SamuelRSmith said:
Basically, the Acid3 test tells the browser to do specific tasks, and it ranks the browser's performance (out of a hundred) on how well it performed the said tasks. I believe that Opera (version 10a) is the only browser that can currently achieve 100/100 ranking, though I wouldn't be surprised if the latest Firefox BETA could do the same. --- As for what the tests are, they're basically testing different aspects of the browser's renderer, there is a set of standards, or a "rule book" set out by the W3C which gives guidelines on how browsers should render different things, and how web designers should write their pages. The idea is that, if everyone followed these standards, that end-users will be able to get the same experience browsing the web no matter what platform they're on, or what browser they use. This works well in theory, but Microsoft are notorious for not meeting the standards with IE. This means that if web-designers were to follow the W3C then their websites may not end up working as intended on IE. As IE has the largest marketshare of web browsers, web designers stick to just getting it working on IE rather than following standards. This, of course, makes the pages less viewable in other browsers - it's a dirty trick, set forth by Microsoft, to try and keep IE's market dominance. |
Your post was going great until the last sentence. From what I've seen MS has been improving their compliance (and consequently their Acid test results). While they do take longer than other developers to do that, I think it shows that there's not any big conspiracy there. If anything they're just less worried about it since they have the most market share.
Internet Explorer 8 runs Acid1 and Acid2 perfectly I believe.
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