Talk:Acid2

Image permission issues
I'm wondering if there are any outstanding OTRS related image permission issues having to do with the Acid2 test? It doesn't appear to be that way, but I figure I ought to ask here.-Andrew c [talk] 22:49, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Comments on Acid2 being a featured article
Thank you for pursuing this as a featured article candidate. I found the content interesting and it provided for interactivity in that I could test my desktop tools against the topic of the article. It caught and kept my attention, as a featured article (ideally) should. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 01:17, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Failure of the Acid tests to pass validation checks
I saw the validation issue referenced in the Talk comments about Trivia, and I'm concerned because now the article is featured and there's only oblique mention of this deliberate artifact. The whole issue can be written off to the fact that like any useful test suite, Acid2 checks to see how gracefully the test subject fails. However, folks without formal SW engineering training don't know that. Sigh... and even if the article wasn't featured, I couldn't “fix” it, as I'm named as a source in the article (which is appropriate, but not for any reason that I ever figured would be known outside of WaSP). Persist1 (talk) 09:26, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Looks ok in IE8
it looks pretty much the same as the reference model except for circles aroud the eyes in IE8, stupid way to judge browser rendering 'compatibility', maybe these clowns should make up there own browser since microsoft is only good at monopolizing inferior companies with superior products. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.207.125.124 (talk) 21:56, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Epiphany
Just tried in Epiphany, but it appears different from the reference appearance.--Dojarca (talk) 21:58, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Date and Versions needed
I tagged the word "now" with when because it could be in the past and no longer current. Also I found the latest Firefox 3.0.10 fails Acid2 (I created a clean profile and used http://acid2.acidtests.org/#top and it shows a red bar across the eyes). Opera 9.63 build 10476 passes. Google Chrome 1.0.154.59 passes. I use Windows Vista Home Premium. 84user (talk) 09:43, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
 * "Now" is current. Firefox 3 passes Acid2. I'm not sure why it wouldn't on your computer, but you shouldn't edit articles based on such original research. -- Schapel (talk) 12:11, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
 * my pc/firefox (win xp32bit) shows the acid test correct --> teh red bar disappered immediately! mabdul 17:34, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

"Use of Acid2-conformant web browsers" chart data
Since Hitslink, the source of this data has, as of August 1st, decided to implement retroactive country-level weighting in their reports, this chart can no longer be progressively updated using the linear data from the same source url. A couple of the options available are changing all the data in the chart back to 2005 based on the new weighted reports, and switching to using a median of various data sources.Mardeg (talk) 00:11, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

"at the time of Acid2's release no web browser passed the test"
Then wherewith did they render the proof bitmap?! -lysdexia 17:47, 6 September 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.106.153.159 (talk)


 * Either by hand or with a special tool. —Remember the dot (talk) 20:15, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Current market support
The chart indicating the percentage of browsers that support Acid2 needs to be updated. I checked the source, and as of November 09 more than 52% of web browsers are acid2 compliant. Althepal (talk) 21:21, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Firefox 3.6 and 4 fail Acid 2?
When I do it at http://acid2.acidtests.org/, the nose is just slightly off. After I got Firefox 4, I tried it again, and I got the same result. Is this reported anywhere? 72.204.16.182 (talk) 23:43, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

I just checked it in Firefox 5.0 and Chrome 14.0.803.0 dev and both of them render the nose a few pixels higher than the reference rendering. It would be nice to find a third-party source for this fact to meet Wikipedia's draconian citation requirements so it could be added to the article. --MarkGyver (talk) 11:21, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
 * The nose is slightly off because the test was created using an older version of Firefox (see ). The Cairo library wasn't adopted until FF3, and it changed the way borders were laid out. This behavior does not mean that FF fails Acid2. --Gyrobo (talk) 16:34, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

FA in need of review
This Featured Article has never been reviewed since its promotion in 2009. Issues spotted:


 * The "Officially released" subsection is completely unsourced;
 * Also, isn't this list a bit of a duplicate of "Timeline of passing applications"?


 * Article needs citation clean-up, many of the citations are not well-formatted;
 * Article uses too many primary sources from developers themselves instead of using available secondary news sources or even scholarly sources;
 * Here we have a comparison between Acid2 and Acid3 (successor), could be used; More comparisons between Acid2 and Acid3;
 * No follow up since 2010? No retrospective commentary? There's a bit of commentary here on why passing the test was "a significant step" for Microsoft.

Article needs a bit of clean-up/update. RetiredDuke (talk) 23:45, 9 November 2020 (UTC)