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Are you suggesting that we may see an overall standard that will be used for all browsers in the future? It seems that whatever Microsoft develop the other players are always one step ahead of them.
December 23rd, 2007 at 2:32 pm
John: They are supposedly catching up, or at least trying. My hope is they do because unless there is a level playing field, we can’t push for real innovation in the market.
Re, Entry: This is great news!
December 27th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Is Firefox3 available for download?
I have seen some images of FF3 but not get to chance to use this.
December 27th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
john, not an overall standard, but if browser vendors show keen interest in compliance with standards, it will help us users a lot.
John Melling, well said.
Sanjay, Firefox 3 builds have been available for some time. You can get them at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/ Or you can choose to download the source and build the binary yourself.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:40 am
[...] well, the joy of major browsers complying with Acid2 is going to be shortlived, we already have Acid3! Just kidding. Neither is Acid3 ready, nor does it [...]
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:47 am
[...] is supposed to be better, in fact it even passed the acid test. But it is dreaded to break many more things than its predecessor, and yet again by [...]