« The test must fail (throw an exception) in either a Firefox trunk build from January 2008 or a Webkit trunk build from January 2008 (or, ideally, both). (Opera and IE are failing plenty of tests already, I don't want to add more tests that only fail in one of those. Of course if you find something that fails in Firefox or Webkit and Opera or IE, so much the better.) » (en) Ian Hickson, The competition for you to come up with the best test for Acid3, 14 janvier 2008.
(en) Windows Internet Explorer 8 Expert Zone Chat, le 20 mars 2008. Selon Chris Wilson : « The ACID3 test is a collection of interesting tests, spread across a large set of standards. Some of those standards will see improvements in IE8 - in fact, IE8 already improves on IE7's score - but we are focused on the most important features and standards to make web developers' lives easier. The ACID3 test does not map directly to that goal. » URL accédée le 15 avril 2008.
(en) Bug 17510, Webkit tracking bug : "The latest WebKit development build scores 100/100, renders the test correctly, and passes the smoothness criterion"