IE8 passes Acid2 test ???

Posted on 2007.12.31
Categories: Software; Tagged with: , , , ,

They say that an internal build of Internet Explorer 8 has passed the Acid2 test, a CSS-compatibility testing page from the Web Standards Project, but I question it: is it necessarily so?

It ain’t necessarily so…

The one screenshot we have seen “verifying” this claim is the following PNG image from Microsoft itself:

IE8 on Acid (2)

and I see no third-party verification of this claim. Everyone’s just so optimistic for IE to be standards-compliant that they’ve disregarded Microsoft’s capacity and history of lying. (Example: anti-trust lawsuit of late 1990’s.)

Maybe, just maybe, they’re saying this way ahead of time to generate some hype for their yet non-released product. Maybe, just maybe, the image they’ve published was created or modified on some image-editing program — Photoshop? Maybe, just maybe, they’ve created a basic HTML page that uses the reference rendering that is guaranteed to display properly on ANY modern browser!!!

I’d hate to be like that John C. Dvorak guy from Tech5, but I have to be suspicious of this claim. It’s wild… we see no evidence other than a clearly modified (cropped) screenshot and some words from a guy being paid to work for a monopoly that will do no good to maintain that position (example: compliance with the raised middle finger).

All in all… just be careful when you see news that is too good to be true.

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[...] Frederick J. Ding wrote an interesting post today on IE8 passes Acid2 test ???Here’s a quick excerptThey say that an internal build of Internet Explorer 8 has passed the Acid2 test, a CSS-compatibility testing page from the Web Standards Project, but I question it: is it necessarily so? It ain’t necessarily so… … [...]

Pingback on December 31st, 2007.

[...] Frederick J. Ding wrote an interesting post today on IE8 passes Acid2 test ???Here’s a quick excerptEveryone’s just so optimistic for IE to be standards-compliant that they’ve disregarded Microsoft’s capacity and history of lying. (Example: anti-trust lawsuit of late 1990’s.) Maybe, just maybe, they’re saying this way ahead of time … [...]

Pingback on December 31st, 2007.

[...] Frederick J. Ding wrote an interesting post today on IE8 passes Acid2 test ???Here’s a quick excerptThey say that an internal build of Internet Explorer 8 has passed the Acid2 test, a CSS-compatibility testing page from the Web Standards Project, but I question it: is it necessarily so? It ain’t necessarily so… … [...]

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[...] Frederick J. Ding wrote an interesting post today on IE8 passes Acid2 test ???Here’s a quick excerptThey say that an internal build of Internet Explorer 8 has passed the Acid2 test, a CSS-compatibility testing page from the Web Standards Project, but I question it: is it necessarily so? It ain’t necessarily so… … [...]

Pingback on July 9th, 2008.

[...] 2008.07.09 Categories: Software; Tagged with: Acid2, Acid3, browser, IE, Microsoft, screenshotI was very skeptical back in December 2007 when Microsoft released a PNG image indicating that an internal build of IE8 passed the Acid2 test [...]

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