IE8 passes important test

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited December 2007 in Science & Tech
<p>The Acid2 test is an <a href="http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9836106-7.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20">important step</a> in the development of a browser. It's an unofficially official test that stresses the compliance of the browser to accepted HTML and CSS standards. To date, no version of Internet Explorer has succeeded in this test, while most alternative browsers have been passing for years.</p>
<p>With a beta expected in the first half of 2008, Internet Explorer 8 has passed the test and is moving forward with a focus on standards compliance. The major challenge for the IE dev team will be supporting the broken legacy rendering levied by IE6 while looking to the future with a standardized internet.</p>
<p>The final version is quite a long way off, and all good things are subject to change, but the birth of IE's newest iteration is a happy one.</p>
<p>See also: <a href="http://icrontic.com/news/2_browsers_1_crybaby">2 Browsers, 1 Crybaby</a> & <a href="http://icrontic.com/news/opera_kicks_the_hornets_nest">Opera Kicks the Hornet's Nest</a> (Via Icrontic)</p>

Comments

  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    I'm impressed, but I'm also tempted to say, "So, what's the catch?" Maybe it really is no more and no less than it simply will pass the standards test. If true, that really is good news.
  • ZuntarZuntar North Carolina Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    They'll bloat it out, don't worry.
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    Leonardo wrote:
    Maybe it really is no more and no less than it simply will pass the standards test.
    I'm inclined to believe that's what it is. Molly Holzschlag, standardista-extraordinaire, has the insider's view as a community representative to Microsoft.
  • jaredjared College Station, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    Wow, I met Molly at the Webmaster Jam Session this summer... that is one crazy lady. If anyone has an obsession... err I mean passion about standards it is her. :cool:

    Passing Acid2 is a important step but they are still years behind the curve here. Of course this is MS we are talking about so I guess that shouldn't be a surprise.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    jared wrote:
    Wow, I met Molly at the Webmaster Jam Session this summer... that is one crazy lady. If anyone has an obsession... err I mean passion about standards it is her. :cool:

    Passing Acid2 is a important step but they are still years behind the curve here. Of course this is MS we are talking about so I guess that shouldn't be a surprise.

    firefox 2 fails the test...

    http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html

    i don't know about opera.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    The Firefox wizards are hoping to have version 3.0 pass.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    Opera correctly renders, as it almost always has. Also, there was a bug in the Acid2 test itself where it incorrectly returned a 200 error instead of a 404 or something, and if it's still broken, that might be why Firefox is failing it at the moment.
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