The tweet mentions that this is an arbitrary metric thrust upon them by Apple, so I don’t think they would necessarily disagree with you. During the monthly updates they do also show the passing number of tests without including the encoding tests because of how much they skew things.
Acid 2 bakes in the assumption that you will be displaying it on a desktop/laptop monitor with 100% scaling; It depends on pixel accuracy.
This was a reasonably universal assumption in 2005, but became less and less valid over time, we now have high-dpi screens and the whole idea of pixel accuracy has fallen out of favour (it was never a good idea, but 2005) as phone browsers are expected to rescale websites for better readability/usability.
The result is that Acid 2 fails on my phone, and on my laptop it will pass/fail depending on which screen the window is on.
Acid 3 was too forwards looking and rigid. While Acid 2 was (mostly) testing accepted standards (which IE6 implemented very poorly), Acid 3 tested a bunch of draft standards. It was very strict on many things that weren't well defined and later versions of the standards took the opposite approach.
Basically, Acid 2 was very good at shaming Microsoft into fixing Internet Explorer; But in the long run the whole concept of popular cherry picked torture tests proved to be of limited usefulness (and actually counterproductive) to promoting standards compliant browsers.
They no longer reflect what the average user expects their browser to support. You can pass it and miss on several important things that are considered widespread features nowadays.
Do you have any plans to backup the software and ROMs to archive.org? Lack of access to the ROMs has been a stumbling point for creating an emulator for this system.
As the article states the Fed has to balance two mandates, controlling inflation and strong employment. Unfortunately as is often the case in life these 2 goals are sometimes at odds with each other. The Fed also has limited and very crude tools at its disposal. If employment numbers looked good and inflation was not at the goal rate then we likely would not have seen an interest rate cut, but employment numbers have been weak and look to be trending worse so we get a 1/4 point cut hoping the spur to employment will outweigh the effect on inflation.
I worked remotely from home for 12 years and never thought that. 80-90% of my work day was interacting with people. I could have used a little less interaction with work colleagues many days. Then there was the in person interaction with friends and family after work and on weekends.
Is it still an order if you make it yourself? I can’t remember the last time I ordered a coffee at a coffee shop but I make myself a sugar-free pistachio latte every morning.
Opera moved away from presto in 2013 which is 2 years before Microsoft introduced their EdgeHTML engine and 7 years before the final EdgeHTML based version of the Edge browser.
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