Hoy os presento el Acid3 Test, una aplicación web que nos permite conocer si el navegador con el que trabajamos cumple las especificaciones de los estandares web del W3C, es decir si el navegador nos va a mostrar las páginas de la misma forma que fueron diseñadas y programadas, sin errores de estilo y formato, como puede ser un menú que se muestra cortado o mal alineado. Esto se debe a que muchos programadores a la hora de diseñar las páginas no cumplen el estandar W3C.

Si nuestro navegador nos da un resultado del 100/100 en el test podemos estar seguros de que las páginas se muestran como son originalmente, en caso de no pasar el test puede no ocurrir lo mismo, no todas fallan.

Al hacer pruebas con los distintos navegadores los resultados son de lo más sorprendente, sobre todo para Internet Explorer que no alcanza en ninguna de sus versiones el mínimo razonable.

Safari fue el primer navegador que pudo superar el Acid3 por completo.
Google Chrome 2 Beta supera al 100% la prueba. Su version Beta 1 no supero la prueba.
Opera 10 Alpha supera al 100% la prueba.

Futuro prometedor para Opera en su última versión, que deja claro la supremacía sobre otros navegadores, aunque funcionalmente desconocido para la mayoría que pasan de largo por Opera. Todo un gran navegador en espera de adeptos.

Podemos ejecutar Acid3 Test desde ordenadores bajo Linux, os dejo los resultados de los navegadores testados bajo Linux:

Comprueba si tu navegador cumple : http://acid3.acidtests.org/

Fuente comparativa: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3

An article I read recently discusses the results of testing several of the top browsers on PC and Mac platforms and particularly, how they rendered fonts. Safari rated poorly in this department but fared strongly in some other areas. The 2 browsers that scored the highest in these tests were Opera’s  latest version for Windows (9.63) as well as the latest version of Firefox (3.0) for Windows.  IE was still the favorite among many mainly due to it’s clear-type font presentation. 

In addition, Vista out performed Mac with most browsers when it came to font rendering. I personally believe that the font style has a great deal to do with it, some appear better than others on various platforms.  The Acid2 project testing continues and involves many facets, i.e. rendering speed, so the results are not definitive at this point in time.

I believe the following Link contains the related article: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000884.html

Your opinion would be appreciated!  Feel free to enter a response in the following poll:

Steve D.

I’m looking at you, Johan. Read this carefuly.

So, if the first question that came to your head when you saw the title is “What plight?” you are likely using Internet Exploder. What exactly do web designers have for problems, there are new versions of CSS, SVG graphics are becoming more common, and flash is getting more advanced all the time along with browser capabilities. So we can do more, right? We can make more exciting and interesting designs, can’t we? And the average screen size is getting bigger all the time, allowing us to use the excess of space…
Right?

No. Why not? Internet Explorer. Especially version 6. It does not support the latest CSS standards, it does not pass an acid2 test, let alone acid3. It doesn’t even support .GIF or .PNG transparancy. Yeah. For n00bs, that means that it basically is not capable of displaying a modern web page. This leaves us with 3 options:

This can be used, for example, to make even Internet Exploder 6 display full, 8 bit PNG transparancy. Unfortunately, these libraries are not in widespread use, (Which makes getting support for them very difficult) and they slow the webpage down. A lot.

This way, it’ll work with everything, seeing as IE6 is the lowest still in widespread use, but there are several disadvantages. Like that our designs can’t be as dynamic or complicated as we want. And it takes hours to make a design IE6 compatible because of IE’s quirks.

I wouldn’t put this past myself. Why work for IE when you can use PHP to leave out IE entirely? Just make it display a message like “Go get a real browser, you loser.”
So the next time you start up IE, I want you to go to http://www.firefox.com/ . Download Firefox. Use it. You can’t say you don’t have a reason.

Acid3 Test

Acid3 es la prueba que pone a temblar a algunos de los navegadore web, esta realiza un analisis sobre los estandares que deben cumplir, entre el mas riguroso esta el examen Javascript. Acid3 fue desarrollado por Ian Hickson, creador del Acid2, aunque este último esta enfocado casi exclusivamente a crear pruebas a las hojas de estilo. Actualmente son pocos que pasan con honores esta prueba, resumiendo: solo Opera ha podido pasar con mención honorífica al obtener 100 de calificación.

