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Microsoft faces a web-standards Acid test

Microsoft faces a web-standards Acid test

Acid2, a complex web-browser test page that shows a smiley face when... Read more

25 January, 2008 by Håkon Wium Lie

W3C releases draft of HTML 5

...In December 2007, Microsoft claimed Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) correctly passed the Acid2 browser test, a part of the Web Standards Project. "Successfully rendering Acid2... Read more

25 January, 2008 by Adrian Bridgwater

Can IE7 pass the Acid2 test

...a challenge to Microsoft. We will produce a test page, code-named Acid2, that will actively use features Web designers crave, such as fixed positioning... Read more

18 March, 2005 by Hakon Wium Lie

Apple updates OS X

...Also, an update to Safari now allows the browser to pass the Acid2 Web standard compatibility test. The update is available via Mac OS X... Read more

1 November, 2005 by Ina Fried
Internet Explorer 8: features & benchmarks

Internet Explorer 8: features & benchmarks

...HTML 4.01 and CSS 2.1. The browser also passes the Acid2 rendering test Read more

19 March, 2009 by Joachim Kaufmann and Kai Schmerer
Firefox 3

Firefox 3

...thanks to the new Gekko 1.9 engine. Firefox 3 passes the Acid2 Browser Test, along with Safari 3 and Opera 9. The test, designed... Read more

18 June, 2008 by Robert Vamosi
Safari 3.0 for Windows (Public Beta)

Safari 3.0 for Windows (Public Beta)

...category. On standards, Safari rocks. It has passed what's called the Acid2 test, a test designed by the Web Standards Project. And, if you... Read more

12 June, 2007 by Robert Vamosi

Firefox 3 on the horizon

...the latest build released already is said to have passed the CSS Acid2 test. Although Opera, Safari have already achieved this it's a big... Read more

23 January, 2007

My FireFox 2.0 Review

...release has impressed as it's the first browser to pass the Acid2 test. So is FF2.0 worth the download. Well if you haven... Read more

31 October, 2006

Firefox 2

Firefox 2 is a winner, beating Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 on security, features and overall cool factor and deserving our Editors' Choice award. Read more

28 October, 2006 by Robert Vamosi

Internet Explorer 7

IE 7 was Microsoft's one chance to leapfrog ahead of the competition, but the company has only barely caught sight of the current front-runners. For more features and greater security, switch to Mozilla Firefox. Read more

19 October, 2006 by Robert Vamosi

KDE browser pips Firefox in Web standards test

...on Tuesday that the browser in KDE 3.5 has passed the Acid2 test from the Web Standards Project (WaSP). This test examines a browser... Read more

30 November, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Honesty is the best policy for all the Web

The fact that IE7 will fail the Acid2 Web test page is nothing notable. The fact that Microsoft is saying... Read more

2 August, 2005 by Leader

IE7 to fail standards test

...its browser blog, Microsoft acknowledged that IE 7 would not pass the Acid2 test from the Web Standards Project (WaSP), which examines a browser's... Read more

2 August, 2005 by Paul Festa

Microsoft throws IE7 standards bone to developers

...co-authored CSS. "The big question is: Will IE 7 pass the Acid2 test? I proposed the Acid2 challenge... and it has later been published... Read more

26 April, 2005 by Paul Festa

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