Update: This article is more or less misleading. According to Asa Dotzler (mozilla.org) ↓. The CSS Error is intentionally added by the “Web Standards Group” for Error handling test.
I read this news at kakkoi recently, following up on announcements at IEblog about their recent glorified claimed with IE8 ACID2 Milestone .
Acid 2
For those who doesn’t know much bout CSS specifications. ACID2 is a standard CSS Test page maintained by The Web Standards groups. This is where Browser Vendor test their Browser CSS rendering capability. The first batch to pass this test is opera 9.1, icab (osx) & Firefox 3a.
The most popular browser vendor (Microsoft Internet Explorer) just pass this test for IE8 (a) Browser. I’m quite happy as Internet Explorer is a big liability to support by most web developer. Unfortunately The ACID2 Test pages FAILED W3C CSS2.1 Validations.
43 Parse Error - second two] 88 .parser-container div Value Error : color orange is not a color value : orange 94 .parser Property error doesn't exist : } 97 .parser Property m rgin doesn't exist : 2em 97 Parse error - Unrecognized }; 99 .parser Value Error : width only 0 can be a length. You must put an unit after your number : 200 100 .parser Value Error : border Lexical error at line 96, column 38. Encountered: "e" (101), after : "! "error; 100 .parser Value Error : border Parse error - Unrecognized } 101 .parser Value Error : background Too many values or values are not recognized : red pink
3 Comments
Dec 22nd, 2007 +0000 UTC at 5:29 pm
Actually, ACID2 is supposed to have errors and edge cases. One of the major features of the test is determining how browsers handle error conditions.
Dec 22nd, 2007 +0000 UTC at 5:36 pm
thanks for correction Asa, thats a news to me
Mar 6th, 2008 +0000 UTC at 2:57 pm
Are you testing it at the right link? A microsoft article states a supposed security issue involving something cross-domain related with sites where the original acid2 test resides.
sites like this one – http://acid2.acidtests.org/ – shouldn’t be considered valid locations.
here’s microsoft’s blog article:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/05/why-isn-t-ie8-passing-acid2.aspx
the offical acid2 test is here:
http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html