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DailyTech - Acid3 Test Unleashed, Murders Every Current Browser
The acid test 3. Thus far it's destroyed every browser known to man!
A new acid test has arrived:
DailyTech - Acid3 Test Unleashed, Murders Every Current Browser
The acid test 3. Thus far it's destroyed every browser known to man!
Silly question time.
If the new "standards" test isn't passable by any current browser, doesn't that really mean that the standards are wrong and need revising or that the test impliments them improperly...
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This is bunny and friends. He is fed up waiting for everyone to help him out, and decided to help himself instead!
Quite.
They aren't exactly standards if nothing supports them
Browsers should support whatever standards they state they support. Currently Acid3 includes a lot of proposed or future standards that no browser claims to support. A development build of Firefox 3 beta passes something like 87 out of the 100 tests, but they're not going to support the webfont standard that Acid3 tests until Firefox 4.
Anyone tried it in IE8 beta 1?
noooOriginally Posted by Stringent
Anyone tried it in IE8 beta 1?
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I would have done but the install of IE8 killed my IE6 install (without asking permission - it upgraded it to IE7) and as a web designer, that's unacceptable!
Results over at ars technica indicate it gets 17/100. Still, at least it renders Acid2 correctly - it's a start right?Anyone tried it in IE8 beta 1?
Which is precisely why I have instances XP running through Virtual PC. It's a shame Multiple IE doesn't work work with Vista - the page does have a link to running IE7 in standalone mode so perhaps that might help.
46/100 with Opera@USB 9.26
Crosshair VIII Hero (WIFI), 3900x, 32GB DDR4, Many SSDs, EVGA FTW3 3090, Ethoo 719
Isn't that time consuming? Running Virtual PCs? I have IE6 and stand alone IE7 - both work a treat. For IE.
I use them all the time for testing (particularly for other languages/legacy XP users) and they're pretty quick actually
Crosshair VIII Hero (WIFI), 3900x, 32GB DDR4, Many SSDs, EVGA FTW3 3090, Ethoo 719
Time consuming? Granted it takes a little time to get them set up to the way I need but once they're up and running it's no different to having additional browser instances; I just point the browsers to my local web server where my dev stuff is published. I prefer doing it that way as I can always access a clean system.
Oh, if you prefer to stick with legit stuff, Microsoft release time limited Virtual PC images containing IE6, 7 and 8 - the current batch expire June 3rd but they've been supporting this for quite some time so will likely refresh them before that date.
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ok I downloaded the files and extracted them into VHD files, but the virtual pc program doesn't recognise them?!
Just did a test with the file contained within IE8_VPC.exe using Virtual PC 2007 (also free from MS).
- Create a virtual machine
- Set the name and location
- Define the OS
- And the memory
- Choose "An existing virtual hard disk"
- Point to the extracted VHD file
- Boot the new VPC instance
Which file did you try and are you using VPC 2007?
Last edited by pauldarkside; 07-03-2008 at 04:03 PM. Reason: Bad tense
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