Firefox (on a development branch) passing the Acid2 test
This is a build of Firefox on the reflow branch, a development branch on which I'm making major changes to the way Gecko does intrinsic width computation and incremental layout, showing the Acid2 test being passed.
If you're curious about the reflow branch: it's still not ready for testing, although hopefully it will be in a few weeks (once form controls can be turned on again and the table code gets a bit more work).
Update: These changes landed on the trunk on December 7, 2006, so the latest trunk builds now pass the Acid2 test.
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tantek added this photo to his favorites. (86 months ago)
Axel Hecht (86 months ago | reply)
yay, nice view.
trovster (86 months ago | reply)
Sweet.
[Beta] added this photo to his favorites. (86 months ago)
[Beta] (86 months ago | reply)
nice..
mike_appelman (86 months ago | reply)
looking forward to it! it's a shame gecko couldn't do this when firefox 1.0 was released, and still couldn't do it by the time it hit 1.5!
keep up the good work!
FleaCircus (86 months ago | reply)
That's nice!
funTomas (86 months ago | reply)
Congrats Dave, good job. Hope, we'll se it in trunk soon.
minghong added this photo to his favorites. (86 months ago)
pittaya (86 months ago | reply)
Great !
striptm (86 months ago | reply)
Wonderful DBaron, as we say in Spain "eres un monstruo" :-)
JW_00000, jdub_dub, and The_Decryptor added this photo to their favorites.
mu22le (84 months ago | reply)
WTF are you running, windows vista with aero?
Or, if you are using linux, what's your window manager?
hakonlo (84 months ago | reply)
@mu22le: That is Metacity, Gnome's window manager, using some incarnation of the clearlooks theme. Probably on Linux (or *BSD. Or Solaris).
Behdad Esfahbod (83 months ago | reply)
Good job man.
xBoom151 (81 months ago | reply)
Firefox 3.0a doesn't pass the Acid2 test. What Firefox is that??
Linux's?
Atomic1fire (80 months ago | reply)
fake
its probably the reference page
silicon.salamander (80 months ago | reply)
This is not a fake. Nor is it the normal 3.0 alpha build (the 3.0a1 build still does not pass Acid2).
You can see for yourself by downloading the installer from Mozilla:
ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/night ly/experimen...
Open this folder, locate the latest build, and install. I'm typing this message in the 10/22 reflow nightly build right now. And Yes, it does pass the Acid2 test.
I can't wait till FireFox 3 is released!
sla80 (80 months ago | reply)
Yes, it IS real! :)
Get FIREFOX 3.0 ALPHA (this is direct link to installer), and see this yourself!
dbaron (78 months ago | reply)
These changes have now landed on the trunk, so the latest trunk builds pass the Acid2 test.
TJesse (78 months ago | reply)
Can you add this to: www.flickr.com/groups/digg/
paulcalypse (78 months ago | reply)
Very nice! You got dugg!
mholt added this photo to his favorites. (78 months ago)
0b1ivion (78 months ago | reply)
kudos to the developers
errorik added this photo to his favorites. (78 months ago)
Visnes (78 months ago | reply)
Finally. Great work guys! :)
Jack Pearce added this photo to their favorites. (78 months ago)
defunctlife (78 months ago | reply)
Excellent news, open source ftw.
Ben Karel and rolandog added this photo to their favorites.
rowast (78 months ago | reply)
that is awesome, good work.
szzuk (78 months ago | reply)
Well done dude.
Safe in my own skin and Colin ZHU added this photo to their favorites.
treyjp (78 months ago | reply)
great news, let's see IE try to compete with this...
Vinnl (78 months ago | reply)
So... Why did you hide the URL?
Marko Mihelcic added this photo to his favorites. (78 months ago)
Marko Mihelcic (78 months ago | reply)
woho! Nice!
mosesofmason (78 months ago | reply)
wow! can't wait any longer to use Fx 3 ~
:D
Nicky.hy, ZhangYining, lloydi, undersound, and fabbio added this photo to their favorites.
fabbio (78 months ago | reply)
:-) this is a happy morning
Acid Zebra (78 months ago | reply)
yay! I also love the move to Cairo. excellent!