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- przemeklach, on 03/22/2009, -17/+235Mine worked fine. Obviously it's something else that is causing IE8 to crash.
- TrancePhreak, on 03/22/2009, -19/+218I just tried it and did not crash. Check yer virii.
- jakbrud, on 03/22/2009, -61/+241Buried as inaccurate, the test doesn't cause IE8 to crash so check your system for crap.
- HappyScrappy, on 03/23/2009, -29/+158Seriously don't care. Knowing how well my browser performs on the acid test would be great if what I wanted to do each day was run the acid test on my browser.
- ArcticRobot, on 03/22/2009, -8/+119Crashed on vista x64. Tomorrow I will try it on XP x32.
- GoKings, on 03/23/2009, -12/+114My Firefox crashed when I came on to Digg yesterday. I should have screen-shotted it and said HUGE FIREFOX FAIL - Not even compatible with Digg
- Octanus, on 03/22/2009, -2/+101Didn't crash, but didn't pass.
20/100 for normal mode
13/100 for compatibility mode - Ev3nt372, on 03/23/2009, -5/+87My Results under Vista x64
IE8 (x86) Normal mode: 12/100
IE8 (x86) Compatibility mode: 13/100
IE8 (x64) Normal mode: 20/100
IE8 (x64) Compatibility mode: 13/100
Firefox 3.1 Beta 3: 91/100
I got no crashes at all. - stewacide, on 03/23/2009, -3/+65Compatibility mode doesn't matter since it's broken by design.
- danillum, on 03/23/2009, -2/+62Market share is not a benchmark for quality.
- drewsky208, on 03/23/2009, -4/+59Crashed on vista x64 here too, so it's not your computer that's borked, it is IE on 64
- theexitwound, on 03/23/2009, -22/+70Opera 10 - 100/100.
- IFEice, on 03/23/2009, -6/+52"Microsoft, developers of the Internet Explorer browser, said that Acid3 does not map to the goal of Internet Explorer 8 and that IE8 will improve only some of the standards being tested by Acid3.[17]"
- Culyt, on 03/23/2009, -4/+44That is pretty much how they feel about all standards...
- mattyx, on 03/23/2009, -15/+55Since when does IE = web standards (ignoring the crash)?
- ianweller, on 03/22/2009, -9/+48And now for a huge test-off, brought to you by Digg commenters! :o
- zeptobyte, on 03/23/2009, -9/+47It's fine because 20/100 wasn't even remotely the issue being addressed here?
- elmuerte17, on 03/23/2009, -2/+38Every other website looks fine because web developers spend extra time to make pages display the same in Internet Explorer as they do in standards-compliant browsers.
- rdoger6424, on 03/23/2009, -2/+37Lynx 2.8.5 0/100
- Ommatidia, on 03/23/2009, -3/+37@ Culyt
Are you ***** retarded?
Got robbed? You're talking about IE. Just three days ago they finally released a browser that is completely CSS 2 compliant. CSS 2 became a standard in 1998.
Got robbed? No.
Dicked around for 11 years (as the world's primary browser)? Yes. - inactive, on 03/23/2009, -4/+37Safari 4 100/100
Chrome 2.06.156.1 100/100
IE8 19/100 - laser103, on 03/23/2009, -2/+35It's bundled with Windows...
- paulmer2003, on 03/23/2009, -12/+45Protip: All of our boxes don't have the same specs, quite a range of hardware (32bit v 64bit, various device drivers, etc) and software (win xp 32/x64, various versions of vista, win 7), etc.
Thus, what might make another machine crash might not make yours crash.
You, buried as inaccurate. - ButterLoyalist, on 03/23/2009, -8/+38viruses*
http://www.indopedia.org/Plural_of_virus.html - kaje, on 03/23/2009, -3/+32Obvious troll is obvious.
- inactive, on 03/23/2009, -7/+36@Qumahlin
Because this test has nothing to do with OS or Hardware, I ran the acid 3 on an old potato I had under the sink.
It didn't work. - drex8, on 03/23/2009, -1/+29IE 6 - 110/100
- gwellington, on 03/23/2009, -3/+30http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ACID3
- ByteGuerilla, on 03/23/2009, -1/+27"In all fairness they did kind of get robbed. No sooner than when they announced ACID2 compatibility then ACID3 come out (Kinda seems to me like it came out because of it)."
