Big News: IE8 renders Acid2 correctly

Posted At : December 19, 2007 3:49 PM
Related Categories: Internet,ColdFusion,Microsoft

It's been 2 years and 9 months since the Web Standards Project issued the Acid2 challenge, and Microsoft just announced that Internet Explorer 8 correctly renders the Acid2 test. I think this is AWESOME news. Once IE8 is released and replaces IE 6/7 as the dominant browser on the 'Net (assuming that happens, of course), we web developers can FINALLY develop a standards compliant site, and it should run on IE, Firefox, Opera, and Safari. Yay!! :-)

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Frankly it's too late for me. First off - I wonder if MS will release this in stand alone mode. You know, so us web developers can test in IE6/7/8 without running -3- freaking operating systems.

Sorry - that just bugs me. ;) Even before I switched to OSX, IE had just stagnated for far too long.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 12/19/07 5:40 PM
Yep. Too late. And with no one adopting Vista - how will they roll this out? So adoption rates will be low... which means we will still have to deal with IE6.

At this point I just wish Microsoft would bag the whole project. It would make everyone's life easier. :)
# Posted By Jim Priest | 12/19/07 6:00 PM
Believe me, I am not a IE fan. In fact, I hate it with a passion, because of how Microsoft let IE 6 stagnate and thus the web stagnated along with it (standards wise). If I had my way, IE would drop down to 5-10% market share, and we wouldn't have to care about it anymore. But we all know that's not going to happen any time soon. :\

But to me, better late than never. If IE 8 is not adopted with Vista, then it will be with the next OS (and rumors say that might happen late next year). Over time, if their standards compliance continues, we'll all be better off eventually. I just hope it's sooner than later...
# Posted By Jacob Munson | 12/19/07 6:41 PM
jake, can you explaint to me which's the most important improvement in IE8?
# Posted By ivan | 3/2/08 5:31 PM
ivan,

I don't know the details, but to me the fact that we can develop standards compliant code and it will run on all browsers (in theory), including IE, is the biggest news for me coming from the IE team.
# Posted By Jacob Munson | 3/2/08 5:49 PM
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