Premiación:

1. Opera 100/100

2. Firefox 89/100

3. Google Chrome 79/100

4. Konqueror 78/100

5. Internet Explorer 7 14/100 (IE 8 no fue incluido ya que fue imposible instalarlo)

prueba Acid3 test

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IE8 - Acid2 Pass

IE8 - Acid2 Fail (Compatibility Mode)

IE8 - Acid3 Fail

IE8 - Acid3 Fail (Compatibility Mode)

]]> http://webtropic.cc/2008/09/03/google-chrome-and-standards-compliance/ Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:01:58 +0000 Nikos Anagnostou http://webtropic.cc/2008/09/03/google-chrome-and-standards-compliance/

A new kid is on the block: since Monday morning Google’s new browser, Chrome,  has been the most hot discussion topic on the internet. And, I guess, lots of people, all over the world,, are punching keys franticaly as we ’speak’ , to test it.

Here is my contribution to the buzz.  How does the new browser behave in terms of standards compatibility? Let’s take the tests.

ACID2 gives

Which means 100% compatibility.

ACID3 gives :

which means 78% compliance. Were it 100% it should look  like this:

How do these results compare to the browsers on the market? I have run the same test on all the known browsers that pass the ACID2 test  and here are the results. All the test were run on a Windows XP with SP2.

So Chrome does a fairly good job in ACID3, but still trails Opera.

Update: I just spotted an article on CNET about Chrome’s standards compliance.Instead of comparing IE8 it compares IE7 on the Acid3 test and gives a result of 14% which I could not confirm.  The acid servers were very slow to respond but when they did I just got a 12% as in IE8.

As of quite recently, word of Google’s new browser, Google Chrome, has made its rounds of the internet, inspiring both hype and hatred. What’s so special about Chrome? Well, see for yourself. Don’t bother wondering if Chrome is a good browser; it is. Don’t even bother asking if it’s better than Firefox, because, well, it’s really hard to say, and it’s not even an important question. The real question is whether Google Chrome is going to be successful. How much of the browser market will Google control by the end of this year? 1%? 10%? 50%? Right now it’s hard to say.

On the surface, Chrome doesn’t feel much different from our beloved Firefox 3. Sure, it looks a little funny (and very blue), but it handles much the way any normal browser does. It has a phishing/malware blacklist, just like Firefox, a download manager, tabbed browsing, and a “smart” address bar that does everything under the sun.

Chrome does sport a couple features that set it ahead of Firefox: multiprocessing for tabs, a super-quick Javascript virtual machine, and a task manager. So are people going to be leaping out of their chairs to download Google Chrome? Or will it sputter and die because Firefox is “good enough” for most people? I managed to convert my mother from IE7 to Firefox 3 not by telling her how much better Firefox is, but by telling her that you don’t have to put up with any crap in Firefox. That is, she was converted not because Firefox is so good, but because it doesn’t suck.

So I feel like much of Google’s potential market for Chrome is already taken and unwilling to make a change. Why should someone want to change from one perfectly good browser to another that they’ve never used before? Multiprocessing might seem neat to us techies, but to average Joe it’s not that important.

In light of this, we have to wonder how much effort Google will spend advertising their browser. Harry McCracken asks a good question:

Just how hard will Google push Chrome on the Google homepage? Like no other company on earth, Google has an opportunity to get hundreds of millions of people using its browser in a relatively short amount of time. You gotta think that it’ll use the Google homepage to drum up interest. But will it check to see if you’re using IE, Firefox, or another browser and attempt to convince you to switch?

Currently, the Google homepage displays nothing at all related to Chrome (Edit: Nevermind, it’s up there now – 9/03). Of course, hype has done a significant amount of advertising for them (sounds hypocritical, but I’m a Google fanboy, so I don’t mind).

I’d love to report on Chrome’s performance in the Acid2 and Acid3 tests, but they’re either down or operating very slowly right now, perhaps because everyone thinks like I do. Edit: Chrome seems to pass Acid2 and scores a 79/100 on Acid3.

