Re: Web Browser Standards Support

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Thank you.

Anne van Kesteren wrote:

>
> Quoting Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>:
>
>> Le 05-12-14 à 19:26, Anne van Kesteren a écrit :
>>
>>> Quoting Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>:
>>>
>>>> I haven't had the chance to evaluate the report but it seems
>>>> interesting. It shows for example that HTML 4.01 is far to be
>>>> implemented, even if we read often the opposite here and there.
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind of hard to do for browsers without proper testsuites and
>>> without HTML 4.01
>>> being fixed for error handling and other ambiguous cases.
>>
>>
>> Yes agreed Anne.
>> Kind of surprising that
>>     * Safari (Dave Hyatt), - W3C Member
>>     * Mozilla (Ian Hickson) - W3C Member, and
>>     * Opera (Anne Van Kesteren, ex Ian Hickson) - W3C Member
>> haven't committed to finish the completion of the [HTML 4.01 Test
>> Suite][1] initially started by Microsoft (Tantek Çelik) and the WASP
>>  released in… 2003!
>
>
> Ian Hickson represents Google last time I checked ;-) Opera, together 
> with
> Mozilla, did make a proposal to continue this work some time ago:
> <http://www.w3.org/2004/04/webapps-cdf-ws/papers/opera>
>
> I believe there has been some pushing as well to do some HTML 4.01 
> errata or
> have some (X)HTML interop work started similar to CSS 2.1 but that has 
> never
> started. And therefore: Web Apps 1.0 (HTML5).
>
>
>> I haven't found also a Test Suite for Web Apps 1.0 and WebForms 2.0
>> as well. Do you know if it exists?
>
>
> There will soon be a public testsuite for Web Forms 2 if all goes well.
> Web Apps
> has to wait a little longer I guess. Parts of the specification are 
> not yet
> finalized and parts might be taken over by the W3C. (Drag & drop,
> XMLHttpRequest, etc.)
>
> Some simple canvas tests are out there:
> <http://hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/html/canvas/>
> <http://annevankesteren.nl/test/html/canvas/>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anne
>
>
> -- 
> Anne van Kesteren
> <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
>
>
>
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Received on Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:33:02 UTC