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Comment Some insight regarding the Acid 3 Test (Score 5, Informative) 308

I found this information regarding the Acid 3 test on a Webkit developer's site (http://webkit.org/blog/158/the-acid-3-test/) As much as I hate to debunk any article bashing IE, here is the information from the article:

If you run Acid 3 on the shipping versions of current browsers (Firefox 2, Safari 3, Opera 9, IE7), you'll see that they all score quite low. For example Safari 3 scores a 39/100. This percentage score is a bit misleading however. The situation with all four browser engines really isn't that bad. You can think of the Acid 3 test as consisting of 100 individual test suites. In order for a browser engine to claim one of these precious 100 points, it has to pass a whole battery of tests around a specific standard. In other words it's like the browser is being asked to take 100 separate exams and score an A+ on each test in order to get any credit at all. The reality is that all of the browsers are doing much better than their scores would have you believe, since the engines are often passing a majority of the subtests and experiencing minor failures that cost them the point for that section.

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