IE 8 Passes Acid2 Test

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/12/19/internet-explorer-8-and-acid2-a-milestone.aspx

by Alex3917 • 19 years ago

36 15 19 years ago

lizherring• 19 years ago

Anyone knows if Firefox passes the same test?

paulgb• 19 years ago

Firefox 3 will, current versions do not.

Opera and Safari have passed the test for a while.

robmnl• 19 years ago

This is great news for developers, thanks.

zeka• 19 years ago

Now they must realize how important it is to force-upgrade everybody to IE8 via Windows Update mechanism.

andrewfong• 19 years ago

I just hope there's an easy way to run IE7 and IE8 side-by-side. Opening a virtual machine just to do IE6 testing is a pain.

dbrush• 19 years ago

http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone

I use that, and it works well. Evolt has archived versions of approximately 7835987345 different browsers.

knarfd• 19 years ago

http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE

juanpablo• 19 years ago

... and Duke Nukem Forever will be released.

The end of the world must be near!

leoc• 19 years ago

Any hope of application/xhtml+xml support for IE 8 as well?

Kaizyn• 19 years ago

Do you think Opera's filing a complaint with the EU against Microsoft had anything to do with this announcement?

neilc• 19 years ago

No. Better standards support has been on the IE roadmap for a while. They aren't exactly breaking any speed records doing so, but this is consistent with the direction set by IE7, IMHO, and what MS has been publicly saying for quite a while.

viergroupie• 19 years ago

Praise [God|Jesus|Allah/|Turkey Baster]!

tel• 19 years ago

Now lets hope that avoiding IE8 quirks mode will be intuitive enough to make this announcement pure godsend.

edu• 19 years ago

Related? From https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289480#c172

"It looks like an object element that's pointing to a non-existent page (http://www.webstandards.org/404/) should be falling through, but that page is now returning a response status of 200 (success) instead of 404. Was it previously correctly returning a 404 response?"

tarkin2• 19 years ago

I wonder how this will affect Opera now they've filed a complaint with the European Commission....