noel alanguilan

web standards project press release:

The Acid3 Test is designed to test specifications for Web 2.0, and exposes potential flaws in implementations of the public ECMAScript 262 and W3C Document Object Model 2 standards. Collectively known as DOM Scripting, it is these technologies that enable advanced page interactivity and power many advanced web applications such as web-based email and online office applications.

in other words, its a test to check if the browser you’re using follows web standards — how it presents the web page to you. ideally, a standards-compliant web page would look the same when rendered on different standards-compliant browsers. but we all know that is not always the case.

if you want to test your browser for yourself, the links are below along with the reference rendering (how the page should look like). acid 3 is for the newer standards and most current browsers would fail. acid 2 is for the most used standards today.

acid 3 test | acid 3 reference
acid 2 test | acid 2 reference

so why is this important? for me, its an indicator on how much i should trust the browser i’m using.

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