Jared McAteer’s Blag - jaredmcateer.com

Now that all major browsers support the Acid2, or at least have announced they have development builds that pass it, Ian “Hixie” Hickson has begun work on the Acid3. The exciting news is that it is going to focus on ECMAScript (aka. Javascript) and the DOM. The first two Acid tests focused mostly on error handling and emerging technologies of CSS. A lot of people tend to assume that if you pass the Acid tests your browser is standards compliant but they fail to realise that CSS is only a portion of Web Standards. They are important, don’t get me wrong, but most browsers are progressing along with support these days and I’m excited the focus is being shifted to an area that is somewhat neglected.

I do a lot of development in ECMAScript and work heavily in the DOM so it’s no end of frustration to support all browser’s quirks. Having the next Acid test focus on this makes me giddy, this will hopefully force Microsoft to support DOM levels 2 and 3, as of right now they only support DOM level 1 and poorly. I’m sure the guys that develop libraries like Prototype.js and jQuery will be equally as excited.

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