Thread: Acid 3

Acid 3 is a test for a Browser and from the Web Standards Project that checks how well a web browser follows certain selected elements from web standards, especially relating to the Document Object Model (DOM) and JavaScript.

To pass the test it is required to score 100/100.

Till now only Presto and Webkit support Acid 3but not by Gecko and Trident.

1. FireFox Fails

2. Internet explorer fails

3. Midori Score 100, but test failed

4. Safari Pass

And the same is for Google Chrome as of Safari.

5. Opera Passes

So, at last the most powerful Javascript Engine are Webkit and Presto.

To know more about javascript Engines go to:
http://www.indiabroadband.net/broadb...t-engines.html (Javascript Engines)

Try yourself at:
http://acid3.acidtests.org/

Good one ......................

Have you tried yourself, you can try at:
Acid 3 Test
It will take only 2 sec.

Two of the above tests are tried by me...........

Firefox gave 72/100, Chrome returned 100/100. Good tool.

Firefox failed!!!

OK now time to switch to other browsers.

My Internet Explorer gives 8/100....
How funny......

THE COOLEST ONE....
Thnaks alot man...Now its time for me to switch my Browser.....
Thanks for your HELP....

@ashishcw
Welcome........

Nice one gaggan... My google chrome passed but can you tell me the significance of this test.

Google Chrome = 100
Opera = 100
Firefox = 94
IE8 = 08

Originally Posted by HACKdown

Nice one gaggan... My google chrome passed but can you tell me the significance of this test.

The Acid3 tests the browser for these (if browser support it or not as well as how fast it do that job):
Bucket 1(Red): DOM Traversal, DOM Range, HTTP.
Bucket 2(Orange): DOM2 Core and DOM2 Events.
Bucket 3(Yellow): DOM2 Views, DOM2 Style, CSS 3 selectors and Media Queries.
Bucket 4(Green): Behavior of HTML tables and forms when manipulated by script and DOM2 HTML.
Bucket 5(Blue): Tests from the Acid3 Competition like SVG, Unicode, HTML, SMIL.
Bucket 6(Violet): ECMAScript.

If it does not pass it then it shows white or silver colour there.

This test is highly misleading. Many of the tests involve "draft" standards that have yet to be decided (forget implemented). Users will never be affected by bad rendering because a certain browser fails the test on 99% of the websites on the internet. In fact, if you are worried about how many websites your browser can render as expected you should use IE8 on compatibility mode.

As someone who has coded (not designed) a reasonable amount of websites, I can assure you that it is most important that you are not using IE (at least not IE 6 and bellow). The rest of the browsers render all approved standards well enough that even web developers will not know the difference.

You should decide why you are using the Acid tests to choose a browser.

Are you worried about pages not rendering correctly? (if you are, better go back to IE, because many very old websites don't display very well on other browsers and many Indian web developers have yet to learn newer web technologies)

Are you worried that web developers will have to spend extra coding for a certain browser because they'll have to use "hackish" CSS? Then use Opera/Chrome/Safari/Firefox. It doesn't matter whether they pass or fail the Acid test, they'll render standards compliant pages well enough that neither you nor the web developer will notice.

Any remember, the biggest criticism of the Acid test is that is tests for many obscure features but fails to test some basic ones. So, yet again that simply means that in terms of rendering you have two options: IE and not IE. Choose one as explained above. Don't fuss about Acid test results of IE and non IE browsers.

I don't mean to demean the OP. It is just that don't like the Acid test propaganda because it just doesn't matter. It may in the future, when basic standard compliant code is rendered correctly by all browsers. For now, base your choice of browser by how comfortable you are with the looks, speed, and other features that matter to you.

Yes you are right. But these acid tests show which browser organisation is doing how much research in making the things like that. I like kmeleon because it does nicely for me.

I too do not like Browsers because of this test. That is by chance the browser I like (Opera) passes it........

But it is actually the test for; how fast, the browser perform on a single process......

Opera does work better than many others.. but sometimes, opera turbo has failed for me..

Originally Posted by mickey

Opera does work better than many others.. but sometimes, opera turbo has failed for me..

I never use Opera turbo mode as I have faster connection.

It is the best browser for me............

Originally Posted by gaggan4392

I never use Opera turbo mode as I have faster connection.

It is the best browser for me............

are you trying to tease me that i have a slow connection??? yeah indirectly??


which connection are you using btw??

Originally Posted by mickey

are you trying to tease me that i have a slow connection??? yeah indirectly??


which connection are you using btw??

Opera turbo is not for Broadbands as the page starts loading faster because of low ping in the Broadband, which is not in wireless mobile internet. I have 256 Kbps UL. Do not go on my lol....... the pages loads very very fast in my connection because it is Broadband. Only Downloads and online videos are bit slower in this connection.

Originally Posted by gaggan4392

Opera turbo is not for Broadbands as the page starts loading faster because of low ping in the Broadband, which is not in wireless mobile internet. I have 256 Kbps UL. Do not go on my lol....... the pages loads very very fast in my connection because it is Broadband. Only Downloads and online videos are bit slower in this connection.

hahaha... isse sasta nahi mila tujhe??

Originally Posted by gaggan4392

I never use Opera turbo mode as I have faster connection.

It is the best browser for me............

If you've all studied chemistry, then you'll know about the concept of the rate determining step, right? The internet works in a similar manner.

There are two things that could possibly be slowing down your internet speed: the maximum speed of the server (per connection) that is hosting the website you are visiting and the maximum speed of your own connection. The lower of the two is the speed you will actually get. This is pretty intuitive.

What Opera Turbo does is, for websites that give you a slower connection that your connection is capable of handling (rate determining step is the server, not you), download and compress from that server onto the Turbo server and then compress and send it to you. They expect that the rate determining step between Turbo and you to be you. In that case, you will receive the compressed data at the maximum speed possible. But there was a delay, because Opera had to download the page too, and it too had to download at the hosting servers' speed. Therefore, Turbo has a setting where it doesn't use Turbo for all websites but only for certain websites. You can expect this to be useful for all internet connections.

I am happy with opera as I find the pages loads faster than other Browsers.
Good to see that Opera has passed so I have passed since I already use it.

By the way I dont think this kind of tests can really affect anything.