Comments on: IE8 Passes Acid2 Test – too good to be true? http://wpgarage.com/shorties/ie8-passes-acid2-test-too-good-to-be-true/ wordpress tricks, hacks, and tips Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:40:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ryan http://wpgarage.com/shorties/ie8-passes-acid2-test-too-good-to-be-true/#comment-818 Ryan Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:01:08 +0000 http://wordpressgarage.com/shorties/ie8-passes-acid2-test-too-good-to-be-true/#comment-818 A video interview with the IE8 developers: <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=BoSkc6zPtLQ" rel="nofollow">Part One</a> <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=HoocGSCZyHM" rel="nofollow">Part Two</a> <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=IpTzuTIcjIU" rel="nofollow">Part Three</a> <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=hH1KV8kQ5no" rel="nofollow">Part Four</a> A video interview with the IE8 developers:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four

]]> By: Ryan http://wpgarage.com/shorties/ie8-passes-acid2-test-too-good-to-be-true/#comment-817 Ryan Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:09:35 +0000 http://wordpressgarage.com/shorties/ie8-passes-acid2-test-too-good-to-be-true/#comment-817 <a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3683996#post3683996" rel="nofollow">IE8 doesn't pass Acid2 test?</a> IE8 doesn’t pass Acid2 test?

]]> By: Ryan http://wpgarage.com/shorties/ie8-passes-acid2-test-too-good-to-be-true/#comment-816 Ryan Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:34:23 +0000 http://wordpressgarage.com/shorties/ie8-passes-acid2-test-too-good-to-be-true/#comment-816 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 <strong>all</strong> 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. 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.

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