> Ácido nos olhos dos outros é refresco - artigo de Hakon Lie, viking que
> inventou o CSS e o browser Opera:

> http://news.com.com/The+Acid2+challenge+to+Microsoft/2010-1032_3-5618...

> >Microsoft has repeatedly promised full support for key Web standards in
> >Internet Explorer. Here, with reference to the World Wide Web Consortium
> >(W3C), is what the company said in 1998.

> >(...) To ensure that IE 7 does not become another failed promise, the Web
> >community will issue a challenge to Microsoft. We will produce a test
> >page, code-named Acid2, that will actively use features Web designers
> >crave, such as fixed positioning of elements.

> Acid2?

> http://webstandards.org/act/acid2/guide.html

> >Acid2 is a test page for web browsers published by The Web Standards
> >Project (WaSP). (...) Acid2 assumes basic support for HTML4, CSS1, PNG,
> >and Data URLs.

> No link, pormenorizam todos os detalhes envolvidos no teste. Curiosamente,
> o Opera, Firefox e claro, IE, se embanaram em realizar o teste. Firefox
> menos que os demais.

> Conceito novo pra mim: Data URL. Os "olhos" da imagem usada no teste, é um
> arquivo PNG dentro de uma tag object. Mas ao invés do atributo data
> apontar
> a URI do arquivo, temos isto:

> <object data="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAA...CC">

> Aonde no lugar dos três pontinhos, haviam uns 10kbytes de código ASCII,
> que
> era o conteúdo de um PNG, imagino.

> Oram vejam: Você pode embutir imagens na descrição do HTML. A coisa é
> inclusive proposta padronizada
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/objects.html#h-13.3.1). Mas os browsers
> não se tocaram para este suporte, pelo que vi.

> Agora que vi o Acid2, que fui me tocar que e-mails cujas as imagens estão
> anexadas, usam script correlato.

> Voltando ao primeiro link:

> >As the test name implies, this will be the second acid test put forward
> >for Web browsers. The original acid test, created by Todd Fahrner in
> 1997,
> >was instrumental in ensuring interoperability between browsers in their
> >CSS1 implementations. The existence of the acid test forced browser
> >vendors to fix their implementations or face embarrassment; the test was
> >created so that testers could easily see which browsers failed the test.

> E termina com um recado:

> >To the IE 7 developers, I want to say:

> >You are smart and talented. You know Web standards as well as anyone. You
> >were capable of fixing IE in the past, but your managers didn't let you.
> >You now have a new chance to get it right--don't waste it. Download Acid2
> >when it's released and get in touch if you think it's unfair for any
> >reason. Resist pressure from management to ship before you are
> done--spend
> >the extra time it takes. When they say you can't change how pages are
> >rendered as this may "break" pages, tell them about quirks mode and
> strict
> >mode.

> >Show them that other browsers get it right. Explain how embarrassing it
> >will be to release a browser that doesn't live up to community standards
> >and that the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox, Apple Computer's Safari and
> >Opera will increase their user share as a result.

> >What you do is important. The Web will thank you for your efforts.

> >To the Web community I want to say: Microsoft has now been challenged.
> >They will respond, if enough people remind them of the challenge. Please
> >remind them. And, when IE 7 is released, make sure this is the first
> thing
> >you type into it:

> Ei, aposto 1kg de gelo na Microsoft.