Dec19
You heard it somewhere else first: IE8 reportedly passes the Acid2 test. I’ve seen many reports of this, but none of them have read between the lines and translated it into an implicit set of new features for IE8’s HTML and CSS support: proper object support with content fallback, min- and max-height and width, CSS tables, and generated content. It also implies bug fixes for collapsing margins. These are the things tested by Acid2 which would’ve failed in IE7. If we get as much on the JavaScript side as we’ve apparently received on the HTML/CSS side, this will be the largest step forward the web has seen in a decade.
December 21st, 2007 at 3:24 am (Quote ↓)
Yeah, read it elsewhere.
If they manage to get this level of standards support, and much improved fault tolerance into the final version of IE8, the results will be staggering.
The productivity of web developers will increase substantially, and chances are that (some of us) will be able to deliver client work more predictably, since we won’t have to spend frantic hours trying to get that b*tch to behave as much as before.
Good news as it is, it will still be a couple of years before we can give up on IE6 and IE7. But it’s good to know that Microsoft has picked up the pace and are actively working to improve the worst browser out there.
Now we just need them to communicate a bit more frequently, so we have an idea of how bad we need to patch our current work to support IE6 in the future ;-)
December 21st, 2007 at 12:44 pm (Quote ↓)
I was very happy to read this as well, but….
Is it just me or does anyone else get the feeling that, even despite this, there will always be something they’ll be behind on? It’s the nature of a huge behemoth of an organization like themselves…
So, I must regretfully accept this news with cautious elation.