Erik Dahlström

Getting to the core of the web

Tuesday, 22. January 2008, 18:40:50

With a goal to get the web browsers of today to become more interoperable, the ACID2 test has proven itself valuable. Microsoft recently claimed IE8 would correctly render ACID2, although lately there has been a bit of buzz on what that actually meant. Ian Hickson has started the work on ACID3 and with the competition for test additions being over now, I hope we'll see something more finished soon. A number of SVG tests have been added to the work-in-progress ACID3 test as a result of the competition (see tests 68 - 75).

So lets hope that ACID3 means that non-standard behavior will start to corrode away, resulting in a solid interoperable core of the web that, among other things, includes SVG.

Update: Here's the link to the submission that was made, note that the tests were partially rewritten by Hixie for the official ACID3 test.

Mmm...leftovers...How to do photoshop-like effects in SVG

Comments

Anonymous # 29. January 2008, 20:18

Anonymous writes:

Well SVG support killed any chance any had of IE9 ever passing the ACID3 test :P Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see SVG in IE - but unfortunately, my realism outweighs my optimism :(

Anonymous # 7. February 2008, 20:50

Anonymous writes:

One would think that was the point - to screw over IE. Opera guys do seem to work that way.

Anonymous # 4. March 2008, 20:26

tomek-k writes:

One should realize, that the problem with SVG in IE is caused by Microsoft. It's not Opera's fault that it complies with the standards, and IE doesn't. SVG is one of the standards.

I think that is very good that some SVG testing got into the ACID3 - SVG in combination with JS is a technology that competes with Adobe's Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight. Recently Microsoft seems to be willing to be seen as a company that tries to comply with standards (not only the Web standards), so now they have a choice - or to fight technologies concurent to their Silverlight (their normal practice), or to comply with the standards (passing ACID 3 by IE would be one of proofs for that) by supporting SVG+JS (thus helping a concurent technology to spread in the Web).