Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Dec 2007 21:48 UTC, submitted by RJop
"As a team, we've spent the last year heads down working hard on IE8. Last week, we achieved an important milestone that should interest web developers. Internet Explorer 8 now renders the 'Acid2 Face' correctly in IE8 standards mode." Insert freezing and hell joke.
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Call me ignorant but - what's the point of the Acid2 test? Does it have any real world relevance or is it just a technical exercise?
I wonder what happened to the original idea of HTML - being a content markup language with the web browser being a user configurable reader. In the beginning, the web page would simply mark paragraphs, headers, lists etc as such and the web browser would display them using the fonts and colors the user specified. That way, everyone could read web pages using his favorite fonts using the colors that were best for his display and eyes.
Now everyone tries to nail everything on a web page to a precise pixel position, regardless of what screen resolution, web browser or system fonts a user has set. This is causing problems for users with eyes or monitors that are not as good as the designers'. Some people need large fonts and high contrast colors to read their pages. Why invent tons of new HTML features that take away the users' freedom to pick their own fonts and colors?