Hixie's Natural LogIan Hickson's Web log. Commentary on events of interest, cats, and idiocy around the world. Well, Ian's world.The antialiasing controversy in Acid3- March 29, 2008 The Acid3 test has a rendering subtest that checks the positioning of text in particular conditions (absolutely-positioned generated content with embedded fonts). To get precise results, I used a single glyph from the Ahem font, which has well-known metrics. My plan was to have the glyph set up so that a perfect white 20×20 pixel square glyph from the font would be overlaid exactly on a 20×20 pixel square red background, thus hiding everything when things lined up. I positioned this.http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1206756775&count=1 Last minute changes to Acid3- March 27, 2008 Just as Reddit is celebrating Opera reaching 100100, with the misleading headline Opera the first browser to pass the Acid3 test (hey, submitter: it wouldn't hurt to read the Opera blog post before submitting it to Reddit), the Apple guys track me down and point out that there's yet another bug in the test. With heycam's help, we have now fixed the test. Again. This presumably means Opera is now at 99100... the race continues! I have to say, by the way, that the relevant parts of the SVG spec...http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1206578003&count=1 Tests that are never quite finished- March 26, 2008 Since we announced the Acid3 test a few short weeks ago, two major browser vendors have been tripping over themselves trying to pass the test, with both Opera and Safari getting very close in the last few hours. Of course, with a test as complex as this one, I was bound to make some mistakes, which the browser vendors were very quick to tell me about. Sometimes they were mistaken, and the test was actually correct; other times I was wrong, and had to fix the test, and in one case, the spec...http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1206565203&count=1 Moebius- March 4, 2008 After baking it for several weeks, we have finally decided Acid3 is stable enough to announce it is ready. We'll be working on a guide and other commentary in the coming weeks and months, but it'll take a while — Acid3 is far more complex than Acid2 was. I have to say straight up that I've been really impressed with the WebKit team. Even before the test was finished, they were actively following up every single bug the test showed. Safari 3 (the last released version) scores 39100 with...http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1204593554&count=1 |