ThisSiteHasLostItsCharm Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 what exactly does the acid test mean for real browsing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillz Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 what exactly does the acid test mean for real browsing? Not much, to be quite honest. IE barely complies to any web standards and look how little real-world effect it has had on people. Web standards, Acid, etc. are only going to matter once IE, the most dominant browser, fully complies with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sub_Zero_Alchemist Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 I'm getting "only" 92 in 3.6 Beta 4, and I have only the Adblock Plus extension installed. Well (it's working fine for me at least) I'm getting a 94 in 3.6 Beta 4 and the only extension i have is DownloadHelper 4.6.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Explore Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 And Chrome scores a perfect aswell. and Safari Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xiphi Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 I'm getting "only" 92 in 3.6 Beta 4, and I have only the Adblock Plus extension installed. I get a 94 as long as Adblock is disabled on that page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagisan Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 Not much, to be quite honest.IE barely complies to any web standards and look how little real-world effect it has had on people. Web standards, Acid, etc. are only going to matter once IE, the most dominant browser, fully complies with them. The reason IEs lack of web standards has little effect on real-world websites is because as you mention it is the most dominant browser due to it being included by default in Windows, 90% of Windows users do not know better and (crappy) web developers code to IE standards not web standards. That being said I agree that web standards will only matter to a majority of web developers when their largest userbase is using a browser that complies with all those standards, otherwise their site is going to look like crap and people aren't going to visit it. Its sad really, the most dominant browser has the least web standards support, most developers sadly develop for the majority, whether it supports proper standards or not.....we either need to get MS to get IE up to speed on web standards or we need to get IE out of the hands of the majority so developers will start following web standards.....the latter would probably be the better idea as if it could be done quickly the industry will not be following IE standards, instead MS will actually get to work and improve IE to meet the web standards, making it a better browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted November 30, 2009 Veteran Share Posted November 30, 2009 MS have been improving IE, IE6 sucks, IE7 and 8 not so much, and IE9's going to start supporting CSS3 features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagisan Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 MS have been improving IE, IE6 sucks, IE7 and 8 not so much, and IE9's going to start supporting CSS3 features. Yes, they are, but much more slowly than any other major browser out there. Look at FF, Chrome, Opera, Safari and any other big-name browser, they ALL have better web standards support than even IE8 (overall), why is MS moving so slowly in getting proper web standard support? They still have one of the most-used browsers, they shouldn't be ignoring web standard support simply because they have the largest market share without supporting most/all of the web standards.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalint Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 Chrome is perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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