IE 8 Passes Acid2 Test • Hacker News Board

Re: IE 8 Passes Acid2 Test

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Post by neilc » Thu, Dec 20, 2007, 3:18 AM UTC

Kaizyn wrote: post #9

Do you think Opera's filing a complaint with the EU against Microsoft had anything to do with this announcement?

No. Better standards support has been on the IE roadmap for a while. They aren't exactly breaking any speed records doing so, but this is consistent with the direction set by IE7, IMHO, and what MS has been publicly saying for quite a while.

Re: IE 8 Passes Acid2 Test

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Post by viergroupie » Thu, Dec 20, 2007, 7:10 AM UTC

Praise [God|Jesus|Allah/|Turkey Baster]!

Re: IE 8 Passes Acid2 Test

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Post by tel » Thu, Dec 20, 2007, 7:50 AM UTC

Now lets hope that avoiding IE8 quirks mode will be intuitive enough to make this announcement pure godsend.

Re: IE 8 Passes Acid2 Test

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Post by knarfd » Thu, Dec 20, 2007, 12:04 PM UTC

andrewfong wrote: post #6

I just hope there's an easy way to run IE7 and IE8 side-by-side. Opening a virtual machine just to do IE6 testing is a pain.

http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE

Re: IE 8 Passes Acid2 Test

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Post by edu » Thu, Dec 20, 2007, 1:53 PM UTC

"It looks like an object element that's pointing to a non-existent page (http://www.webstandards.org/404/) should be falling through, but that page is now returning a response status of 200 (success) instead of 404. Was it previously correctly returning a 404 response?"

Re: IE 8 Passes Acid2 Test

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Post by tarkin2 » Thu, Dec 20, 2007, 2:01 PM UTC

I wonder how this will affect Opera now they've filed a complaint with the European Commission....

Re: IE 8 Passes Acid2 Test

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 21, 2007, 11:31 PM UTC

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