They’ve not been used in a long time purely because all modern browsers pass them, but they’re completely logical to use for developing a new rendering engine from scratch, which happens to be exactly what the Servo team is doing.
Just as one wouldn’t judge a child on what his first words were, Servo cannot be judged on what tests it can pass in the months or years before being released to the public.
This is cool, but is Acid2 really valid anymore? In fact are any of the Acid tests really used anymore?
They’ve not been used in a long time purely because all modern browsers pass them, but they’re completely logical to use for developing a new rendering engine from scratch, which happens to be exactly what the Servo team is doing.
Just as one wouldn’t judge a child on what his first words were, Servo cannot be judged on what tests it can pass in the months or years before being released to the public.