What is The Acid2 Browser Compatibility Test?
The Acid2 test is a Web page which tests a browsers ability to follow Web standards. If the browser passes, the page renders with the message “Hello World! and a smiley face” As any developer will tell you, having a standards compliant browser is a dream! Long have we had to muck up our pristine code to write ugly hacks to support non-compliant browsers such as IE6. Visiting a site with non-compliant browser means that you probably wont see the site as the designer intend. The browser will misinterpret (if render at all) the code – which is completely infuriating as a designer!! Up until now every major browser, with the exception of Microsoft browsers, were standard complaint.
