- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:27:13 +0200
- To: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Cc: www-font@w3.org
Also sprach John Hudson:
> > > I'd like to see Acid 4 limit itself to actual W3C web recommendations.
>
> > That would make the test much less valuable for interoperability
> > purposes. For example, JavaScript is essential for today's web apps
> > and it's not a W3C Rec. The same goes for TTF/OpenType, the payload
> > which WOFF carries.
>
> That's reasonable, but I think the documentation of the test should
> clarify the status of the individual test objects, vis à vis web
> standards, and explain what is being tested and why. Testing handling of
> TTF/OTF as a delivered payload is different from giving the impression
> that the test requires a browser to support download of raw TTF/OTF files.
I agree that documentation is important. For Acid2, we wrote a
comprehensive guide which tries to explain the whats and the whys:
http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2/guide/
Cheers,
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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