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Konqueror Passes the Acid2 Test Too

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the anything-you-can-do dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A month after Safari , and after a lot of controversy, Allan Sandfeld Jensen announced today that Konqueror passes the Acid2 test too. Half of the patches could be merged from Apple's Webcore, the rest needed to be rewritten from scratch."

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  1. Re:Acid2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/

    basically it's a rigorous test that ensures that a browser has all the goodies that web developers have been lusting after forever.

  2. Re:Does Firefox pass it? by CTho9305 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Gecko (the engine used in Firefox and Mozilla) probably won't be passing it too soon. See Robert O'Callahan's blog entry here. This means Firefox 1.1 won't pass Acid2.

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  3. Re:Acid2 by JimDabell · · Score: 4, Informative

    It does both. I've seen this misconception stated a few times now, it's just wrong.

    The Acid test is not just a test for error handling. Error handling is something that is defined by the CSS 2.1 specification (and earlier specifications). In order to test full CSS compliance, they need to include errors as part of the test. This does not mean that all the test does is error handling, merely that it is one of the things the test does.

  4. Re:stop distorting facts by bluGill · · Score: 4, Informative

    The developer in question was not mad at Apple per say, they were doing what was required. He was mad at people thinking Apple was doing something useful for KDE/khtml. Apple was not making things useful for KDE, but they were fullfilling all their obligations.

    Once he spoke against those non-Apple, non-KDE people, those people tried to deflect the blame to Apple. Apple to their credit realized how the publicity was hurting them and changed their ways.

    Once again, the KDE devs were not mad at Apple. They were disgusted because of being unable to get something useful, but not mad. They were mad at people who thought without checking that Apple was doing something useful.

  5. Re:Kick to the pants. by Anonymous+Froward · · Score: 5, Informative
    You were close, but you missed the point of konq guy (see see this post) when you began talking about the "problems" of Webcore code. The konq guy's message was more or less like this as far as I can see:

    When Konqueror doesn't follow Safari's new feature within 4 hours, don't blame us. When Konqueror finally follows Safari's feature list, don't automatically praise Apple, either.

    It's not like Apple is giving out some drop-in patch, but that's OK. That's their right. Sometimes we take their patch, but sometimes we write things from scratch. When we'll use Apple's code, we'll be slow because of the way they produce their patch, not because we're lazy.

    Apple is OK for me, but please stop bashing our laziness while praising opensource-friendliness of Apple. That hurts.