March 11, 2008 at 8:54 am
· Filed under Frustrations, ie8
A lot of us where stunned when rumors surfaced indicating that IE8 passed the Acid2 test. We were even more astonished when screen captures like this one:
Of course some conspiracy theories were formulated but some of us decided to give Microsoft a chance and start celebrating. That was of course until some people started claming that this:
Was the real way that IE8 rendered the Acid2 test. Well people, if you look at the screen shots closely you will see that the first one is using the www while the second one is not. According to IE8’s Team something with their ActiveX and cross domain scripting is causing the error.
In other words, Microsoft is pasing the Acid2 test only when their ActiveX feels like it.
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Jon Zuck wrote @ March 26th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Much as I hate IE, (and I DO hate IE), I believe their team made an insightful choice here. At it’s original location on the webstandards.org, IE 8 DOES pass Acid 2. On the copy of the test at acidtests.org, the objects for the eyes are still being called from webstandards.org. The IE team feels that accepting objects from other domains constituted a security risk, and they might be right.
At any rate, Acid 2 is just a test of certain important CSS properties in certain conditions. Passing the test isn’t my heart’s desire… not having to code differently for different browsers is. And man, what’s the deal with IE 8’s Z-Index?
Carlos wrote @ March 26th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Jon, IE8 doesn’t pass the acid2 test on acidtests.org but it doesn’t pass it on http://webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html#top either because of the www, but I must agree with you that acid2 test is not as important as making a browser that works with the rest of the other browsers, specially your own IE versions.
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