Next IE To Fail Acid Test

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited August 2005 in Science & 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

  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited August 2005
    yeah I read that on slashdot people are still recommending avoiding IE7 and sticking with firefox, due to this very thing
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    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.
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    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>
  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited August 2005
    Kwitko wrote:
    <fanboy>
    Yeah, well, that doesn't matter... ummm... because IE doesn't! Nyah! Nyah! Nyah!!
    </fanboy>

    lol


    ;D;D;D
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    It's true! One day someone will get it right ;)

    Firefox is a tad closer than IE 7 though :p
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