Next Internet Explorer to fail Acid test

[Nomad559]

Next Explorer to fail Acid test

Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 7 browser won't pass a stringent standards test that rivals have embraced.

In its browser blog, Microsoft acknowledged that IE 7 would not pass the Web Standards Project's Acid2 test, which examines a browser's support for W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) recommendations including CSS1 (Cascading Style Sheets), HTML4 and PNG (Portable Network Graphics).

"We will not pass this test when IE7 ships," Chris Wilson, lead program manager for the Web platform in IE, wrote in the IE blog. "We fully recognize that IE is behind the game today in CSS support. We've dug through the Acid2 test and analyzed IE's problems with the test in some great detail, and we've made sure the bugs and features are on our list--however, there are some fairly large and difficult features to implement, and they will not all sort to the top of the stack in IE7."

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Lie said Opera was "very close" to passing Acid2. Apple Computer has already said that its Safari browser passes the test in preliminary builds. The Mozilla Foundation said it was committed to "full support" of Acid2 in its Firefox browser but did not say when it expected to pass the test.

http://secunia.com

[SeanQuinn]

1. Yay for non-IE browsers! nt

[ghostsofgiants]

2. Is anyone at all surprised by this?

[jmowreader]

3. No, and there's a reason why it doesn't

Microsoft can't program.

They keep people from noticing by putting Five Thousand New And Exciting Features in each additional release...even though you only used forty features out of the 382,425 that were in the LAST release.

Is there anyone who actually uses all the things MS Word will do?

[Clintmax]

4. Nope. Go Firefox!!! n/t

[Nomad559]

5. "None" of the browsers

support the Acid2 test at this time.

More Info ... IEBlog

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/07/29/445242.aspx

:)

[Deja Q]

6. Man, I need to learn how to make subject lines more interesting...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3772852