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Forget CSS.  Forget JS features.  Forget it all, we’ve finally got the be-all-and-end-all test to find out which browser/os combination is best!  The ACID test is history, bring on the unicode snowman test!

NB: Results may vary depending on your own individual awesomeness.  Terms and conditions apply. See back of pack for details.

Browser	OS	Render sample	Score
Firefox	OSX	-	10/10
Firefox	Windows		1/10
Opera Firefox	Linux		8/10
IE 5.2	OSX		0/10
IE 7	Windows		9/10
Safari Opera	OSX		6/10

Surprisingly few browsers bothered to render the snow, an integral part of snowman longevity. Clearly these browsers are not suitable for high availability applications. Firefox on windows gets a token point for marshalling a few pixels, but it’s not the kind of snowman I’d like to find in my garden.  IE for Mac needs to be uninstalled immediately (we had to check 5 macs before we found a copy).

Linux could have scored signficiantly higher, all the requisite parts are there, but the body/head size ratio is a bit too far off which leaves it less than pretty, which leaves us to choose between Firefox on OSX and IE on Windows.  IE doesn’t have the snow, so we’re left with Firefox on OSX being the best browser, with IE in a close second.

There you have it, it’s better to browse the net with windows and IE than Ubuntu and Firefox!  Scientificly proven.

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