Servo Web Engine Now Passing Acid2 Layout Engine Test

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Servo Web Engine Now Passing Acid2 Layout Engine Test

The Servo web engine developers have enjoyed a busy April with a number of new features added to this Rust creation...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Passing-Acid2

[dlq84]

You made me think of IE and its total inability to render that thing, I'm so glad we're past that era.

[LinAGKar]

Does the acid guy have a cold?

[ehansin]

Good job Servo!

https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/635906b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1548x2000+0+0/resize/2048x2646!/quality/90/?url=http:%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2F1c%2Fca%2Fa5b92363486cb70149c5db83f8c5%2F22 7n10167-btsc3-02-a.jpg

Jokes aside (picture linked more of a funny than anything), glad to see progress with this. The browser plays such a prominent role in modern computing, nice to see some potential competition happening. Another reason I am so glad for Mozilla/Firefox as well, even if there can be some issue with some of what they chase after. Having a single company, whose revenue model is based on advertising run the whole show is not a good thing.

[bug77]

I wasn't even aware Acid2 is still a thing. I'm using Vivaldi browser lately (in addition to Firefox). Vivaldi is based on Chromium... and fails Acid2.

[Emmanuel Deloget]

I wasn't even aware Acid2 is still a thing. I'm using Vivaldi browser lately (in addition to Firefox). Vivaldi is based on Chromium... and fails Acid2.

Some things that are tested by Acid3 are no longer considered a wise move for modern web browser. The Acid3 test is now 17 years old . The Acid2 test is even older, but it should not use anything that has been removed/changed (CSS2 is still part of the game and should render correctly).

For those interested, I cannot find the Acid2 test on the official page (https://acid2.acidtests.org/) but it's still available (and there is a certificate error on this page which I find quite disturbing) on the WebStandard Project page (https://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html#top). Be sure to not have any level of zoom or unzoom when you want to see how your browser works with this test.

[onlyLinuxLuvUBack]

wait till they rewrite it in rust

[anarki2]

Cool I guess, except the test link points to a self-signed cert, then it's a 404.

[cutterjohn]

Good job Servo!

https://sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/635906b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1548x2000+0+0/resize/2048x2646!/quality/90/?url=http:%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2F1c%2Fca%2Fa5b92363486cb70149c5db83f8c5%2F22 7n10167-btsc3-02-a.jpg

Jokes aside (picture linked more of a funny than anything), glad to see progress with this. The browser plays such a prominent role in modern computing, nice to see some potential competition happening. Another reason I am so glad for Mozilla/Firefox as well, even if there can be some issue with some of what they chase after. Having a single company, whose revenue model is based on advertising run the whole show is not a good thing.

picture is more an amusing anecdote of days gone by.. happier times, when people were less judgemental...

[microcode]

Funny enough, Chromium and Firefox both don't render Acid2 correctly... but at least the desktop versions of these will render it correctly once, just the first time that you open it at 1x scale... but if you zoom in or out or resize the window, it will never render correctly again until you open it manually in another tab from the URL (not by duplicating the tab). Firefox doesn't mangle it quite as bad, but it does mangle it.