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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team finally revealed that their upcoming web browser has passed Acid 2 test. For those who haven’t heard of Acid 2, it’s a web standards test to determine whether the browser is complaint to the web standards. A fully complaint browser will properly display the smiling yellow face.
Internet Explorer is still the most widely adopted web browser, and this announcement will certainly bring smiles on the faces of web developers. Only Safari, Opera and Konqueror have passed this test. Firefox 3 which is expected to release in the first half of 2008, has also passed this test.
The announcement actually created a slight confusion. They said IE8 renders the Acid 2 Face correctly in "IE8 standards mode". I’m wondering if there will be another mode to render pages within Internet Explorer 8.
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wrote, on December 22nd, 2007
I’m beta-testing Firefox 3b2. Doing my bit :). I think it now has a lot of advantages over IE and since it is testing layout optimization, Windows/Linux/Mac will feel home with it.
The new address field is simply delight loaded with a lot of features. Its amazingly stable (for a beta). Anyway, sorry for going off topic. I love blabbering like this
wrote, on December 22nd, 2007
IE8….hmm…micrsoft has to comply with standards to remain in the market…they cannot take users for a ride and be so arrogant…let them make IE8 standard compatible….
wrote, on December 24th, 2007
I thought MS was only/mostly working on security issues some more, so I’m glad to hear they passed Acid 2. After reading the last paragraph, I do hope it does in fact mean they properly fixed their (default) rendering engine.
wrote, on February 25th, 2008
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