Acid2 Test - Firefox 3 Beta 1 vs Phoenix 0.1, Firebird 0.6 and Firefox 2
Linux November 25th, 2007
Have you ever heard of the Acid test for browsers?
Acid 2 is the worst case senario to test web standards compliance. Looking at the source code, it’s by far one of the most convoluted (yet perfectly web compliant) pages I’ve ever seen. I was digging around the Mozilla ftp site and found a really old version of Firefox, called Phoenix and snagged that as well as Firebird.
Phoenix begot Firebird, and Firebird begot Firefox - the browser we all know and love.
Let’s take a look at the results: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Acid2 Test, Firebird, Firefox, Phoenix


