opera and acid2
It's likely that you've already caught this one, but just in case you didn't here's a quick rundown:
- Acid2 and Opera 9 Problems? - The Web Standards Project:
We’ve received some reports here at WaSP that Opera 9 is not passing Acid2 under certain unique scenarios. We’d like to hear from you in comments if this is the case.
- Then Opera Watch mentioned it: Some questioning whether Opera 9 passes the Acid2 Test | Opera Watch
- Acid 2 in major browsers discusses the fact that some behaviours being called 'errors' are actually valid results for the test.
- Then people turned closer attention to Acid2: The Guided Tour - The Web Standards Project. Under close scrutiny it turns out that some wording is a little vague, eg.
Acid2 assumes that the browser uses a default style sheet with common values
..."common values" is open to interpretation. - Chaals explains the situation neatly: Acid burns - Out of the way - by Chaals (Charles McCathieNevile):
Unfortunately, the people who have made these reports are wrong about us not passing the test. One of the limitations of Acid2 is that it relies on a 'normal' rendering setup. Scrolling, zooming, resizing, setting minimum font size, choosing your own styles for things that are important to you, and various other things, will all break the rendering of the test. It is written that way.
During the debate - make that 'comment wars' - things tended to dissolve into Opera vs. Firefox rather than actually discussing whether Opera 9 passes Acid2. For what it's worth, my opinion based on the Acid2 documentation is that Opera 9 does pass the test. The only remaining doubt is whether one or two lines should be left when you scroll the test. If the Acid2 page is scrolled, the scalp will stay fixed in place, becoming unstuck from the rest of the face, which will scroll.
The documentation only discusses one line - that's an omission, not a failure condition.
Frankly, I think the intention of the test was to see if the smiling face would render in the first place. It does for me on all systems I've been able to test. My personal suspicion is that most of the failures are resulting from buggy installations (eg. final release installed over the top of a beta) or the page is zoomed or minimum text size is overriding the test - whether the user realises or not (it's easy to forget). Or possibly some other system glitch - there are lots of variables. If Opera 9 itself failed the test, I would have expected a more consistent result across the user base.