Comments on: This is your mobile device on Acid

By: Paul Martin

Paul Martin — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:14:37 +0000

Are there any results with all green?

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 02 May 2008 02:25:09 +0000

I have to say whomever wrote that headline should be working at a newspaper writing headlines instead of spending their time checking code. Quite catchy for a developer.

By: Jordan Clark

Jordan Clark — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:14:31 +0000

Slightly off topic, but am I the only person who’s getting a 404 error when trying to access this page from the WaSP home page?

When I removed the last trailing slash from the URL manually, it worked. Just thought I’d let you know…

By: David Storey

David Storey — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:39:06 +0000

The builds since Opera 9.5 beta pass the test fully (without the green lines). More importantly to the test, the upcoming Opera Mobile 9.5 beta also passes the test. Unfortunately Opera Mini doesn’t. It uses the same engine but doesn’t yet support SVG for efficiency reasons. I’m not sure why it fails the application/xhtml+xml test though. Probably something to do with the iframe.

By: Lenny

Lenny — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:07:39 +0000

I will only believe it when IE renders and handles a button-tag correctly and doesn’t try to save application/xml local.

Um… you will only believe what when IE does that? What has that even got to do with any of this?

By: sohbet

sohbet — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:12:09 +0000

I will only believe it when IE renders and handles a button-tag correctly and doesn’t try to save application/xml local.

By: Tamlyn

Tamlyn — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:04:44 +0000

Interesting that Mobile safari on Nokia S60 passes the dynamic SVG test whereas desktop safari doesn’t. What does it mean if the square is green but has a little white ‘+’ symbol in the corner?

Incidentally this is the first time I’ve been able to use a QR code to save rather than waste time!

By: pauldwaite

pauldwaite — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:39:59 +0000

> green squares are desirable, the red squares mean a feature isn’t yet supported

That’s a relief. I seem to remember something on the Safari blog about one developer sending another a test page for an Acid3-related bug, and the guy spent ages trying to stop it displaying a red square, when that was actually the success indicator.

My iPhone Safari gets 3 red squares.

By: Adam Dempsey

Adam Dempsey — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:45:20 +0000

I was just about to submit a screenshot my from Nokia N95 and saw they already had one in the gallery!

By: Chris Hester

Chris Hester — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:43:27 +0000

I know it’s not meant for desktop browsers, but perhaps the results are interesting when you try the mobile test on them. In the result I used a matrix counting left to right to indicate the squares:

1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12

The results are:

Opera 9.5 (Beta) – all green squares! But some red lines showing behind some.

Firefox 2 – mostly green. Red squares at positions 8, 9 and 12.

Firefox 3 (Beta 5) – same as Firefox 2, except squares 11 and 12 are not as tall as the rest.

IE8 – only the top line is green, the rest is red. Square 5 is missing altogether, and the browser tries to download an XHTML file at one point. Sigh!

Safari 3.1 – all green except square 9!