Niels Leenheer (Founder/ project lead): "HTML5TEST IS DEAD [...] and that is fine"

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Ahoy folks,

I used to visit and use HTML5 tests from the official

site.

I saw in some forum posts others used it from some linux distro version.

Recently I used to check

that seems an unofficial progressing site.

I had left the original one in one browser Qupzilla as that I would not check as no more developed, but I like it on Haiku as also worked for me as when I used it.

So when I wanted to use it to see a Vimeo video that was shared on this forum, I faced with a message on top of the site from person in title – that message titled as well as in my post title with capital letters

HTML5TEST IS DEAD

In nutshell : it is dead, as it fullfilled its purpose finally,
as it was founded and used to make all browsers to use HTML5 standards (intensively) and have better browsers.

Full message HERE - below : :smiley:

HTML5TEST IS DEAD

HTML5test is dead. It’s been dead for a while. In fact it hasn’t been updated since 2016.

And that is fine. This website has served it’s purpose and helped popularise HTML5 with a general audience and developers. It pushed companies to invest in their browsers and it kept them honest. And from talking to people working for those companies over the years it worked. It helped convince people higher up to invest more resources, because nobody wants their browser to look bad.

The goal of this website was always to push browsers to adopt HTML5. To make HTML5 available for users and developers in all browsers. And if just one feature is now available to developers in all browsers thanks to HTML5test, this website has served it’s purpose. And I know for sure that it has served it’s purpose. HTML5 is now generally supported and there aren’t any truly bad browsers anymore.

I’ll try to keep this page online as a snapshot of the original test, and there is an unofficial updated version available at html5test.co.

It was fun to work on this project while it lasted. I have some awesome memories of talking to the people at the W3C, Apple, Mozilla, Google and Microsoft. Thanks for all the support over the years!

Niels Leenheer

This way I understood why was problematic simetimes to reach it - possibly it was moved to its final place meanwhile (I mean the storage server might changed to spare the costs or any else means)

Me also seen some dispute about its usefulness here, on the forum, as some version showed different sum of values as the tests completed,
but its goal was seems general and had not lied in the details of the report – to create better and nicer , quicker browsers for the users and developers - so for us.
And also gave a tool to differentiate and checks the browsers how they are adopted the new standards …

At least I interpret this way -

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I thought you were telling us someone had died :joy:

So even if the test is not moved forward it’s still a useful test if you are developing a browser.

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Edited the topic to make this clearer : P

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Well … very interesting you thought it was necessary to be modified.

I never thought somene think
HTML5TEST
would be rather someone
than something.

I think the title was obvious - even in English - but sometimes for someone might hard to understand :
titles are not full sentences, but condensed texts
especially in English.
basically containing the nost important pieces of all the story

I could have written the word “said” before the “:” in the title but I thought everyone has experience - internationally - with titles.

And … not only someone can be dead
but something as well.

Also had not seen many complaining posts about misunderstanding title.

Anyway … I let it be -
However I do not find it lesser misunderstandable than mine :wink:

:nerd_face:

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I was thinking the same thing but re-re-read it and figured out what was being conveyed.

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Just because we can … :smiley:

Browser_test
Browser_test1920Ă—1080 456 KB

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Opened apps list is already giving hints but , guessing browsers name could have been a good game if they weren’t written on title bar, or in results.

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Konqueror and Angelfish is available only for ya’ - altogether with unknown one with score 523 … as Gnome Web have 520 points for me … not 523 :j

I’m on Nightly again ( as R1B5 Youtube play in 1080p is stuttering - frequently appears reloading. In Qmplay2 it cause freeze in image and jump to later frame , meanwhile audio playback stays continuos.)

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Gnome-web produced 523 here (R1B4 64bit), Angelfish and Konqueror not available yes, not stable enough, and I’m not in the mood to hunt down bugreports, but still … not a bad score there :smiley:

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What happened to WebPositive there? AFAIR its score used to be higher.

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Not sure, it’s what it is showing for me. Maybe scores are different at your end?

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Only Web (epiphany) doesn’t show it’s name in the title bar, the others are obvious. :slight_smile:

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I wonder how many tests are false positive for WebPositive. Anyhow the test is fairly meaningless by now, many apis are “neat” but nothing one needs to support unless one wants to support webapps, and for me that bar is simply too high with the limited time of dev
(e.g webmidi, webluetooth, rotation api, battery status api, etc)