Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] IE7 to fail "Acid Test"

date posted 1st August 2005 21:34

On 1 Aug 2005 20:45:04 -0000, Martin Kellie [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote=
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> For those that are interested:
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> http://news.com.com/Next+Explorer+to+fail+Acid+test/2100-1032_3-5813897.h=
tml?part=3Drss&tag=3D5813897&subj=3Dnews
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Well spotted. Most interesting bit is at the end:

"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."

Both Safari and Konqueror are passing the test in development builds,
but it will be some time before there are actual shipping releases
that are compliant. None of the other browsers has passed yet and IE
probably won't pass for another 2-3 years, if ever considering the
recent pace of IE development. There aren't any publically available
Acid2-compliant browsers at all yet, bit of a sad state of affairs for
web standards.

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