Directory of Compatibility and Standards Compliance Resources

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Sites dealing with the differences in how web browsers handle (X)HTML, CSS, Scripting etc. including details of support (or lack thereof) for recognised standards.

Resources in This Category

• Acid Tests

  http://www.acidtests.org/
  A series of tests from the Web Standards Project to assess the standards support of web browsers. Also includes tests themselves, reference renderings, descriptions of the functions tested.

• Acid2 in Major Browsers

  http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/acid/
  Screenshots and discussion of the rendering of the Acid 2 test by different versions of various browsers.

• Browser Zoom Comparison

  http://alastairc.ac/2006/11/browser-zoom-comparison/
  Compares the zoom function and its results on all the major browsers.

• Browsershots

  http://browsershots.org/
  Generates screenshots of how websites appear at vraious resolutions in several commonly used web browsers.

• CSS3 . info - CSS Selectors testsuite

  http://www.css3.info/selectors-test/
  Test to determine whether your browsers supports all CSS selectors.

• IE Netrenderer

  http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/
  Online tool allowing to verify how websites appear in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, 6 and 7.

• Internet Explorer Testing Center

  http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/ietestcenter/
  Large number of test results showing HTML5, SVG, CSS, DOM and JavaScript capabilities.

• QuirksMode DOM Compatibility Tables

  http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/compatibility.html
  Provides detailed studies and suggested work-arounds for various browser incompatibilities relating to modern standards.

• Robin's HTML 4.0 Conformance Test

  http://www.robinlionheart.com/stds/html4/
  Test a browser's support for new HTML 4.0 elements. Includes a table of results for several popular browsers.

• Web Browser Standards Support

  http://www.webdevout.net/browser-support
  Tables comparing support for different feature of HTML, CSS, DOM, and ECMAScript in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera.

• When Can I Use...

  http://caniuse.com/
  Provides compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies.

• Wikipedia: Comparison of Web Browsers

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers
  Provides various tables giving an overview of the features and support for various standards present in a number of different browsers.

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