Acid 2 Test Failures........

[CalGrunt]

How come Safari passes this test and yet both Firefox and Camino don't?

http://webstandards.org/act/acid2/

 

[stridey]

How come Safari passes this test and yet both Firefox and Camino don't?

Uhh... 'cause Safari is the first browser to pass it.

 

[Lacero]

Erm, because Safari passed and the others didn't??

Here's to the Crazy Ones ​

 

[CalGrunt]

Erm, because Safari passed and the others didn't??

Here's to the Crazy Ones ​

Ok guys, let me word it a different way. Being that Safari passed and the others didn't, does that mean that Safari is the better browser as far as displaying web pages with all of their content correctly ??

 

[stridey]

Ok guys, let me word it a different way. Being that Safari passed and the others didn't, does that mean that Safari is the better browser as far as displaying web pages with all of their content correctly ??

Theoretically, but the Acid2 test is designed to be extremely complex and difficult to pass. Since IE doesn't (and won't even in Vista) pass it, I *highly* doubt you will see ANY sites that are non-compliant with Gecko based browsers due to anything in the Acid test. No point for web devs to write "correct" sites that IE can't render.

 

[DXoverDY]

Ok guys, let me word it a different way. Being that Safari passed and the others didn't, does that mean that Safari is the better browser as far as displaying web pages with all of their content correctly ??

not necessarily. it's only better at displaying the acid 2 test better .. the test is just one test and doesn't use everything available. firefox, opera, and safari are all pretty good. but they all have their quirks. camino uses the gecko rendering engine, which is the same one used in the mozilla suite and firefox.

 

[nutmac]

Come to think of it, in many ways, Firefox has become worse at rendering web pages. For instance, many web pages on E*TRADE (e.g., portfolio summary) and American Express (e.g., credit card account management section) look whacky under Firefox 1.5.

 

[yenko]

Ok guys, let me word it a different way. Being that Safari passed and the others didn't, does that mean that Safari is the better browser as far as displaying web pages with all of their content correctly ??

Put simply.....Yes.

 

[Lacero]

Put simply.....Yes.

Just watch out for those idiot web coders who design sites for IE exclusively, thus destroying the very foundation of HTML standardization.

Here's to the Crazy Ones ​

 

[treblah]

Just watch out for those idiot web coders who design sites for IE exclusively, thus destroying the very foundation of HTML standardization.

Here's to the Crazy Ones ​

Like making posts on Blogger or Wordpress where Firefox/Camino works and Safari is useless

 

[DXoverDY]

Put simply.....Yes.

simply put, no. it's just a test. it's not even real world usage. chalk it up as a technology achievement not a standards compliant better rendering engine.

 

[yenko]

Just watch out for those idiot web coders who design sites for IE exclusively, thus destroying the very foundation of HTML standardization.

But I thought M$ set the standards


all of them...




'cause they feel like it.