IE8 Passes Acid2 Test – too good to be true?
SitePoint has reported that IE8 has passed the Acid2 Test. As they explain, this test was developed “as a challenge to browser developers. In a single page, the test makes use of a broad range of features from several different web standards that developers have wanted to have in browsers for some time, and it uses them to display a deceptively simple smiley face.”
In short, passing the test means a browser meets web standards.
If IE8 has passed this test, this may mean the end of annoying hacks and workarounds to get sites to work in IE. An even more exciting result of this could be the end of CSS layouts made with floats etc., and the beginning of the ability to use CSS tables.
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Unfortunately I imagine we’ll be stuck with IE6 and IE7 for quite some time yet as lots of people will take a REALLY long time to upgrade.
The Acid2 test doesn’t cover all of the W3C standards either, so just passing the Acid2 test doesn’t mean that the browser is fully standards compliant. Here’s a link to the official Acid2 test … http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html#top
Last I heard, it rendered correctly in the latest versions of Opera, Safari, Konquerer, beta Firefox3.0 and now Microsoft’s in-house test version of IE8.
IE8 doesn’t pass Acid2 test?
A video interview with the IE8 developers:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four