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Acid3 browser test gets an overhaul

Stephen Shankland, CNET News | September 20, 2011 6:57 AM PDT

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Two browser experts have pared back Acid3, a test that browser standards fans held up to spotlight Internet Explorer's shortcomings, so that it will not hold back development of those standards.

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Web, Web Browser, Standards, Web Browsers, Quality, Internet, Business Operations


Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML specification, and Håkon Wium Lie, chief technology officer of browser maker Opera, pared back Acid3, a test that browser standards fans held up to spotlight Internet Explorer's shortcomings, so the test won't hold back development of those standards in an announcement on Google+.

Acid3 measures 100 aspects of Web standards compliance, but the test arrived in a more informal period of standards development when Opera, Mozilla, and Apple had picked up a lot of Web standards work through the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG).

Web developers will be interested in his list of standards under debate for serious change--in the real world of standards, not just in the test. And fans of fonts and animations using SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) should brace themselves for the possibility that those technologies will be excised altogether from the full array of Web standards.

For more on this story, read HTML gurus modernize Acid3 browser test on CNET News.

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RE: Acid3 browser test gets an overhaul
Michael Alan Goff 21st Sep
@Jeremy-UK

Well, they apparently removed things that weren't used anyway.

Did you know that you can have a completely Acid 3 compliant browser that can't do normal websites?
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If everyone gets a perfect score
Michael Alan Goff 20th Sep
Does it have any meaning?
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RE: Acid3 browser test gets an overhaul
Jeremy-UK 21st Sep
@Michael Alan Goff No, it doesn't. Seems pointless if you're just going to modify the test so it's easier. The whole point of the Acid3 test was that it used some pretty weird (but valid) HTML code. It was never meant to be the simplest way to get the end result, it was meant to make browsers fail if they weren't fully standards compliant.

So now browser makers (Well Opera at least) want an easier less rigorous test. Perhaps they should call it the "Low pH 3" test as it seems rather less "acid" than it was.
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RE: Acid3 browser test gets an overhaul
Michael Alan Goff 21st Sep
@Jeremy-UK

Well, they apparently removed things that weren't used anyway.

Did you know that you can have a completely Acid 3 compliant browser that can't do normal websites?

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