IE 8 Passes Acid Test

Posted in Tech,Windows Stuff — by Don on 12/20/07

Wow. It’s about time.

Internal builds of Internet Explorer 8 have passed the Acid2 test, a complex rendering test designed to demonstrate a browser’s compliance with the letter of the HTML and CSS specs. Currently, Mac OS X browsers OmniWeb and Safari and cross-platform Opera pass the test, as do the betas of Firefox 3.0.

But wait, there is more!

Better interoperability and support for web standards are high priorities for the IE8 team, according to IE general manager Dean Hachamovitch. “The key goal (for the Web Standards Project as well as many other groups and individuals) is interoperability,” wrote Hachamovitch on the IEBlog. “As a developer, I’d prefer to not have to write the same site multiple times for different browsers… With respect to standards and interoperability, our goal in developing Internet Explorer 8 is to support the right set of standards with excellent implementations and do so without breaking the existing web.” A laudable goal, to be sure, but the millions of users still on IE6 ensure that the problem won’t be going away anytime soon.

Follow the link below for the whole story.

So, once IE 8 comes out, and assuming it does everything as well as they are saying, does that mean I can stop supporting IE6? Oh man oh man oh man. Can you imagine? Make a site, test it and it works in all browsers?. I won’t know what to do with myself if I can’t complain about IE. Think of the time and energy I’ll save.

Not sure about you, but I’m actually a little excited about this.

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