I the Acid 3 test even relevant now? The Acid 2 test seem to make browser strive to be semi Standards-compliant and in a very forward looking way. No browser was suppose to pass the Acid 2 test for a wile it was a test like the x-prize. The Acid 2 test was to expose web page rendering flaws in browsers and applications that render HTML code. It was to help expose the need to drive standards in a very entropic environment.
For grown on the web to work there needs to be some underlying standards, but information and innovation occur so quickly that there is not a necessity for all parts to be standardized because they will change and die out to quickly.
The Acid 3 test seems to have lost some relevance as to the Acid 2 test. Browsers seem to have raced to pass the test not to realize the ideas and goals of standardization. they raced blindly to be the first to pass and not to increase the usability of the browser or accessibility for those that are visually impaired. Browsers makers have missed out on the opportunity to understand what standards are needed and are forming and those that need to be let by the wayside. Instead they all say look at me I passed a standards test.
To day on my ride to work i encountered a very short light, while being on a bike it is difficult to make it across in the prescribed time and more so difficult riding the recumbent bike. I made it across OK, but a gentleman turning left was kind enough to allow me safe passage that was until he pulled up next to me window rolled down and began verbally degrading asking if i knew what a red light was. Of course i do i do drive a car but i choose to ride a bike to work because i enjoy it, and other economic and environmental reasons. I continued on an ignored the jerk and made it to work safely.
What dives a person into a verbal conflict when he could have just let me be. Did he feel because he was in his armored cocoon he had the right to tell me how to share the road. For those that ride a bike you learn that many people in cars disregard sharing the road and near run-over biker as if biker are inconveniencing a person a whole 30 sec to slow down a pass around safely (That is if they are considerate enough).
Is This metal cocoon what contributes to road rage a secluded environment that one has been detached from reality a feels they are in there own universe. As a biker you maneuver a reality that is hostile a life-threatening, but what would happen if more people road bike leafing there metal armor behind could the roads be more friendly. there is not that large metal buckler to hide behind giving one a false sense of bravado. I would like to think that people would be a little more considerate.
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