Next IE To Fail Acid Test

2 Aug, 2005 at 7:14pm ET Article published in Tech

In its browser blog, Microsoft acknowledged that IE 7 would not pass the Web Standards Project’s Acid2 test, which examines a browser’s support for W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) recommendations including CSS1 (Cascading Style Sheets), HTML4 and PNG (Portable Network Graphics).

“We will not pass this test when IE7 ships,” Chris Wilson, lead program manager for the Web platform in IE, wrote in the IE blog. “We fully recognize that IE is behind the game today in CSS support. We’ve dug through the Acid2 test and analyzed IE’s problems with the test in some great detail, and we’ve made sure the bugs and features are on our list–however, there are some fairly large and difficult features to implement, and they will not all sort to the top of the stack in IE7.”

Hmmm…

Source: News.com

Comments

2 Aug 2005 ~ 7:55pm TheBaron yeah I read that on slashdot people are still recommending avoiding IE7 and sticking with firefox, due to this very thing
2 Aug 2005 ~ 8:08pm primesuspect Why isn't anybody talking about the fact that NO currently released browser can pass the Acid II test?

Not firefox - not konqueror - not opera nor safari.

ArsTechnica has a good look at this.
2 Aug 2005 ~ 8:16pm Kwitko

primesuspect wrote:

Not firefox - not konqueror - not opera nor safari.

<fanboy>
Yeah, well, that doesn't matter... ummm... because IE doesn't! Nyah! Nyah! Nyah!!
</fanboy>
2 Aug 2005 ~ 9:23pm Jengo

Kwitko wrote:

<fanboy>
Yeah, well, that doesn't matter... ummm... because IE doesn't! Nyah! Nyah! Nyah!!
</fanboy>

lol
3 Aug 2005 ~ 1:08am Shorty It's true! One day someone will get it right

Firefox is a tad closer than IE 7 though