Comments on: Internet Explorer 8 Beta Fails The Acid2 and Acid3 Test http://rutsum.com/internet-explorer-8-beta-fails-the-acid2-and-acid3-test Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:43:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Opera 9.5 Now Passes the Acid3 test - 100%! | RutSum http://rutsum.com/internet-explorer-8-beta-fails-the-acid2-and-acid3-test/comment-page-1#comment-232 Opera 9.5 Now Passes the Acid3 test - 100%! | RutSum Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:45:22 +0000 http://rutsum.com/internet-explorer-8-beta-fails-the-acid2-and-acid3-test#comment-232 [...] 4, which impressed me a lot with its speed and responsiveness. Then came in the Acid3 test, where Firefox 3 Beta 4 passed 7 more tests as compared to Opera 9.5 Beta. This made me determined to drop Opera as my mainstream browser and shift to Firefox 3 as soon as a [...] [...] 4, which impressed me a lot with its speed and responsiveness. Then came in the Acid3 test, where Firefox 3 Beta 4 passed 7 more tests as compared to Opera 9.5 Beta. This made me determined to drop Opera as my mainstream browser and shift to Firefox 3 as soon as a [...]

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]]> By: Apoorv Khatreja http://rutsum.com/internet-explorer-8-beta-fails-the-acid2-and-acid3-test/comment-page-1#comment-180 Apoorv Khatreja Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:30:19 +0000 http://rutsum.com/internet-explorer-8-beta-fails-the-acid2-and-acid3-test#comment-180 @Warren <em><blockquote># re: Why Isn't IE8 Passing Acid2? Wednesday, March 05, 2008 6:55 PM by Ian Hicksoan But if it's failing -- for whatever reason, cross-domain or not -- you should fallback. Hence the current behaviour is still a bug. :-) (BTW why would it be a cross-domain problem? This should be exactly the same as an iframe, which can cross domains fine.)</blockquote> </em> It's a comment posted on the MSDN blog you linked to. @Warren


# re: Why Isn’t IE8 Passing Acid2?
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 6:55 PM by Ian Hicksoan

But if it’s failing — for whatever reason, cross-domain or not — you should fallback. Hence the current behaviour is still a bug. :-)

(BTW why would it be a cross-domain problem? This should be exactly the same as an iframe, which can cross domains fine.)


It’s a comment posted on the MSDN blog you linked to.

]]> By: Warren http://rutsum.com/internet-explorer-8-beta-fails-the-acid2-and-acid3-test/comment-page-1#comment-179 Warren Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:19:21 +0000 http://rutsum.com/internet-explorer-8-beta-fails-the-acid2-and-acid3-test#comment-179 "Moreover, even though Microsoft said in a press release that IE8 will pass the Acid2 test, it doesn’t. It clearly fails even the Acid2 test." Huh? What are you talking about? IE8 Beta 1 passes Acid2. Are you perhaps running the Acid2 test off of http://acid2.acidtests.org/ , instead of the correct URL, http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html ? The former site has an error in the HTML that causes the test to fail. Microsoft discusses it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/05/why-isn-t-ie8-passing-acid2.aspx “Moreover, even though Microsoft said in a press release that IE8 will pass the Acid2 test, it doesn’t. It clearly fails even the Acid2 test.”

Huh? What are you talking about? IE8 Beta 1 passes Acid2. Are you perhaps running the Acid2 test off of http://acid2.acidtests.org/ , instead of the correct URL, http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html ? The former site has an error in the HTML that causes the test to fail. Microsoft discusses it here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/05/why-isn-t-ie8-passing-acid2.aspx

]]> By: Uncool Shitty http://rutsum.com/internet-explorer-8-beta-fails-the-acid2-and-acid3-test/comment-page-1#comment-178 Uncool Shitty Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:14:16 +0000 http://rutsum.com/internet-explorer-8-beta-fails-the-acid2-and-acid3-test#comment-178 Microsoft is Microsoft. Why follow standards when you can set your own? Meanwhile us Linux users suffer. By the way, try using the version of Konqueror that comes with KDE4 (must be 4.something, I guess). That one uses WebKit, supposedly one of the most standards compliant rendering engine out there. Or install Safari on Windows and take the test. Firefox 3 Beta 3 gets 58/100. Ugh. Opera 46/100. Ugh-er. Microsoft is Microsoft. Why follow standards when you can set your own? Meanwhile us Linux users suffer.

By the way, try using the version of Konqueror that comes with KDE4 (must be 4.something, I guess). That one uses WebKit, supposedly one of the most standards compliant rendering engine out there. Or install Safari on Windows and take the test.

Firefox 3 Beta 3 gets 58/100. Ugh. Opera 46/100. Ugh-er.

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