Chrome Acid2 Screenshot

Chrome Acid3 Screenshot

Fecha: 20 de julio de 2008

Source: Genbeta

Target: Mozilla Firefox y Microsoft Internet Explorer 8

La guerra de navegadores es algo tan antiguo como la propia Internet. Desde el primer navegador (ViolaWWW), el mítico Mosaic que el estudiante Marc Andressen realizó como proyecto fin de carrera, pasando por la guerra entre Netscape y Microsoft, hasta la actual guerra por los usuarios entre Microsoft y Mozilla. Hasta ahora Microsoft ha conseguido ganar claramente esta batalla desde que sacó del mercado a Mosaic, en gran medida por el dominio de su sistema operativo Windows.

Pero Microsoft tiene un problema importante desde hace ya algún tiempo con Firefox. El porqué hay que buscarlo sobre todo en los complementos, esas pequeñas aplicaciones que le podemos añadir a nuestro navegador y nos permiten hacer cosas que el navegador no permite de serie. Firefox tiene muchos más complementos que Explorer, adicionalmente éstos son más fáciles de instalar y son siempre gratuitos. Todo esto a pesar de que los complementos han sido una de las prioridades en el desarrollo de Explorer 8. Un golpe bajo de la nueva versión de Microsoft es que cuando se instala pregunta si el usuario quiere que se busquen extensiones similares a las que se tienen instaladas para Firefox (el caso es que Firefox tiene muchas más extensiones que Explorer, así que el resultado será, en cualquier caso, cuestionable). Partiendo de la base que para el usuario experimentado los complementos resultan indispensables, y que para el usuario medio los complementos son cada vez más importantes, Firefox tiene cartas ganadoras en esta partida que dura ya años.

La gestión de las descargar y los marcadores es otro de los aspectos importantes de la comparativa. Explorer 8 prácticamente no se ha preocupado de este aspecto, por lo que Firefox sigue conservando una clara diferencia. Lo único que podemos destacar en este sentido es la incorporación de la tecnología de webslices, que permite descargar partes de una página web.

Con respecto a las pruebas para desarrolladores, Explorer 8 ha progresado al pasar el test Acid2, pero está muy lejos en Acid3 (18/100) de llegar al nivel de Firefox (71/100). El Acid3 es un test desarrollado para ver si un navegador respeta las especificaciones de los estándares web desarrollados por el W3C. Es decir, nos indica si el navegador cumple con los estándares generales de desarrollo de web. En función de la salida de nuevos estándares, hay nuevas versiones del test. La versión actual del test es la 3. Que un navegador cumple total o parcialmente el test quiere decir que mostrará con mayor o menor fiabilidad la página web tal como fueron programadas exactamente (respetando estilos, fuentes, etc).

En definitiva, estamos ante un intento que empieza a ser desesperado por parte de Microsoft de plantarle cara a una aplicación que le está superando claramente y que va inclinando poco a poco la balanza de su parte. Esta vez Microsoft lo tiene mucho más complicado que en batallas anteriores, y de hecho no tiene cartas ganadoras esta vez. Su último intento está muy lejos de llegar al nivel de su rival, por lo menos en esta primera Beta 1 que está disponible en el mercado.

I should be in bed: I’m pretty tired and am fighting another kidney-related bug (but the good news is that the antibiotics do appear to be kicking in), but I just wanted to check in and say this:

Mozilla Firefox 3.0 is pretty fantastic.

I have to be honest, I was a little hesitant about upgrading. It’s not that I wasn’t looking forward to checking it out — I’d tried out v.3.0 beta 5, and v.3.0 RC1 after all.  It’s just that I really do rely on a number of key add-ons for my everyday browsing and Web development.

I needn’t have worried. At work 1/20 didn’t work with Firefox 3, and at home it was 2/17.  The offending add-ons were “Tails” (a microformats add-on) and “X-Ray” (which shows HTML tags in the page).  Nothing show-stopping, nothing that couldn’t be replaced with something else or dropped.

Firefox 3 is so much faster, both loading and rendering pages. The new features on the address bar are fantastic. My only niggle is that I really don’t like the default theme.  I loved the chunky look of versions 1.0.x, 1.5.x and 2.x.  So I’m using CrystalFox Modern until someone ports the old theme to version 3!

Oh, and it passes the Acid2 test and scores 71/100 on Acid3.

