IE8 and Acid2
From Charlie.Huggardlee.Net
As it was claimed that Internet Explorer 8 passes Acid2, I decided to download the beta 1 today after it became public. Interestingly enough, when I try Acid2 on Webstandards.org it seems to pass. However when trying Acid2 from an alternate source or when trying it on a version I fetched using wget, or when using the alternate version without data: urls the eyes do not render properly. Is there something domain specific about Acid2 or is IE 8 Beta1 faking compliance?
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Admittedly IE8 does make a few things render more nicely than IE7 (such as the the tabs on my website), and some things render worse (such as the external link icons on my site) but that's another story.
Update: IE8 apparently does pass Acid2, under certain restrictions. Because of a line in the test, it is subjected to Cross-Domain Scripting restrictions. My copy of Acid2 was edited and now works. See [1] and [2] for more information. Thanks Nathan!
--Charlie Huggard 20:22, 5 March 2008 (CST)
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| Author | Charlie Huggard + |
| Post date | 6 March 2008 02:22 + |
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