Acid3 Test Simplified; All Modern Browsers Score 100
All current modern browsers, including IE9, IE10, Chrome 14-16, Firefox 6-8 and Opera 11, now score a perfect 100/100 result.
According to Ian Hickson, who maintains the Acidtests website, there have been several revisions, including SVG Fonts, a feature that was criticized by Mozilla. Hickson said that changes also affected SMIL animations, Xlink as well as DOM Range. Overall, it appears that the developers cleaned up the test and removed antiquated and unusual web technologies. I can't help but feel that much of the changes are a late reply to criticism that has persisted over the past two years.
Acid3 itself is more than three years old and could use an update, possibly in the HTML5 range where the support of confirmed and planned technologies is pretty much a mess. Since all major browsers now achieve a perfect score in Acid3, there may be little reason to use Acid3 in comparison tests at this time.
Really it's so easy to buy "mind' of people...
...sigh, they didn't adjust the test so FF and IE could pass, they removed antiquated and unnecessary SVG font requirements that have nothing to do with properly rendering modern web pages.
This is why FF has been stuck at 97% for what seems like forever. It would've been a pointless waste of time to implement a small subset of the SVG spec just to pass Acid 3 , which is basically the only reason to do it (but Opera developers seems to think otherwise). The creators of the Acid test recognized this issue and, among other revisions, removed these SVG font requirements, although it took them a while to do so.
http://limi.net/articles/firefox-acid3/
Acid 3 is a specification now?... lol, that's news to me.
FF6 uses a bit less than that, at least for me and I use TONS of add-ons. Link at the bottom of post. Also, FF is making FF7-8 30% or so more mem efficient than FF5. so expect to see that soon, also in a link.
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e241/MCstrick/FFmemuse.png
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/firefox-7-memory-improvements,news-12148.html
An Opera dev, Håkon Wium Lie, was one of the people behind the recent change to the Acid 3 test.
They just removed useless, outdated or very rare crap that Acid3 was testing for.
Not so that Firefox and IE got 100/100.
Dragonsqrrl hit it spot on.
Read this.
"Oh, the students aren't passing as much now? DUMB DOWN THE TESTS!"
"So, are more kids are passing now? PROBLEM SOLVED!"