Hixie's Natural Log

The W3C Technical Plenary was a few weeks ago. Other than my hotel room having three separate shower heads, and the restaurants in Mandelieu-La-Napoule being worse than I remembered, there's not mu...

As many of you know, I don't have a phone. At all. No landline, no cell phone.
This week I tried to buy a new Kinesis keyboard to help with the pain in my wrists. They refused my order, because I c...

I recently finished rewatching the whole of the Stargate franchise with Carey. Here is the order in which I would recommend watching the show. This order optimises for avoiding spoilers (references...

As with everything with Acid3, the update I did earlier today ended up being more complicated than expected. It turns out the SVG working group got their errata wrong (instead of changing the stran...

One of the bugs that Acid3 found was actually a problem with the SVG spec, apparently. The SVG spec errata will be updated to say that getSubStringLength() shouldn't throw when accessing the last c...

I love my job. I really do. I work with some of the brightest
people I know, on something that is directly affecting literally a
billion people, from all walks of life, and which has the potential ...

David Baron of Mozilla discovered some errors in the Acid3 test. It turns out that the Media Queries draft changed between 2002 and 2007, and I was testing things as they stood in the 2002 version ...

In my last post I discussed what "the animation has to be smooth" means for Web browsers on computers. Of course, embedded devices also have Web browsers, and Acid3 is as important for those as it ...

The Acid3 test says "To pass the test, a browser must use its default settings, the animation has to be smooth, the score has to end on 100/100, and the final page has to look exactly, pixel for pi...

The Acid3 test has a rendering subtest that checks the positioning of text in particular conditions (absolutely-positioned generated content with embedded fonts). To get precise results, I used a s...