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Example of a failed Acid1 test Easter egg in Internet Explorer 5 for Mac. Acid1, originally called the Box Acid Test, is a test page for web browsers.It was developed in October 1998 and was important in establishing baseline interoperability between early web browsers, especially for the Cascading Style Sheets 1.0 specification.
The Acid Tests were a series of parties held by author Ken Kesey primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area during the mid-1960s, centered on the use of and advocacy for the psychedelic drug LSD, commonly known as "acid". LSD was not made illegal in California until October 6, 1966, under Governor Ronald Reagan's administration.
Eric A. Meyer, a notable web standards advocate, wrote, "The real point here is that the Acid3 test isn't a broad-spectrum standards-support test. It's a showpiece, and something of a Potemkin village at that. Which is a shame, because what's really needed right now is exhaustive test suites for specifications—XHTML, CSS, DOM, SVG." [42]
An acid test is a qualitative chemical or metallurgical assay utilizing acid. Historically, it often involved the use of a robust acid to distinguish gold from base metals . Figuratively, the term represents any definitive test for attributes, such as gauging a person's character or evaluating a product's performance.
Pages in category "Acid tests" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Acid1; Acid2; Acid3; H. Ian ...
Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers, often called the Mobile Acid test, [1] despite not being a true Acid test, [2] is a test page published and promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to expose web page rendering flaws in mobile web browsers and other applications that render HTML. [3]
Named after the acid test for gold, it was developed in the spirit of Acid1, a relatively narrow test of compliance with the Cascading Style Sheets 1.0 (CSS1) standard. As with Acid1, an application passes the test if the way it displays the test page matches a reference image. Acid2 was designed with Microsoft Internet Explorer particularly in ...
Acid test is a qualitative chemical or metallurgical assay which uses acid, or figuratively a definitive test for some attribute, e.g. of a person's character, ...