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They didn't cherry pick tests. These weren't written by someone else. They wrote tests for the features they decided to implement. Why would they work on tests right now for features they aren't implementing now?

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I am pretty sure they prefer to implement features for tests competing browsers fail.

good joke :)

Come on. Given the option, between two equally complex features, it's preferable to implement the one your competitors got wrong because it offers the more bang for your programmer buck.

This is why the Google Sputnik test results not only shows what percentage of tests pass, but also groups browsers together based on which tests they pass in common (i.e. a crude measure of interoperability).

http://sputnik.googlelabs.com/compare

Guess which browser is the outlier in both dimensions?

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