Where is the Mac? No, not the iMac or the Mac Pro or even the Mac Mini. I’m talking a Mac, a machine that gives me better than iMac specs without a built in monitor. I don’t need the nuclear powered Mac Pro (or it’s price) but at the same time don’t want the paltry Mac Mini. Give me something in between damn it!
IMO, Apple has missed yet another opportunity at this year’s MacWorld by not introducing such a machine.
The first Acid test was essentially to test browser compatibility for the box model. The Acid2 (try it out in the browser you’re on, Safari3 passes btw) test focused on HTML/CSS for static content.
Now Acid3 is being developed and will focus on the dynamic portion of the web, ie javascript. Finally, an Acid test I can get behind! The other Acid tests merely pointed out inconstancies in very edge cases of css and html rendering; not very useful. Acid3 ensures that javascript code written adheres to the ECMAScript spec, which is much more important in my mind.
John Resig has a good summary of the draft along with renders of the test in different browsers. (Many more here.)
More to record my own thoughts…. Let’s do the obvious ones first:
Now some not so obvious ones: