No single browser is fully standards compliant. Opera still doesn't have decent CSS 3 support and I often see it misrender pages that will otherwise render fine in Gecko browsers. But, it works, and I still like its interface much better than Seamonkey's or Firefox's.

 

 

 

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Hi,
I just wanted to let you know about how bad most web browsers really do when it comes to being standard compliant. This simple test allows you to check whether yours really has any web rendering flaw.
Try it here: http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html
By the way, the results for the most important browsers:
- Internet Explorer 6 :: Fails (Badly!)
- Internet Explorer 7 :: Fails (Badly!)
- Mozilla Firefox 1, 1.5, 2.0.0.X :: Fails
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Alpha 2 or superior :: Passes
- Opera 9.X :: Passes
- Konqueror 3.5 :: Passes
- Safari 2.0.3 :: Passes
- Netscape 7.2 :: Fails
Interesting, huh?
More on it on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid2

 

 

 

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firefox 2.0.0.5

safari for windows


Neither of them are w3c Standards compliant

FF3 Alpha will be, though, and Safari for the mac is already compliant. Slowly, but surely, it seems, the browser wars are coming to an end. At least they appear to be heading towards a Universal Standard. CSS3 is on its way, too.

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There is one standard, but the problem is it changes so much that no browser can ever have 100% HTML and CSS rendered properly. However, it does seem that they're starting to obey standards more. I hope that there aren't any drastic changes that would screw this up. The only one I can think of that would sort of screw everything up is if everything went onto true XHTML mode (when the document is sent as application+xml/xhtml rather than html), which would force Microsoft to update IE because it can't support even this simple standard.

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They put errors in the CSS code to see if the browser would properly ignore the bad coding. it's sorta like when you are skimming a word seek puzzle. if you're using english correctly you'll ignore the almost words but if you're not you'll use invalid words.

Each browsers interprets the page differently(non standardly), so it appears different. if you've done much web development or design you know that firefox and IE don't usually agree unless you add a bunch of code that one ignores and the other picks up on.

a good example of this is css induced transparency. for IE you have to use a special extra function to make it work (the function is ignored by all the rest of the browsers) because IE doesn't bother using the normal transparency commands. the same is true for making rounded corners on images.

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Maybe I'm a bit innocent but I can't believe that years pass and web browsers are still so poor when it comes to standards. It's sad that Firefox did it so bad, let's hope version 3 will be better, because some years ago it didn't seem to matter that you made a website complying with standards... because most people used Explorer and you had to make it thinking that most people wasn't able to think by themselves and install another browser different to the one that their awful OS brought.

I think there should be some laws because microsoft is harming seriously web design with their infamous browsers... and they don't seem to worry much about it. At least Firefox is trying to improve its compatibility, but the purpose of new explorer versions is only to copy cool features from other browsers... in copying Microsoft are the kings, no doubt.

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Maybe I'm a bit innocent but I can't believe that years pass and web browsers are still so poor when it comes to standards. It's sad that Firefox did it so bad, let's hope version 3 will be better, because some years ago it didn't seem to matter that you made a website complying with standards... because most people used Explorer and you had to make it thinking that most people wasn't able to think by themselves and install another browser different to the one that their awful OS brought.

I think there should be some laws because microsoft is harming seriously web design with their infamous browsers... and they don't seem to worry much about it. At least Firefox is trying to improve its compatibility, but the purpose of new explorer versions is only to copy cool features from other browsers... in copying Microsoft are the kings, no doubt.

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Maybe I'm a bit innocent but I can't believe that years pass and web browsers are still so poor when it comes to standards. It's sad that Firefox did it so bad, let's hope version 3 will be better, because some years ago it didn't seem to matter that you made a website complying with standards... because most people used Explorer and you had to make it thinking that most people wasn't able to think by themselves and install another browser different to the one that their awful OS brought.

I think there should be some laws because microsoft is harming seriously web design with their infamous browsers... and they don't seem to worry much about it. At least Firefox is trying to improve its compatibility, but the purpose of new explorer versions is only to copy cool features from other browsers... in copying Microsoft are the kings, no doubt.

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dude they didn't have to run a big test just to say IE6 sucks we already knew that. lol

so do you know when firefox 3 comes out???

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