IE8 Passes Acid2 Test
Internet Explorer General Manager Dean Hachamovitch writes to inform everybody that the Acid2 face now gets rendered correctly in IE8 standards mode.
While it is important to note that while the test itself does not test all web standards, it is still a very significant achievement for the dominant web browser. More importantly, this means that IE8 now:
- Interprets positioning correctly
- Renders the box model correctly
- Parses attribute selectors correctly
- Supports the object element
What’s interesting to see is how IE8 will render hacks that were developed to fix IE6 and IE7’s “quirks”, since it appears that IE8 is just an updated version of the IE7 engine. It took them a while, and it’s about time. Now how about getting Firefox to pass the test?
December 26th, 2007 at 2:53 am
Firefox has been passing Acid2 for about a year in the Firefox 3 pre-releases which you can actually download and evaluate for yourself.
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December 31st, 2007 at 2:07 am
FireFox 3 passes the Acid2 test (the only thing I saw was a tiny change in the size render on one element)
It is fucked to let IE get the headline first.
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