Acid2 is a test page published and promoted by the Web Standards
Project to expose web page rendering flaws in web browsers and other
applications that render HTML. It was developed in the spirit of Acid1,
a relatively narrow test of compliance with the Cascading Style Sheets
1.0 (CSS1) standard, and was released on April 13, 2005. Like Acid1, an
application passes the test if the way it displays the test page
matches a reference image. Acid2 tests aspects of HTML markup, CSS 2.1
styling, PNG images, and data URIs. The Acid2 test page will be
displayed correctly in any application that follows the World Wide Web
Consortium and Internet Engineering Task Force specifications for these
technologies. These specifications are known as web standards because
they describe how technologies used on the web are expected to
function. While at the time of Acid2's release no web browser passed
the test, Acid2 was designed with Microsoft Internet Explorer
particularly in mind. The creators of Acid2 were dismayed that Internet
Explorer did not follow web standards and because of this Internet
Explorer was prone to display web pages differently from other
browsers. Acid2 represented a challenge to Microsoft to bring Internet
Explorer in line with web standards, making it easier to design web
pages that work as intended in any web browser.
Read the rest of this article:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid2>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1770:
British explorer James Cook and the crew of HM Endeavour made their
first landfall on Australia on the coast of Botany Bay near present-day
Sydney.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Endeavour>
1882:
German inventor Ernst Werner von Siemens began operating his
Elektromote, the world's first trolleybus, in a Berlin suburb.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/trolleybus>
1916:
World War I: Khalil Pasha of the Ottoman Army accepted the surrender of
Major-General Charles Townshend and the British Mesopotamian
Expeditionary Force, ending the Siege of Kut.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Kut>
1968:
The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture
and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opened at the Biltmore Theatre on
Broadway, with its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War
movement.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_%28musical%29>
1992:
The acquittal of policemen who had beaten motorist Rodney King sparked
civil unrest in Los Angeles that lasted for six days and killed over 50
people.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
crotchety (adj):
Cranky, disagreeable, or stubborn, especially if prone to odd whims or
fancies
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crotchety>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city,
where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give place to new, but
to the continuous evolution of zoologic types which develop ceaselessly
and end by becoming unrecognizable to the common sight, but where an
expert eye finds always traces of the prior work of the centuries past.
--Henri Poincaré
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9>