yanowhiz Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...-trunk/?C=M;O=D Firefox 3.0a1 passes the Acid2 test! Looks like Mozilla was pressured by Opera passing the test a while back. This is great progress for Mozilla! :D http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cryton Subscriber² Posted December 12, 2006 Subscriber² Share Posted December 12, 2006 Mozilla wasn't pressured by anyone. The reflow rewrite has been in progress for the past two years or so. It's only in the last week it's got to the stage where it could be merged onto the trunk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernova_00 Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 And its Gecko 1.9a1 that passes that stupid test. Firefox 3.0a1 hasn't been release yet and won't be for months...those are nightlys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalE Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 That's good to hear! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolslacker Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 That's a good news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agnes Leroy Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 Gecko 1.9 = Cairo. I think I am correct ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cryton Subscriber² Posted December 15, 2006 Subscriber² Share Posted December 15, 2006 No, gecko 1.9 is firefox's layout/reflow engine. Cairo is the way the webpage, one laid out, gets physically drawn onto the screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mFC_ Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 ive been playing with the 3.0 alpha nightly for two days now, its nice to see a browser progress so nicely over the years. of course, there aren't really any changes that would otherwise appeal to the everyday user just yet. but, i guess that is to be expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrisCr0ss Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 exactly what are the benefits of this ACID stuff exactly what are the benefits of this ACID stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primexx Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 exactly what are the benefits of this ACID stuff exactly what are the benefits of this ACID stuff The ACID 2 test was written using some of the more obscure guidelines in the CSS 2 specification, those that many browsers at the time failed to render properly. To pass the test a browser must correct many rendering errors thus effectively enforcing standards-compliance (though not perfect). This in turn leads to better cross browser compatibility of webpages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starchild Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=521025 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxdesmus Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 ^^ Exactly, a much better thread with more information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
em_te Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 exactly what are the benefits of this ACID stuff exactly what are the benefits of this ACID stuff A little wikipedia search goes a long way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qbie Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 Shouldn't that be.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid2 Not sure what Litmus paper has to do with Mozilla ;) q Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malisk Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 (edited) There are no big benefits with being ACID2 conformant by itself; the major benefits comes from supporting technologies in reasonable use. One problem with the ACID2 test is that it covers the fringes of the CSS standard, and developers can have conflicting views on how (and even if, in case of e.g. non-standard data URL's) a standard should be implemented -- i.e. what exactly the details in W3C's wording should be. Sometimes the standard guidelines can be slightly fuzzy, and it would be quite futile for a user to judge a browser based on ACID2 compliance. The Mozilla developers would likely agree about this, or otherwise Firefox 2 would have had a much bigger goal as complying to that test. Also keep in mind that the ACID2 test wasn't developed by the W3C but is a custom made one. But I agree on that the ACID2 neveretheless covers many quite important technologies to support. It's nice to hear Firefox 3 will finally work with this test as well; it's about time it joined the club, given what the developers are striving to achieve with this browser. Edited December 19, 2006 by Jugalator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted December 19, 2006 Veteran Share Posted December 19, 2006 the data: URI's, while useful, were never standardized by the W3C (they are only a RFC), so failing that is a non-issue (there is a version of ACID2 without them) But, i still think they are great, and wish IE supported them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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