But hey! if that’s my only criticism of Fx3 then they must be doing something pretty darned well!

Right, now I’m off to bed!

Copyright (c) 2008 Alvaro O. López

Hace poco a un desarrollador inteligente de Google se le ocurrió la idea de generar una pequeña página web con la cual podíamos hacer un test de compatibilidad CSS a nuestro navegador de Internet. Si nuestro navegador cumplía bien con los estándares HTML y CSS entonces al cargar la página deberíamos ver lo siguiente:

Yo como soy muy curioso me puse a abrir esta prueba con mi navegador Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.13 bajo Linux y vean lo que obtuve:

Esta prueba llamada Acid2 Test ya ha sido pasada por los nuevos navegadores Safari, Konqueror, Firefox 3.0 e Internet Explorer 8.

Si deseas saber más acerca de esta prueba puedes ver éste artículo (en inglés). O si deseas hacerle la prueba a tu navegador, puedes visitar esta página.

ACID3-testaus

Yksikään nykyisistä Internet-selaimista ei noudata www-julkaisussa käytettäviä standerdeja (standardeihin voit tutustua W3C:n sivustolla)riittävästi läpäistäkseen uuden ACID-3 -testin. Tiettävästi tällä hetkellä yleisimmistä selaimista parhaiten ACID-3-testistä on selviytynyt Opera Opera 9.50 beta build 9815 versiollaan. Nykyiset uusimmat viralliset versiot Firefoxista tai Internet Explorerista eivät läpäisseet edes vanhempaa ACID-2 -testiä, mutta Operan uusin versio (9.26 build 8835) läpäisee. Kannattaa siis käyttää Operaa, jos haluatte mahdollisimman laaja-alaista toimivuutta, mutta Firefoxia, jos haluatte selaimen lähes äärimmäistä mukailtavuutta. Asiasta kertoi suomeksi Digitoday ja englanniksi DailyTech.

Standardit eivät ole vain selainvalmistajien ongelma, sillä jokaisen kotisivujaan väsäävän tulee huolehtia, että omat sivunsa täyttävät www-julkaisun standardit. Sivujensa standardien mukaisuutta voi käydä testaamassa W3C:n validaattoreilla ilmaiseksi. Varsinaisten standardien lisäksi kannattaisi sivujen suunnittelijan ajatella myös erityisryhmiä ja heidän laitteidensa tarpeita, joten erilaiset näytöt ja mahdolliset puhesyntetisaattorit tulee myös huomioida värisokeita ihmisiä unohtamatta heitäkään. Ja sitten, kun sivut ovat standardien mukaisia ja niitä katsellaan standardien mukaisilla selaimilla, on kaikilla kivaa.

Valitettavasti kaikki yleisetkään palvelut eivät halua noudattaa standardeja ja siksi esimerkiksi tämä minun wordpressissä sijaitseva blogini ei ole standardien mukaista materiaalia.

Microsoft anuncia versão beta do IE8. A principal novidade esperada para o IE8 não é em performance, mas em compatibilidade. O time de programadores por trás do IE garante que está trabalhando aliado ao The Web Standards Project para tentar manter a nova versão do navegador mais compatível do que o atual IE7. Os programadores se orgulham de que as edições de testes internos do IE8 foram aprovadas no Acid2, um método de verificar os padrões universais da web para sites em diferentes navegadores.
Para os desenvolvedores e curiosos que queiram acompanhar as novidades do IE8 uma boa pedida é o blog oficial. Inclusive, em um dos posts, eles mesmo fazem piada sobre a nomenclatura do Internet Explorer, se seria 8.0 ou algum outro termo do tipo “IE Desktop Online Web Browser Live Professional Ultimate Edition for the Internet”.

A Microsoft ainda não se pronunciou sobre o método de ativação do IE8. Não se sabe se qualquer pessoa poderá fazer o download e instalar o produto, mesmo em Windows piratas, ou se apenas usuários “legítimos” poderão proceder.

No IE7, inicialmente apenas aos licenciados era permitida a instalação. A medida foi revista meses depois pela Microsoft e, hoje, qualquer um pode baixar o IE7 e instalar em qualquer versão do Windows, pirata ou não.Fonte: UOL

Microsoft ha publicado la nueva versión de su navegador web propietario. Por lo visto prometían un mayor respeto por los estándares web, cosa que al final se ha convertido en un donde dije digo digo Diego y que seguirá haciendo la vida imposible a muchos webmasters al tener que diseñar a la vez la página para los navegadores que respetan los estándares y para IE.

