Browser Market Share for September, 2007

[omgwtfbbq]

SamuelRSmith said:

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/8030/acidcomparisondk5.jpg

Acid comparison, look at that and you'll learn why Fx and IE just don't cut it.

The versions I used:

Opera: 9.23
Firefox: 2.0.0.6
Internet Explorer: 7.0.6000.16546
Safari: 3.0.3

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html#winspeed

Speed test for Windows browsers, green is the fastest time... guess who's all green?

meaningless (Acid2 compatibility). Opera just went and fixed the problems they had. Same with Safari. That doesn't make Opera more standards compliant than Firefox. For example:

I take a random sample of 1000 Japanese people and find that 30% of them have a DS, and 10% of them have a PSP. Now Sony goes and gives all 1000 of those people a PSP, so that when I sample them again, 100% have a PSP. Is PSP more popular?

This is the same situation. Retroactively fixing the browser to give perfect rendering does not mean you have better CSS standards than the other browser, as only a very small subset is tested. More important is how well a browser built before Acid2 renders it. And I can't find any reference images for Opera at that time. Although of course, this doesn't show current compliance, it does show how they stacked up at that point.

Also, Firefox 3 renders Acid2 perfectly, by the way.