The Acid 2 Test and Apple’s Safari
The Web Standards Project has thrown down the gauntlet of the Acid 2 Test and Dave Hyatt is doing an impressively quick job of picking it up. The Acid 2 test was put together to see if your browser can render this standards-based smiley face. Currently, all modern browsers fail and they are expected to. This challenge to browser makers is about setting a benchmark for moving forward.
Dave Hyatt, one of the brains driving the development of the Mac browser Safari, is taking that challenge very publicly. Post by post on his site Surfin’ Safari, you get to see him improve the next update to Safari and test his work very publicly. He’s pretty close to passing. Fun stuff to watch, plus the varying render of the face look a lot like something from a Tron game I used to play on my Intellivision.
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I used to love that Tron game on the Intellivision. Discs of Tron, right? The one where you had to kill the bad guys (different colors for different difficulty levels) and then kill the big robot-thing by hitting it right in the eye? I used to play that for hours!
Yeah, Discs of Tron. Amazing game. I used to play that for incredible spans of time. There was also a Tron game called Tron Maze-a-Tron that was utterly confusing and made no sense at all. Ah, childhood.