Safari bathing in Acid2

Designing for the web can be very frustrating.

Here’s the famous workflow:

1. You code your design to the w3c standards.
2. Check it in the (relatively) standards-compliant browsers.
3. Take a deep breath.
4. Check it in MS:IE
5. …weep, and spend the next two days hacking around IE’s quirks.

IE:7 is coming – and alas, it may not change the situation…

The WebStandards Project have now unleashed The Acid2 Test.

Dave Hyatt (Safari’s Lead Developer) is relishing the challenge and seems hell-bent on making Safari the first browser to render the test properly. Even better – (and unusually for an Apple employee) – he’s telling us all about it on his blog.

(edit: Dean Edwards gives some interesting starting prices)

Any other Apple Employee showing the same level of transparency would be instantly sacked. But because WebCore is OpenSource he can, and does – and that’s groovy.

The flip-side of the coin is the IEBlog – a strange place indeed, which I have a morbid fascination with – no two posts seem to be written by the same person and it doesn’t even validate.

Reading the posts being ripped apart in the comments is always fun though… The latest post – Internet Explorer and Connection Limits is a gem.

2 comments

1. Taniec Towarzyski says:

   hmmm….:cool:

   August 28th, 2005 at 9:49 pm

2. Diggory says:

   I have to admit that IE:Blog has got a lot better recently – much more open and informative.

   August 30th, 2005 at 12:29 pm