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May 16, 2005

Dropping Acid

My husband showed me this tonight and I had to pass it on: Safari passes the ACID2 browser compliance test.

The Acid2 test is a page (created by the Web Standards Project) that's full of every weird piece of CSS, PNG, and HTML that current standards allow. It also includes some invalid CSS which is designed to fail.

To pass the test, a browser has to understand all the page notation. Then it has to handle the errors gracefully. See how your favorite browser fared.

Posted by Meghan at May 16, 2005 08:26 PM

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I should point out that no *released* version of Safari passes this test. Try it in your version of Safari, and you'll be disappointed.

A developer on the project simply hacked through the tests and developed a one-off version of the browser to satisfy the somewhat arbitrary requirements; who knows if regular rendering is broken in this "version" or not.

As a registered Firefox fanboy, I will note that Firefox performs best among the browser versions that are actually available to the public right now...

Posted by: Matt [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 17, 2005 04:59 PM

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