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My favourite part was IE2 getting 93/100 on the Acid3 test.

Yeah that's weird. I don't understand how that happened. If anyone happens to have IE2 around I'd love to be able to study this.

The install's floating around in a lot of places; for example: http://www.oldversion.com/Internet_Explorer.html; or as part of this multiple-version package: http://utilu.com/IECollection/.

When I tried loading the Acid Tests websites in IE2 (from the utilu collection on XP SP2) it gave me the error "Site Temporarily Unavailable (error id: 'bad_httpd_conf')". Not sure what's up.

As he said in the video, IE1/2 don't send a hosts header with their request and thus can't access most sites, ACID included. You'll have to download the test and all necessary files to a local disk in order to run it.

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