The Web Standards Project has released the third version of their Acid test. The goal of this test is to create a common testing framework to verify a browser implementation of web standards. The Acid3 test are organized in buckets and stress the following:

• Bucket 1: DOM Traversal, DOM Range, HTTP
• Bucket 2: DOM2 Core and DOM2 Events
• Bucket 3: DOM2 Views, DOM2 Style, CSS 3 selectors and Media Queries
• Bucket 4: Behavior of HTML tables and forms when manipulated by script and DOM2 HTML
• Bucket 5: Tests from the Acid3 Competition (SVG,[5] HTML, SMIL, Unicode…)
• Bucket 6: ECMAScript

From Wikipedia’s entry on Acid3

As of now, no browser passes Acid3. Anomalous Anomaly has tested numerous browser against Acid3 and found some pretty interesting results, namely that the old IE5.5 out performs both IE6 and IE7, but luckily not IE8, which comes in with a paltry 17% of the test passed.

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