Internet Explorer 8 passes the ACID 2 test
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 passes the ACID 2 test.
Yes, you read right. I can't belive it either. All those hours and hours of monkey patching and conditional CSSing will this really be a thing of the past ? This is for me as a hobby and freelancing webdeveloper just plainly - incredible.
Finally M$ seems to have managed it back on the standards path proposed by the Webstandards advocacy group (and the rest of the world). This has to sides of a coin. It's good for webdevelopers but bad for our OSS friends on the browser front. From a quote on the webstanards.org page:
Here are some results of other Browsers regarding this test.
Is there light at the end of the tunnel ?
In their blog post Dean Hachamovitch writes something which gives me a good and then a very bad feeling though.
By all means how can you keep backwards compatibility to something (<= IE7 ) which is plainly just broken ? If Microsoft really takes it serious about dominating the browser market they need to break with the past sorry excuses for a browser. Hey I know I am just critical right? Please don't listen to me, even the guys who are developing this thing said the same. Quote:
It's great though that there is finally something happening about this ! I really hope they can pull this stunt to stay compatible to the total crap^W^Wnice IE5/6/7 tuned pages as this will save a lot of developers more nerves. Otherwise I rather like to forget all about those ugly hacks which I learned over the time for those releases of IE.
Fellow developers beware seems we ought to take this browser ,serious' again ?
Yes, you read right. I can't belive it either. All those hours and hours of monkey patching and conditional CSSing will this really be a thing of the past ? This is for me as a hobby and freelancing webdeveloper just plainly - incredible.
Finally M$ seems to have managed it back on the standards path proposed by the Webstandards advocacy group (and the rest of the world). This has to sides of a coin. It's good for webdevelopers but bad for our OSS friends on the browser front. From a quote on the webstanards.org page:
- ,,This doesn’t necessarily mean that IE8 has fixed all its float oddities, or its hasLayout hilarities. But what it does mean is that there is another browser war, and Microsoft did decide to come.''
Here are some results of other Browsers regarding this test.
Is there light at the end of the tunnel ?
In their blog post Dean Hachamovitch writes something which gives me a good and then a very bad feeling though.
- ,,Standards are a (critical!) means to this end, and we focus on the standards that will help actual, real-world interoperability the most. As a consumer and a developer, I expect stuff to just work, and I also expect backwards compatibility. When I get a new version of my current browser, I expect all the sites that worked before will still work.''
By all means how can you keep backwards compatibility to something (<= IE7 ) which is plainly just broken ? If Microsoft really takes it serious about dominating the browser market they need to break with the past sorry excuses for a browser. Hey I know I am just critical right? Please don't listen to me, even the guys who are developing this thing said the same. Quote:
- ,,We fully recognize that IE is behind the game today in CSS support.''
It's great though that there is finally something happening about this ! I really hope they can pull this stunt to stay compatible to the total crap^W^Wnice IE5/6/7 tuned pages as this will save a lot of developers more nerves. Otherwise I rather like to forget all about those ugly hacks which I learned over the time for those releases of IE.
Fellow developers beware seems we ought to take this browser ,serious' again ?
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Hmm, okay. I'm quite astonished as well. I had to read it twice to believe it... IE is back on the browser war? well it never really left but it was more like being without any teeth to chew. Everyone who knows me, also knows my opinion because of the redmond company. But my opinion is not because Microsoft is bad, but because Microsoft did not do their job very well. If they all of a sudden start developing good software, i for my part will be content with people having their software. They won't ever by my choice i think, but... freedom is also about the freedom to make the choice. If someone chooses to use the Redmond Software and it is a good product with reasonable price they choose... go ahead, i won't bash you about that. My personal taste is different, but as said, it's about the choice. Now for the web-developers side, hell yeah I agree. I think it will save us a lot of headaches not having to deal with IE's br**f*** rendering flaws anymore. And for those of the OSS community now fearing Firefox and co. will loose a lot of market share, be sure they won't. Standards Compilance has never been really influencing the standard users choice of browser. It merely influenced the choice of WebDevelopers and other geeks... and i doubt they will really feel too much of it. It might keep them on track though, which i consider a good thing. Good competition brings better things. I'm really looking forwards to better and (hint @firefox) faster and less memory chewing browsers.