De momento, parece que tampoco se han molestado en mejorar su lamentable interfaz, sigue siendo igual que en IE7, es decir, que tiene a la vista montones de botones que no se usan y muchas de las cosas que mas deberían estar accesibles estan bastante bien escondidas. Yo por mi parte, no creo que lo pruebe hasta que los chicos de ies4linux lo porten al ñú.

Pero bueno, hay que tener en cuenta que es una beta, así que muchas cosas pueden cambiar hasta que salga.

A Microsoft já anunciou (ha algum tempo) que lançaria o novo internet explorer, a nova versão seguirá os web sandarts (w3c)  e, assim como o firefox, o ie8 vai permitir o desenvlvimento de add-ons pela comunidade.

Agora, se você (assim como eu) achava que o ie7 já obedecia os web standarts, dê uma olhada no site da Acid2. eu testei no safari (mac) funcionou perfeitamente… no ie7 ficou uma porcaria.

P.S. O firefox esta em 17% dos computadores do mundo enquanto o IE está em 77%

This about face marks a change from their previous stance which would have been to render pages exactly as IE7 did, and only render pages in their super-duper-standards-compliant mode if a special META tag were present (or HTML 5 doctype were supplied).

This is, for many reasons, amazing news. For the first time in, well, ever, Microsoft is taking an extremely strong stance on pushing the envelope on the web in a way that doesn’t alienate it’s biggest proponents. From their press release¹ released today:

“This is obviously a complex issue, with important considerations on both sides,” Ozzie said. “On one hand, there are literally billions of Web pages designed to render on previous browser versions, including many sites that are no longer actively managed. On the other hand, there is a concrete benefit to Web designers if all vendors give priority to interoperability around commonly accepted standards as they evolve. After weighing these very legitimate concerns, we have decided to give top priority to support for these new Web standards. In keeping with the commitment we made in our Interoperability Principles of being even more transparent in how we support standards in our products, we will work with content publishers to ensure they fully understand the steps we are taking and will encourage them to use this beta period to update their sites to transition to the more current Web standards supported by IE8.”

¹: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/mar08/03-03WebStandards.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases

The other day I was reading about the Acid2, which is a browser test to see how close your browser comes to meeting the web standards.

From what I know the web standards is a huge list of guidelines, rules and recommendations on how a browser should render various elements and tags. With that in mind I was assuming after taking the Acid 2 test I was hoping to see a long list of the various guidelines with a result saying whether my browser succeeded or failed in that particular test, however after visiting the url I was surprised to see a smiley smiling back at me. It took me about a minute to realize that the fully formed smiley meant that my browser cleared the Acid 2 test. (Kudus to Safari and Opera).

Reading further I saw how each of the elements that went into forming that smiley actually tested for the various web standards. You can read more about it here http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2/guide/

I’d say this is one of the best examples where, something so complex can be converted into something so simple and creative.

From what I checked out last , Safari and Opera cleared the Acid 2 test, while Firefox 2.0 comes close, and the good new is IE 8 too has cleared the test, so the future looks a lot more stress free for web designers and developers.

La bonne nouvelle de la semaine, c’est Microsoft qui l’a lancée en annonçant que IE8, la prochaine version d’Internet Explorer, passera avec succès le test ACID2.

Le quoi ?!?

Le test ACID2 est un test permettant de vérifier le respect des standards W3C par un navigateur internet (les standards du HTML et des CSS2).  Ce test consiste en une “simple” page affichant une image construite en CSS. Si l’image s’affiche correctement, c’est que le navigateur passe avec succès le test.

Jusqu’à présent, peu de navigateurs passent le test ACID2 avec succès. Parmi les plus connus, on peut citer Safari, Konqueror et Opera. Firefox devrait le passer dans sa version 3.0.

Si tous les navigateurs de la prochaine génération respectent les CSS de la même manière, ce sera un grand pas en avant pour les webmasters (bon, la couche JavaScript sera toujours un problème cela dit).