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That's pretty dumb grading. Why not flip the sense of the assert for those three tests?
by queuebert 5y ago
That's pretty dumb grading. Why not flip the sense of the assert for those three tests?
- kragen 5y agoIt's useful for statements like "Firefox 2.0 got 82/100 on the Acid3 test" to have truth-values that don't change over time. The Acid3 test is an important part of the history of the Web, and rewriting history is repugnant.
- queuebert 5y agoI meant why was it ever like that?
- kragen 5y agoIts author, Hixie, was only one of the people who decided on web standards, and he didn't win every argument, so some of the behavior that eventually got standardized wasn't the behavior Hixie thought was best at the time he wrote Acid3. He did win most of the arguments by virtue of writing the HTML5 spec, but without the buy-in of browser implementors HTML5 would have been irrelevant. Also sometimes he was wrong about things.