IE8 Passes Acid2 Test
IE7 was a definite improvement over the dreadful IE6, with it’s CSS rendering problems and PNG transparency issues, to name a few.
Early beta’s of the forthcoming Internet Explorer 8 have passed the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Acid2 test according to the official IE blog.
The Acid2 test is designed to help browser programmers make browsers that are standard-compliant, by testing features that web designers either use now, or will use more extensively with CSS3.
It has been written to help browser vendors make sure their products correctly support features that web designers would like to use. The test works by displaying a smiling face if the browser is compliant. If not, the face is distorted or partially displayed in red. For more information on Acid2 visit the website.
This is good news for web designers. The headaches caused by browser incompatibilities will hopefully diminish with the next generation of browsers, including IE8. Whether it will be in that simple remains to be seen, but this is definitely a step in the right direction for IE, who have lost a huge slice of their market share to Firefox in recent years.
