I like this article because it is the first one that I’ve seen in a while that doesn’t suck up to internet explorer 8 by talking about how it passes the acid2 test which it doesn’t.

Now, for the sake of argument I’m going to forget about the little ActiveX issue which causes IE8 to not pass the test and go along the lines that it does indeed passes it. Great, now what? Well for starters, is messing up maps, even some with the Emulate IE7 button turned on, security is still an issue and it’s not offering the level of security firefox is offering and it is even breaking it’s own Mircosoft Websites (I’m sure this one will be fixed very soon but it’s funny to point it out).

On top of this Microsoft hasn’t learned from the past and it is creating browser specific innovations which is one of the main reasons their browser sucks inn the first place. To make my point clearer, by adopting technologies that are only available on IE8, Microsoft is doing three things wrong:

1. It’s development team is focusing on the wrong task as they are working to implement this features instead of working to make their browser standard compliant (this website seems to be down but it talked about how Microsoft’s money people were about to drop the idea of making IE8 standards because they thought it was a better investment to offer a set of nifty little features).
2. Is creating more of the so called racists websites.
3. Is creating proprietary CSS, javascript, Ajax, etc that will only work on their browsers. And even if this is sometime good, after all a lot of innovations have come from browsers doing exactly this, the problem lies on that you should follow the rules first, then go and break them but make them open so that everybody can adapt them.

Yes I know it is just a Beta but as I said before, if IE7 was a step forward from IE6, why don’t you just fix what it had wrong instead of creating something completely new that is breaking even more things than IE6? No one knows.