Acid 2 test: a dreadful failure

It was good to see that the new build of Safari passes the Acid2 test for standards compliance.

Opera and Firefox come close, but one browser in particular still fails it dismally.

I pointed Netscape 4.07 at the test page, and was horrified to see the results:

dreadful old browser with broken images and bits of text

Honestly, if those folks at Netscape don’t raise their game, they’re going to see their market dominance wither, you mark my words.

Anyone else noticed any CSS problems with Netscape 4?

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8 Responses to “Acid 2 test: a dreadful failure”

  1. Comment by /T

    I think this test is broken - Lynx doesn’t display any of the images

    November 2nd, 2005 at 9:40 am

  2. Comment by Ian Lloyd

    There’s a new version of Netscape? I keep getting script errors in v3.04. Maybe I should ‘upgrade’

    November 2nd, 2005 at 12:12 pm

  3. Comment by djn

    The test is badly broken indeed. I’ve just upgraded to the very last version of Mosaic and it keeps crashing…

    November 2nd, 2005 at 2:24 pm

  4. Comment by Matt Machell

    Pah! Non of this new fangled Netscrape for me. Mosaic all the way.

    ;)

    November 2nd, 2005 at 2:33 pm

  5. Comment by Jim

    Does it work in Amaya?

    November 3rd, 2005 at 3:21 pm

  6. Comment by Shez

    Safari so goodie…

    November 4th, 2005 at 9:05 pm

  7. Comment by trovster

    Haha, that makes IEs-fat-faced Acid2 Test attempt amazing. Let us just be thankful! IE doesn’t seem so bad now…

    November 13th, 2005 at 2:09 pm

  8. Comment by Xrew

    I have checked up on this test Opera v. 9.0, Firefox v1.4, and IE v. 6. Best results showned Opera, after that Firefox. The Microsoft`s production appeared at “top”, as usually.

    December 6th, 2005 at 9:15 am

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