IE on Acid

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Several bits of news today on the web-standards front. Firstly, the IE team has released some commentary regarding the status of their IE8 compatibility with Acid2:
 

Although we said that IE8 Beta 1 passes the ACID2 test, some of you may be seeing results like the image above; we thought we should explain what’s going on. IE8 passes the official ACID2 test hosted on http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html. (Note, this seems to be a popular destination at the moment. You may have trouble reaching the site.) There are also a number of copies of this test around the net.  One popular copy that I’ve seen of late is http://acid2.acidtests.org/ IE8 fails the copies of ACID2 due to the cross domain security checks IE performs for ActiveX controls.  Since IE does not natively handle HTML content in the OBJECT tag, but rather uses IE’s rendering engine as an ActiveX to display this HTML content, the same cross domain security checks also apply…

 
 
In other news, the Web Standards Project has just released Acid3:
 

The Web Standards Project (WaSP) today announced the release of Acid3, the latest in a line of tests designed to expose flaws in the implementation of mature Web standards in Web browsers. By making sure their software adheres to the test, the creators of these products can be more confident that their software will display and function with Web pages correctly both now and with Web pages of the future…

 

 
And now for Acid3’s effects on the peanut gallery, as produced by DrunkenFist.com:

Reference Rendering:

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And now the Fail parade:

Camino 1.51 Mac OS 10.5

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Firefox 2 Mac OS 10.5

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Firefox 3 Mac OS 10.5

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Internet Explorer 6 Windows XP

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Internet Explorer 7 Windows Vista

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Internet Explorer 7 Windows XP

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Firefox 2 Windows XP

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Firefox 3 Windows XP

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Safari 3 Mac OS 10.5

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Opera 9.24 Windows Vista

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Edit: Since it’s not included in the screenshots above I tested the WinXP IE8 beta, and it appears it gets a score of (16/100).

Edit2: Charlie Reinehr points out that the new development build of Opera (build 9770) scores an admirable (64/100). Thanks to Charlie for pointing this out, and nice job Opera team!

As an additional aside, WebKit (the engine behind Safari) has a development build that is reported to score (90/100). 

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  2. Running build 9770 (which is a little more than a month old now), Opera 9.5 scored a 64/100, which appears to be better than any other browser listed here.

  3. Thanks for pointing this out Charlie!

    Admittedly I just pulled the test info that DrunkenFist.com had posted up, with an addendum dealing with the new IE beta – since I discussed it earlier in the post. It’s great to see that Opera is continuing its tradition of being one of the true leaders in standards-compliance!

    I have updated my main article, btw, to show this new info, plus that of WebKit’s new development version.

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