Wait A Minute…. Did Microsoft Lie?

Sat, Jan 26, 2008

Microsoft announced that IE8 Will Pass the acid2 test, now the’ve announced that to get standards mode you need to add a special meta tag, right then… so the ACID2 test page doesn’t have that meta tag… so it doesnt render the ACID2 page properly… therefore..

IE8 doesnt pass the ACID2 test…. am I right?

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3 Comments For This Post

Caius Durling Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 3:07 am

You are right indeed sir, and I applaud you for pointing that out to me.

Paul Stanton Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 12:02 pm

You’re being overly critical at too early a stage, think of it this way:

We know MS has to support the (horrific) legacy websites out there, which do not support anything but IE and it’s historically shambolic rendering engine(s).

They are also under increasing pressure to support web standards more, both from designers and developers, and also competing browsers.

So, the way it seems to me is MS have said “right, FIRST we’ll get IE8 standards compliant, and pass Acid2, THEN we’ll figure out how we’re not going to ‘break the web’”.

It’s still early days

Jamie Knight Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 2:59 pm

hiya,

I was always under the impression that the ACID 2 was infact a test for malformed CSS, and following the rule on how to handle it… This on the test page leads me to think this:

“Note: Some 827 people (rough estimate, contents may have settled during shipping) have written to point out that the CSS used in the test is invalid. This is deliberate, as a means of exposing the ability of user agents to handle invalid CSS properly.”

So, if this is the case, it makes no difference because without the meta tag it defaults to IE7 / quirks mode anyway….

good point though