IE8 Passed Acid2 Test 1 Attachment(s) Although he goes out of its way to downplay the significance of the event, there is no missing the sense of achievement in the words of Microsoft?s Dean Hachamovitch on the IEBlog today: Quote:
The First Browser to support Acid2 test was Safari 2.0.2, back in November 2005. Since then, iCab and Konqueror have announced their own support. The current beta of Firefox 3 comes close, but isn?t there just yet. With this announcement, it looks like Internet Explorer may actually beat it to the punch! At the time this post was published, the Web Standards Project?s web server had collapsed under the strain of traffic generated by this announcement, but thanks to the Internet Archive I was able to collect this list of new features that we can now infer will be supported in IE8:
Microsoft is promising to release a beta of Internet Explorer 8 in the first half of 2008. The big question for web designers who will be hoping for swift adoption of the new browser: will it run on Windows XP, or require an upgrade to Vista? As Dave Shea of the CSS Zen Garden put it, ?Better bundle up, it?s a cold one in hell today.? Microsoft has published a fascinating video record of the rendering of the Acid2 test in internal builds of IE8 over the past six months. The video also includes an in depth interview with Dean Hachamovitch and Chris Wilson. Recommended viewing with a few holiday warm-and-fuzzys from Microsoft. |
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