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(Unverified)Dec 4th 2008 2:59PM

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"And if the two most popular web browsers on the face of the earth don't fully meet these web standards, what good are they exactly?"

Because the Acid3 test was built specifically to fail on the most popular browsers in order to see marked improvement in the future. Add that to the fact Acid3 only came out 8 months ago, when Gecko was at 52/100 and Trident was at 14/100.

Now they're 93/100 and 21/100 respectively. Okay so IE isn't improving that much, but Firefox is well on its way.

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(Unverified)Dec 4th 2008 7:40PM

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The score isn't very relavent, the tests stop as soon as one case fails, so it 20/100 doesn't mean you failed 80 tests, it just means the 21st one failed as opposed to a later one.

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QuanDec 5th 2008 7:55AM

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Eli: No they don't

The first test the nightly build of Firefox fails is test 70 and it scores 97/100. So yes the number is valid, also the visual is quite important as well, there's a lot of uncounted tests through visual behavior which IE fails pretty dramatically.

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