First Internet Explorer 8 news - nails Acid2 test
Other than the small news item that Internet Explorer 8 is under development, the IE team today announced the first real details, they've said the current build of IE8 in standards mode successfully renders the Acid2 test.
This means that it is more standards compliant than both Firefox and Safari.
Hopefully Microsoft can find away to ensure both good standards support, as well as solid backwards compatibility and hopefully a beta version isn't too far out.
Categories: Technology Tags: internet explorer
19th December 2007 23:12:23, 75 words, 359 views
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Comment from: Mark Sowul [Visitor]
"This means that it is more standards compliant than both Firefox and Safari."
That's utter rubbish. Safari has passed Acid2 for 2 years. Gecko has since last year, hence Firefox 3 will as well, and that is already in beta, so IE8 will probably be the last major browser to support it.
Sure, I use IE, but let's not pretend that it is anything close to the winner vis-a-vis standards compliance. We won't see IE8 for at least six more months.
That's utter rubbish. Safari has passed Acid2 for 2 years. Gecko has since last year, hence Firefox 3 will as well, and that is already in beta, so IE8 will probably be the last major browser to support it.
Sure, I use IE, but let's not pretend that it is anything close to the winner vis-a-vis standards compliance. We won't see IE8 for at least six more months.
20th December 2007 @ 01:45
Comment from: Mark Sowul [Visitor]
Nit-picker's corner: by "we won't see it" I mean "we won't see it publicly released yet." Betas don't count.
20th December 2007 @ 01:47
Comment from: Paul Smith [Member] · http://www.dasmirnov.net/
Firefox 3 Beta 1 doesn't render it properly here, neither does the third beta of Safari. Maybe you should try testing your claim. I did before posting.
20th December 2007 @ 01:49
Comment from: Mark Sowul [Visitor]
"As of December 19, 2007, the ACID2 test is broken and does not pass in any previously compliant browser."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid2
20th December 2007 @ 12:54