IE 8 passes the Acid 2 test
Posted on December 20th 2007 in Web Development
After having announced Internet Explorer 8 a while ago, Microsoft surprises us one more time by having successfully passed the Webstandards Acid 2 Test in standards mode. This is great news since standards compliance is not something that was readily available from any IE so far.
This doesn’t mean the new IE has all the other stuff fixed, such as layout and float peculiarities, but it’s a good start. Since this is just the “internal” vesion of IE, I am hoping there will be plenty more improvement by the time the browser hits the beta stage. Opera recently complained to the European Union about IE not having proper standards support. Having passed the Acid 2 test, IE 8 and Microsoft have fought back. Firefox has also just released its version 3 beta 2. Begin the browser wars … again.
IE8 standards mode must be set explicitly responded on 25 Jan 2008 at 4:24 pm #
[…] Compatibility seems to have been the main reason for this kind of approach in the end, as roughly half of the top 200 US web sites were in “standards mode”. A rather large discussion was spawned about this, so get ready for a few hundred comments to read. There are some really spot-on suggestions and ideas, and of course some (well deserved?) criticism. Well, at least they passed the Acid 2 Test. […]
Haxplorer’s explorations » Blog Archive » IE8 passed ACID 2 test! responded on 26 Jan 2008 at 3:44 pm #
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Acid 3 test - crash and burn responded on 06 Mar 2008 at 7:29 pm #
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