Hixie's Natural LogIan Hickson's Web log. Commentary on events of interest, cats, and idiocy around the world. Well, Ian's world.Mistakes, Sadness, Regret- January 23, 2008 There were several announcements yesterday. First: The W3C finally got around to publishing one of the drafts of the HTML5 spec as a "first public working draft" (a misnomer if ever there was one, given the history of HTML5). This is news for one reason and one reason only: it starts the W3C patent policy clock, which means that within a few months we will know if any of the browser vendors have patents they wish to use to block progress on the Web. Still, a step forwards. Second: The syntax..http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1201080691&count=1 The competition for you to come up with the best test for Acid3- January 14, 2008 As many of you will have heard by now, I've been working on the next Acid Test. Acid Tests are a way to encourage browser vendors to focus on interoperability. With the Box Acid Test, Todd Fahrner highlighted the CSS box model, and the resulting interoperability was one of the first big successes of the movement towards having browsers properly implement Web standards. Acid2 tested a broader range of technologies, but primarily it was focused on the static processing of HTML and the static...http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1200301306&count=1 |