IE8 and the Acid2 test

[mendhak]

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/200...milestone.aspx

As a team, we’ve spent the last year heads down working hard on IE8. Last week, we achieved an important milestone that should interest web developers. IE8 now renders the “Acid2 Face” correctly in IE8 standards mode.

[Kasracer]

I was very shocked when I heard the news. Firefox 3 doesn't even pass 100% of the time (it depends on the default font setting... go figure).

I was worried Microsoft had the Acid 2 test as a sub project and only worked to get it to work but it sounds like that isn't the case (i'd hope it wouldn't be anyway).

Fyi, Opera did it first followed by Webkit (Safari/Konquerer)

[penagate]

Meh. It's a contrived test, and I'm worried that they've sacrificed more important work for the sake of being able to say they pass Acid2.

I guess this means that they've rewritten the rendering engine though, which was imperative.

Firefox 3 doesn't even pass 100% of the time (it depends on the default font setting... go figure).

I thought that was by design.

[Kasracer]

I thought that was by design.

No idea. Should that even affect the test? Opera and Webkit (Safari / Konquerer) seem unaffected with a default font change.

[penagate]

I know it's supposed to break when you scroll. I can't remember about font sizes though. I'll have a look on bugzilla.

[mendhak]

Maybe they've hardcoded the Acid2 URL to work with a specific rendering method.

[RobDog888]

They should really just scrap the whole thing and start fresh so its based upon a solid foundation. Placing patches upon patches is not the best idea but Im glad that they are working on 8 so soon after 7 and not letting the competition gain so much market share.