It did. The whole point of the ACID tests is to target things that browsers aren't doing right, and build a test to highlight these. The idea is that if a browser reaches 100/100, the next version of ACID should be imminent. - yzerman, on 03/23/2009, -4/+27Try working for a rather large business whos app devs and 90% of the apps we run that are web base require authentication which only IE provides transaparently.
It pisses me off to no end I have to still use IE for work just because none of the other browser vendors can figure out how to call a stupid authentication API. - ligyron, on 03/23/2009, -13/+34Doesn't matter! It's a screenshot of something Microsoft-related crashing with "FAIL" text. DIGG
And for the record, I just tested it with IE8 on Win7. No crash - Khast, on 03/23/2009, -3/+24Browser scores on Wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3
only the recent versions of Opera, Safari, Chrome were the only 100/100 scores on the list. - ligyron, on 03/23/2009, -5/+26I think you mean Apple-bash. Safari isn't Mac-specific
- GreatDrok, on 03/23/2009, -5/+25Safari 4 beta 100/100
Been using it as my daily browser since release and it is really nice. Fast too. - ButterLoyalist, on 03/23/2009, -1/+21viri*
- newbill123, on 03/23/2009, -4/+24You're right that it doesn't have direct value for users, yet.
But it does for developers. Standards which have been stable for years but still not implemented consistently (or even at all) seem to form the basis of these tests. Since they caught the public's attention, some browser makers have gone out of their way to implement and correct their attempts.
Having a metric that the public watches has increased the quality of support for the edge cases of CSS2, SVG, and international text support. It's not an end in itself, but it has increased the adoption of many less-than-common edge cases which drive developers so insane. - Appleologist, on 03/23/2009, -0/+19Very interesting that IE gets different scores on different platforms…I did not know that.
- inactive, on 03/23/2009, -2/+21Microsoft: WE ARE THE STANDARDS. FTW!
- NicoNicoNico, on 03/23/2009, -2/+20Because this is their version of trying.
- MaxD, on 03/23/2009, -2/+20Rezivor: Apple software has historically been so crappy on a PC that it would take something huge to convince me to even try Safari on a Windows machine.
- FKnight, on 03/23/2009, -2/+20I got pwned on this thread.
- sickthoughts, on 03/23/2009, -0/+17terrible analogy
- paradoxum, on 03/23/2009, -1/+18The test is made by the folks that develop the standards. The test checks if your browser conforms to these standards.
This does not "make the browser *****" because it can't run it, at least not from the perspective of a user. This does make it *****, however, from the perspective of the developers that are forced to write several versions of their code and spend hours of time making content appear the same on standards-compliant browsers and on IE. - Swift2, on 03/23/2009, -7/+24This is MS's Achilles heel. The plan, and it seemed to be working, was to deliberately make a non-standard browser -- even for its day -- and out of sheer market power, to wipe out Netscape and anyone else. As a result, for years developers had to write one set of code for IE and one for those who adhere to standards. So what does it matter? Because you want browsers to be secure -- no crap that easily allows hijacks by hackers, and you want fast and accurate rendering, even more important as web standards develop. And yes, developers need to get a break, to be able to write one version of a website, and have that rendered correctly on all OSes, all platforms.
I was quite happy to see Safari 4 get 100, because it means the day of Microsoft setting standards in browsing are just about over. - Macintoshreader, on 03/23/2009, -2/+19No, but it's a pain in the ass for web developers to develop for a rendering engine—Trident—that has horrible web standards and therefore websites that have JavaScript or XML won't load as fast and/or may sometimes not work as desired.
- ThatGeek, on 03/23/2009, -3/+19but the others dont fail so miserably
w3 maintains the acid tests. w3 is basically god of the internets, so yeah, god created it - m3arvk, on 03/23/2009, -4/+20Wasn't Safari the easiest browser to hack?
- STKD, on 03/23/2009, -3/+19In that it didn't crash?
- byrdboy, on 03/23/2009, -0/+16You are correct. If that were not the case, Chevy S-10 trucks and Ford F-150's would be the highest quality trucks in existence.
- t0x2c, on 03/23/2009, -1/+17Firefox 3.1b3 scores 93
Minefield (alpha 2?) scores 92
IE 8 scores 20
Konqueror 3.5.10 scores 41, but i couldn't even read the score because there was a weird red dog in the way with a scroll bar. -
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