Talk:Acid3

Article bias
Comparing an old version of IE against a modern version of Chrome suggests that Chrome is stds compliant when IE is not. The issue is easily fixed by showing IE8 vs IE11, or an old version of Chrome vs a new version of Chrome. 49.195.148.241 (talk) 03:05, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
 * There is no such comparing in the text, at least now. Pallinger (talk) 08:10, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Article is extremely biased
The use of IE to demonstrate a poor Acid3 score is extremely biased. Maybe use some older, lesser known browser for this example that doesn't have such an intense rivalry with Firefox. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.65.91.78 (talk) 08:49, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
 * If you refer to the picture, they show the result of the test around the time the test was created, and show the results for the three major desktop browsers. You can add additional browsers's screenshots that you know, but they will not be as relevant as these three. I would not call this biased. Pallinger (talk) 08:17, 5 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Mmmhhh… two anonymous messages, almost the same, at least one with Fort Lauderdale IP (where Microsoft has a major headquarter) complaining about alleged against Microsoft bias…
 * It looks suspicious at least. It means nothing at the time to evaluate the alleged non-neutrality; but it means a lot outside: we have to take care of this "contributions".
 * The Ft. Lauderdale IP has some other suspicious edits, like this one. And also some strange edits like this :O.

Eloy (talk) 08:19, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

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Defunct
All three Acid tests originally hosted at acidtests.org are no longer present. Hairy Dude (talk) 17:13, 3 January 2022 (UTC)


 * I don't understand what you mean. When I go to http://acid3.acidtests.org/ in my FF browser I get an Acid3 test showing me a result of 97/100. What exact test (or tests) are you missing? &mdash; JohnFromPinckney (talk / edits) 20:54, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Updates and History Classifications
All these discussions are nice and dandy when it comes to describe the acidtest3.org web page and its use, but insofar as the results displayed, the "contemporary" explanations at the end of the paragraphs always become antiquated after a few years pass by! For example, stating that "Both IE 11 and Edge pass with 100/100." in 2014 (or whenever) is nowadays (in 2022) ERRONEOUS! For whatever reason, my own Edge shows 97/100, as do most of my other browsers; of course, there may be other reasons why they don't pass with 100/100 but without MORE DETAILS, it's irrelevant to write it like so and only contributes to wikipedia's reputation about subjective and/or inaccurate contents! Someone with more experience and skills than me should remedy to that - and it'd help if the person is also as objective as possible! (I'm just saying...) — Preceding unsigned comment added by AzraelDrums (talk • contribs) 21:08, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Acid3 successor "WPT"
There has been an effort by some W3C and Google folk, from what I gather, to support more recent browser features in the Acid3 test. The test seems to be under a "Web Platform Tests" project (WPT), and is available at http://w3c-test.org/acid/acid3/test.html (HTTP seems to be a requirement for 100/100 instead of HTTPS; browser extensions may mess up results), or alternatively on wpt.live instead of w3c-test.org (as they are mirrors).

Anyway, it might be worth a mention on the article. I'm not sure how it'd be included, though; this article talks about the history of the original Acid3 test, and slapping a mention of the updated version (seemingly by different authors) somewhere feels like it wouldn't belong. This is worsened by the fact that the WPT apparently include other tests beyond the Acid3 test. So, I don't know. The whole of the project might be worthy an article of its own. — Avelludo (Talk / Contribs / Log) 03:02, 30 March 2022 (UTC)