IE 8 Passes Acid2 Test

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36 points·Alex3917··15 comments

... and Duke Nukem Forever will be released.

The end of the world must be near!

Now they must realize how important it is to force-upgrade everybody to IE8 via Windows Update mechanism.

This is great news for developers, thanks.

"It looks like an object element that's pointing to a non-existent page (http://www.webstandards.org/404/) should be falling through, but that page is now returning a response status of 200 (success) instead of 404. Was it previously correctly returning a 404 response?"

I just hope there's an easy way to run IE7 and IE8 side-by-side. Opening a virtual machine just to do IE6 testing is a pain.

http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE

http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone

I use that, and it works well. Evolt has archived versions of approximately 7835987345 different browsers.

Now lets hope that avoiding IE8 quirks mode will be intuitive enough to make this announcement pure godsend.

I wonder how this will affect Opera now they've filed a complaint with the European Commission....

Do you think Opera's filing a complaint with the EU against Microsoft had anything to do with this announcement?

No. Better standards support has been on the IE roadmap for a while. They aren't exactly breaking any speed records doing so, but this is consistent with the direction set by IE7, IMHO, and what MS has been publicly saying for quite a while.

Any hope of application/xhtml+xml support for IE 8 as well?

Anyone knows if Firefox passes the same test?

Firefox 3 will, current versions do not.

Opera and Safari have passed the test for a while.

Praise [God|Jesus|Allah/|Turkey Baster]!

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