Web Standards in the Real World: An Interview with Molly Holzschlag
Part of an interview in advance of the UI 10 conference ...
"Joshua Porter - You're an integral member of the Web Standards Project, an independent watchdog group that promotes web standards by working with design tool and browser makers to better support them. Give us an idea of how that work is going, what challenges you've met and what things you're continuing to focus on.
Molly E. Holzschlag - Acid2 is the biggest and most exciting news right now. It is a test written to help browser vendors make sure their products correctly support features that web designers would like to use. These features are part of existing standards but haven't been fully supported by major browsers. Acid2 tries to change this by challenging browsers to render Acid2 correctly before shipping. Every known browser has failed the test.
Of course, that's the point of the test. Browsers are supposed to fail, and then fix. I'm hearing really interesting stories about folks like Dave Hyatt from Safari who is fixing bugs line by line and blogging the entire experience. Mozilla Firefox tracks everything at their bug site, too. Hopefully, Opera and Microsoft will join the party and begin to openly use the test. What's more, the test isn't just for browsers, any technology testing rendering engines for XHTML, HTML, CSS and PNG support can benefit from Acid2." continued ... (Via InfoDesign)
"Joshua Porter - You're an integral member of the Web Standards Project, an independent watchdog group that promotes web standards by working with design tool and browser makers to better support them. Give us an idea of how that work is going, what challenges you've met and what things you're continuing to focus on.
Molly E. Holzschlag - Acid2 is the biggest and most exciting news right now. It is a test written to help browser vendors make sure their products correctly support features that web designers would like to use. These features are part of existing standards but haven't been fully supported by major browsers. Acid2 tries to change this by challenging browsers to render Acid2 correctly before shipping. Every known browser has failed the test.
Of course, that's the point of the test. Browsers are supposed to fail, and then fix. I'm hearing really interesting stories about folks like Dave Hyatt from Safari who is fixing bugs line by line and blogging the entire experience. Mozilla Firefox tracks everything at their bug site, too. Hopefully, Opera and Microsoft will join the party and begin to openly use the test. What's more, the test isn't just for browsers, any technology testing rendering engines for XHTML, HTML, CSS and PNG support can benefit from Acid2." continued ... (Via InfoDesign)
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