Something of a Potemkin Village? Acid2 and Mozilla’s Efforts to Comply with HTML4

Submitted by msquire on Thu, 2011-12-01 12:05
TitleSomething of a Potemkin Village? Acid2 and Mozilla’s Efforts to Comply with HTML4
Publication TypeConference Proceedings
Year of Publication2011
Authorsden Besten, Matthijs, and Dalle Jean-Michel
Secondary TitleOpen Source Systems: Grounding Research (OSS 2011)
Pagination320-324
Date Published10/2011
PublisherSpringer
Abstract

The real point here is that the Acid3 test isn’t a broad-spectrum standards-support test. It’s a showpiece, and something of a Potemkin village at that. Which is a shame, because what’s really needed right now is exhaustive test suites for specifications— XHTML, CSS, DOM, SVG.