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.
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I don't see how most of the things Acid3 is testing are not "fair" to the Web. I'd say that @font-face for instance is very good for the Web. It enables rich typography. The sole reason it was removed from CSS 2.0 was lack of implementations, not that it was poorly thought out.
Unfortunately, Mike is misinformed about Acid2, as Ian points out in the comments. Acid3 targeting browser bugs is not the departure from Acid2 that he characterises it as.
+1 to what Anne said too.
Jim - 27th March 2008 20:55 - #