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Posts tagged with "standards"

Falling back, or falling down...

Monday, 21. April 2008, 20:11:22

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Microsoft tries to improve web standards support in IE8 apparently...well, except for...

Known issues we are not planning to change in IE8
  1. <OBJECT> is not parsed in a cross-browser compatible way (parsing stops at the OBJECT, whereas other browsers continue parsing all the fallback content and make it available. No support for this parsing behavior is planned for IE8; I'll take this opportunity to ask for real-world scenarios that can help me prioritize this feature.
  2. <OBJECT> elements cannot be 'reactivated' by dynamically correcting the attributes that caused the original fallback. Again, your feedback on the potential benefits/use-cases for this feature appreciated.

Source: IE8Blog

Being web standards compliant is not important enough?

Anyway, in practice it means that IE users won't be able to see most graphics on my blog. I usually provide some kind of fallback content for the tags I use. This makes it easier to do progressive enhancement, browsers that don't handle some type of content at all get some other content to munge on instead. Or anyway, that was the thought.

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Getting to the core of the web

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

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Your browser doesn't support SVG - click here to download one that does.

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.

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