Round 8: Acid Test 2
As the results below show, this is a pretty painful test for the IE7 beta. The Acid Test 2 is designed by the folks at webstandards.org to push the limits of HTML, CSS, and PNG support in browsers. As of writing, Apple’s Safari [Safari is based on the Konqueror code base, ed.] and the open source browser Konqueror are the only browsers to correctly render this page.
IE7’s painfully rendition of the Acid Test 2 Ouch
Now, to be fair, the Firefox 1.5 beta 1 also fails the acid test. Maybe not quite as painful as IE7, but it isn’t pretty either.
Firefox 1.5 beta 1 tries its hand at the Acid Test 2 A little better
Now for reference, here’s what it should look like.
Correctly rendered Acid Test 2 If you were using Safari, you would see this.
