Simon Willison’s Weblog

Ian's Acid 3, unlike its predecessors, is not about establishing a baseline of useful web capabilities. It's quite explicitly about making browser developers jump - Ian specifically sought out tests that were broken in WebKit, Opera, and Gecko, perhaps out of a twisted attempt at fairness. But the Acid tests shouldn't be fair to browsers, they should be fair to the web; they should be based on how good the web will be as a platform if all browsers conform, not about how far any given browser has to stretch to get there.

— Mike Shaver

# 27th March 2008, 1:35 pm / mike-shaver, acid3, ian-hickson, webkit, opera, gecko, browsers, web-standards

The web can eat toolchain bait like this for breakfast.

— Mike Shaver

# 11th May 2007, 3:43 pm / mike-shaver, apollo, flash, silverlight, mozilla