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The Acid3 test is a web test page from the Web Standards Project that checks a web browser's compliance with elements of various web standards, particularly the Document Object Model (DOM) and JavaScript.

Key facts

Website.name
Acid3
Website.screenshot
Acid3 Reference SVG.svg
Website.caption
The reference rendering for Acid3
Website.commercial
No
Website.type
Web standards test
Website.language
English
Website.registration
No
Website.owner
The Web Standards Project
Website.creator
Ian Hickson
Website.current_status
Online

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Encyclopedic overview

13 sections
Contents
  • Test
  • Detailed results
  • Development and impact
  • Chrome, Presto and WebKit based browsers
  • Firefox
  • Internet Explorer
  • Criticism
  • September 2011 test changes
  • Standards tested
  • Passing conditions
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

The Acid3 test is a web test page from the Web Standards Project that checks a web browser's compliance with elements of various web standards, particularly the Document Object Model (DOM) and JavaScript.

If the test is successful, the results of the Acid3 test will display a gradually increasing fraction counter below a series of colored rectangles. The number of subtests passed will indicate the percentage that will be displayed on the screen. This percentage does not represent an actual percentage of conformance as the test does not really keep track of the subtests that were actually started (100 is assumed). Moreover, the browser also has to render the page exactly as the reference page is rendered in the same browser. Like the text of the Acid2 test, the text of the Acid3 reference rendering is not a bitmap, in order to allow for certain differences in font rendering.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Acid3” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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