Last week I returned to Gravytrain Limited's HQ to conduct and report on the The Acid Test When applied to toady's most popular browsers. The Acid Tests were brought in to create an environment that allowed browsers to adhere to the same set of rules, ensuring that  when users view the web, the web pages viewed will all render the same way regardless of which browser is being used.

Hmmmm... So who would ignore these rules and continue to build such a Frankenstein of a browser? Well there is no hiding when Gravytrain reveals it's findings from applying the Acid tests to todays leading web browsers.

You can apply this test yourself if you wish. Simply follow the links set out below and view them in the browsers you wish to test, while comoparing with the correct  examples ilustrated later in this article.

Acid test 1 - http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/CSS1/current/test5526c.htm

Acid test 2 - http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html#top

Acid test 3 - http://acid3.acidtests.org/

Here is how the tests should appear when correctly rendered in a browser:


Gravytrain Limited's finding from the Acid Tests:

Test 1 - Internet Explorer 6 & 7, FireFox 3.0 & 2, Safari and Opera all pass

Test 2 - 
Acid Test 3

This is designed to test browsers abilities to render DHTML and loads an animation the score is marked out of 100 and the results were as follows:

Safari: 87/100

Opera: 84/100

Internet Explorer 7: 14/100 (!!!!!)

Internet Explorer 6: Causes a script error and crashes browser

Fire Fox3: 71/100

Google Chrome:  78/100


Conclusion

Yep you guessed once again it's Microsoft responsible for rushing ahead and building Frankensteins and unleashing  it into the world of suffering web users. Bad IE!!!!